Pre Employment Testing - Learning Its Types

Posted by Natasha Ferguson on December 10th, 2019

An employee health screening is defined by a range of checks and tests that help identify risks to health and improve overall well being among staff. It helps in benefitting to both the employees and the organisations. This helps in knowing the present health status of the employee as employees are the backbone of a company, their health is all that an organisation needs to think about. 

If a company  places more impact on the health and wellbeing awareness, it will make his own company more strong as it will have the strongest of workforce. These things make sense as an ill environment is subjected to failure and negativity. When a company really cares for his employees, it will financial boost the overall health of the company. In today’s world, it has become an utmost important thing for an organisation  to get the health checkup for employees done at the time of hiring and on an annual basis. 

Pre-employment tests and assessments includes the basic screening investigations needed to determine the candidate's medical fitness. 

What are the benefits of Pre-employment checkup

• It ensures safety at workplace

When you hire a new candidate, you want to make sure that the new employee is free from all kinds of hazardous diseases that might impact other staff. Such thing is really important as the damaged workflow can severely affect the financial growth of the company. Since, the company’s financial growth depends upon the employees hard work and dedication, every member needs to be fit. Pre-employment checkup is especially required in health and safety sensitive jobs such as driving, piloting, working in automation etc. 

• It maintains health record

A Pre employment health checkup forms all the health related data against which the future health status of an employee can be compared. The existing medical conditions are identified including lifestyle and contagious diseases which can easily have an adverse effect on the employee plus the entire staff. 

• It assures productivity and efficiency

No one can work in a diseased prone environment. These tests will make sure that the new candidate is free from medical conditions which can affect his productivity when he starts working in the office. If the candidate has a contagious disease, it can heavily affect the entire office. Every company knows the importance of keeping healthy employees and hence for them pre employment health checkup becomes a significant part of a company’s rule. The efficiency test is also conducted in a way to see if the candidate can perform the task without failing all the time. It definitely has to do with the medical history of the candidate. Here’s a brief overview of pre-employment testing. 

Other than health assessment, you are supposed to undergo various tests which will describe your skills and other abilities. Here’s what they are: 

What are the types of employment tests? 

Employment test is done on the basis of which kind of job the candidate is appointed for, what can they do or which task they need to perform. 

• Personality test
  

The personality test is done to see which skills or traits the person can take up in certain conduct. The test will determine if the person is fit for the job. The personality test tries to see if the employee is honest with the company and he can perform the task like an ideal employee. Through this test the organisation can know its employees very well. 

• Talent Assessment Tests
  

This test is done to know the job performance of the new candidate. It focuses more on the potential skills and abilities. It is although different from the test which sees for skills. This test will ensure if the candidate is suitable for the job once he is hired. 

• Cognitive Tests
  

This test is performed to know the cognitive abilities of the employee. In this, the company would like to see how you perform in the areas of memory,  reasoning, perceptual speed and skills in reading comprehension and arithmetic. In plain language, your true intelligence will be counted. 

• Emotional Intelligence Testing
  

This test helps in identifying if the candidate has a strong control over his emotions and feelings. Strong emotional intelligence is required for most of the jobs. As a strong emotional employee can work effortlessly no matter how harsh life he is leading. He will have full control over his thoughts and how he performs in his work. The way an individual carries his emotion highly impacts his health as well. Therefore the candidate must have to go through healthcare pre-employment tests as well. 

• Pre-Employment Physical Exams
  

If the company hires employees to work in a dangerous environment, the candidate must have to go through a full physical examination. This test is also done to check if the hired employee have the stamina to do the required job. 

• Physical Ability Tests
  

This test measures the physical ability of the candidate. If he is required to do a particular task which requires strength of specific muscles, he has to undergo through this test. 

• Drug Tests
  

A drug addict individual is of no use to the company. Despite his abilities, he can never perform smoothly and efficiently with the company. Hence, this test plays an important role at the time of hiring an employee. They will ask for urine drug test, alcohol drug test or hair drug test. Alcohol test will help in determining if the individual is currently intoxicated. 

• English Proficiency Tests
  

In certain jobs, your english fluency is judged and they highly look into the matter if the individual’s first language is not english.