Why Use Employee Assessments

Historically, employers have depended on resumes, references and interviews as sources of information for making hiring decisions. In practice, these sources have proved inadequate for consistently selecting good employees. Ninety five percent of your applicants will “exaggerate” to get the job and most hiring decisions will be made in haste during the first 5 minutes of an interview. Because of this 66% or your new hires with be disappointments in the first year.

When selecting people for promotion, otherwise excellent employees have too often been miscast into roles that they could not perform satisfactorily and the “one size fits all” approach in training has failed to product the desired results. As a result two of three employees would rather work somewhere else and one of three business will be sued over an employment issue.

Clearly, an essential ingredient in making “people decisions” has been missing from the formula. Turnover costs thousands for every departing employee and studies have shown eighty percent of employee turnover is avoidable. It makes sense in today’s working environment to use every tool available to make your hiring choices. Many companies now spend extra time and money when it comes to hiring, coaching and training employees. They do background checks, check references, do drug testing and use employee assessments in this process. They realize the importance of assessing new and existing employees.