Pre-employment skills testing
Pre-employment skills testing gives hiring managers additional information to consider when making key recruitment decisions that supports anecdotal evidence provided by candidates throughout other elements of the selection process.
The HR Resourcing team have partnered with skills testing platform Skillsarena to enable pre-employment skills testing for shortlisted candidates.
A wide range of assessments covering many role types are available, some examples are:
- Pre-built skills assessments
- Microsoft Office/IT Literacy simulation tests
- Literacy and Numeracy
- Data Entry
- In-Tray Exercises
- Personality Profiling
- ‘Create your own’
- Include your own questions or scenarios for candidates to respond to.
If you choose to use a skills test from the Skillsarena platform, there is no cost to individual schools/departments (the majority of tests available are included in our subscription and are therefore would not be chargeable to schools/departments. There are some additional bespoke tests/assessments that are chargeable, however would not be arranged without prior discussion and approval).
The HR team will manage the test administration process (some in-tray exercises require scoring locally due to differing requirements by organisation or role or if a ‘create your own’ exercise is developed).
Please note:
Sufficient time would need to be built into the process to allow administration of the tests and a reasonable amount of time for candidates to complete the assessments prior to attending an interview.
A user-friendly report can be provided to the hiring manager for review, containing candidate scores.
Links to some relevant test overviews are available below. The full test directory can be found on the Skillsarena website.
Please speak to a member of the HR Resourcing Team via HRAssistant@ljmu.ac.uk or 0151 351 9555 to discuss potential tests for your next selection process.
