A New Day for Assessments in Hiring [Webinar Recap]

The world’s most successful companies use pre-hire assessments.  That's not anecdotal: 85% of Aberdeen's “Best in Class” companies use assessments to identify high potential candidates, compared to 54% in all others. 

Last week, we hosted a webcast with HR.com examining how advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are encouraging HR leaders to fundamentally reimagine how they assess their candidates.

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Over the past several months, we’ve worked with HR.com to create benchmark data for this time-tested screening tool. In our survey of nearly 600 HR professionals, we’ve received deep insight into what is working - and what is not. 

While it’s obvious that some things are working, it is equally obvious that some things are not - and this is where artificial intelligence comes into play.

Assessments Benchmarking: What’s Working

Dr. Mondragon began with an overview of what’s working. Namely:

• 89% of respondents said their assessment increases Quality of Hire
• 66% said it accurately predicts future performance
• 67% said it is an effective screening method for volume

Interestingly, we also found that longer assessments were more likely to receive a high rating from HR professionals. From an I-O Psychology perspective, Mondragon explained, this makes sense: the more data (in this case, closed-ended questions) you can draw from, the more accurate your assessments will be. For the same reason standardized tests like the SAT are not 10 questions long, the best pre-hire assessments require a substantial time commitment from candidates. 

Unfortunately, longer tests also encourage more candidates to drop out of the hiring process. 

What’s Not Working

Overall, only 26% of respondents saw their candidates consistently completing their assessment. Almost the same percentage of respondents (19%) reported that only 0-25% of their candidates were completing it. 

1 in 5 companies saw almost all their candidates drop out at the assessment stage.

Since your best candidates are probably already employed, it doesn’t make sense to make them put them through a selection process that encourages high rates of dropout. The solution is to turn an existing, low dropout, candidate-friendly screening tool into a valid, scientific assessment. And this is where we apply artificial intelligence. 

Learn how artificial intelligence can turn a video interview into a valid, scientific assessment by watching the full webinar:

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You’ll get the inside scoop on the challenges other organizations are facing with their pre-hire assessments, and find out the answers to questions like:

• Has the legality of assessments been challenged?
• Does your physical appearance matter in a video/AI-based assessment?
• How does AI work for evaluating people with disabilities like a stroke or visual impairment?
• How do you create job profiles for building an AI-based assessment?
• How does AI account for different cultures, countries, and languages?