Understanding What Innovative Quantitative Assessment Tools Are

Posted by Wild Noodle Corporation on December 6th, 2019

A career in human resources offers plenty of opportunities for growth, and even if you break into the industry with only a degree and a basic skill set to offer, you can climb the ranks with specialized training, experience, and higher education. Some successfully shift into a career in human resources even if they come from different fields, using their years of experience as leverage for higher positions. And thanks to quantitative assessment tools, having a career in human resource or recruitment only gets better. 

Hiring managers often prefer applicants already aligned for the job, and through such tools, they have the opportunity to give somewhat of a customized assessment for each individual candidate. For instance, if a company is looking for a programmer, the tool will provide an assessment test that will determine the candidate’s programming abilities. Since the test is bespoke, its result will show the applicant’s ability to solve problems, employ various programming techniques that are meant to produce functional and efficient programs, as well as their ability to learn quickly. 

This type of quantitative assessment allows hiring managers, recruiters, or human resource officers to zero in on the best candidates based on their capabilities. More often than not, tools for quantitative measurements are able to give metrics that show how well candidates respond to the assessment based on their reaction, behavior, learning, and eventual result. These make recruitment so much easier since the tools allow candidates to be “sifted” before they are lined up for interviews. No time is wasted since only those who are right for the job are left to interview. Finally, when they sign the offer sheet, the assurance is there that they are, indeed, fit for the demands of the job. 

What is great about quantitative assessment tools is that these are designed based exactly on what a company is looking for in a candidate. These tools have a large inventory of skills assessments that are ready to use as is. It can also be customized so recruiters and hiring managers can add questions and skill sets that are specific to what a company is looking for, or remove irrelevant questions and skill sets. 

Such an assessment tool is a godsend for companies who endeavor to run their processes smoothly. Hence, if you own a business, investing in one will prove to be a cost-efficient move for you.

About the Author:

Wild Noodle Corporation develops educational and recruitment software that provide tools and services for the companies and recruiters to attract and assess the best software developers, predictably and cost-effectively. It does this by running competitions which attract top technical talent, working with companies to promote their brand and job opportunities to the audience, providing quantitative assessments of candidates, and integrating employer feedback with machine learning to better predict job performance, pre-hire. Its Herbert programming challenge has been used successfully with over 10K users on over 200K tests, and its assessment score is proven to be well correlated with job success.