Online Assessment & Gamification

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Online Assessment

Online assessments are standardized tests used by companies to evaluate candidates' skills and knowledge during hiring.

Gamification

Gamification is a growing hiring trend that adds game-like elements to interviews, making them more engaging and promoting diverse hiring.

What is an Online Assessment?

These are standardized tests that companies use to evaluate a candidate's skills, knowledge, and abilities before or during the interview process. These assessments are typically conducted online using specialized software or platforms.

This section will explore the different online assessment types and keys to success. Click on any of the following categories to learn more:

Introduction to Online Assessments

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It's highly likely in today's job market that you will face an online assessment during the interview process. To be prepared, it's important to understand why companies use these types of evaluations and when to expect one.

Aptitude Tests

These tests are designed to assess a candidate's inherent abilities and potential to succeed in a particular role. They often focus on traits and skills that are essential for performing the job effectively, such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and numerical reasoning.

Personality Tests & Situational Judgment Tests

Personality tests and situational judgment tests are commonly used in job interviews to assess a candidate's fit with the company culture and their potential to excel in a specific role. Employers want to know your personality type and work ethic to decide if you will be a good fit for their team.

In the video to the left, we will explore the types of test you might face, and end with our Golden Rules of personality tests.

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Gamification: When Hiring Meets Gaming

Gamification in the interview process is a growing trend that involves incorporating game-like elements into the hiring process to make it more engaging, interactive, and effective for both candidates and recruiters. It prides itself on being an unbiased method to filter candidates and helps promote diverse hiring.

This section will introduce you to gamification in the interview process:

Have you ever experienced gamification in an interview process? There are a lot of benefits to this style of filtering candidates, which we explain in the following video.

Pymetrics is an online assessment platform, recently acquired by Harver, that uses mini-games to evaluate 91 cognitive and emotional traits. In this video, we’ll explain the basics and walk through a few examples.

This PDF serves as a continuation of the introduction. It provides a detailed breakdown of each game. This will help you better understand what to expect and how to approach the assessment.

Interested in working at any of these top brands?
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