Archive for September, 2011

How Tough is Finding a Job?

At Assessment Day, we are well aware that finding a job is not as easy for everyone. Not only is finding a specific job that is likely to stimulate and edify you going to be hard, but once you find those few rare potential careers, you are likely to be up against a huge amount of competition.

We also know that there are ways to help you in such a situation. From visiting us to take a free psychometric test in preparation for the interview process to actively expanding your experience and qualifications, everything from the skills you have to the way in which you conduct yourself in an interview will make a major difference to how easy or hard it is to get a job.

Therefore, how hard it is to find the right job will be different for everybody. With more and more people leaving university with strong degrees, the competition for every single job is tougher than ever and standing out is more and more important. The more you can do to give yourself the edge, the easier it will be to get your foot in the door.

As such, more and more companies are actively using online aptitude tests to more easily distinguish between otherwise extremely similar candidates. By having as much experience and as many qualifications as possible, and by practicing the likes of numerical reasoning tests you are far more likely to look right on paper and prove yourself to be right in practice too.

The Fastest Way to Find the Right Candidate

When you are looking to fill a vacancy, you are likely to be faced with a wide variety of applicants. Finding out which one is going to be the perfect candidate is not always easy since loyalties towards those already in the company along with the ability of other applicants to ‘blag’ their way through interviews can all mean that the true perfect candidate can be totally overlooked.

Seeing someone’s ability within your own company may well blind you as to whether or not they are suitable for a different role, and understanding if certain skills can be utilised in other areas can be difficult.

In both situations, online psychometric tests can help. These tests can instantly help you to see past any bravado or certain gifts for the gab to see the core potential of an individual. Whilst someone may have the perfect skills to see them excel in a role, they might also get nervous in interviews which could obscure their potential to those who are conducting an interview. The right online tests can establish everything from their levels of abstract reasoning to simply how their personality is likely to fit in with your current team.

Using the right tests will help to put candidates more at ease and remove a great deal of the stress of a normal interview environment, allowing you to see far more effectively just how they perform, whether you need to understand their skills of verbal reasoning or just how well they are likely to interact with others.

What Will an Aptitude Test Analyse?

So, you’ve been told that you need to take an aptitude test for a job you have applied for. If you have never taken such a test, you are probably not going to know what to expect. So just what are these tests used to establish?

Firstly, it is worth noting that not all tests are going to be the same. Whilst a great many will be used to discover more about a candidate’s personality traits along with their strengths and weaknesses, other tests can be far more specific, focusing on anything from numerical reasoning to contextual understanding.

They can be very specific in the way that they are used, allowing employers to very succinctly gauge a candidate’s suitability to a specific role and they can also simply be used to work out how easy a person will fit into a certain work environment.

For those who have never taken such tests before, it can be very beneficial to find out exactly what is going to be in store. At Assessment Day, we offer you the chance to practice psychometric tests to understand exactly what you are likely to be faced with. Not only will practicing such a test help you to feel more relaxed by removing uncertainty but practicing such tests can also simply help you to get better at them too.

By being prepared for such a test, the levels of stress and anxiety on the day are likely to be vastly reduced meaning that not only are you likely to better at any test, but also that you will be more relaxed during any interview you are given too.