Pre-employment tests for a skilled workforce
Hire and retain the right talent with focused pre-employment tests and simulations by Mercer | Mettl
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What are pre-employment tests?
Mercer | Mettl’s pre-employment assessments holistically measure key competencies and skills of candidates. The exhaustive library of scientifically designed personality, cognitive, behavioral, technical, communication skills, and coding assessments helps hire the right fit.
Identify, screen and hire the right talent without bias
Our pre-employment assessments are designed to comprehensively evaluate personality traits, cognitive ability, behavioural tendencies, coding skills, and domain knowledge.
Evaluate candidates at scale
Robust and scalable platform to deliver seamless assessments
Superior proctoring support
AI-powered and human proctoring mechanisms to ensure secure testing
Hire graduates and experienced talent
An impressive library of tests to assess diverse skills, personalities and abilities
In-depth reports for smarter hiring decisions
Actionable and in-depth reports to support intelligent hiring decisions.
Seamless integration with ATS
Easily integrate with major ATS' to deliver immersive, secure assessments
Increased hiring efficiency
Accelerate efficiency of your hiring decisions by assessing the right fit candidate
Measure key skills and abilities needed to succeed in different job roles
Personality and behavioural fit
Evaluate characteristic patterns and behaviour fit to support quality hiring decisions
Key cognitive abilities
Measure a candidate's problem-solving abilities and potential to learn in a job role
Domain and coding skills
Assess functional job skills of candidates with a vast range of assessments and simulators
Communication and leadership skills
Seamlessly assess spoken and written communication skills of candidates
Power your workplace productivity using pre-employment test
Mercer | Mettl has a comprehensive collection of over 150,000 questions covering more than 300 skills, providing effective pre-employment evaluations and assessing their suitability for specific roles for recruitment purposes.
Psychometric tests
In addition to psychometric tests, Mercer | Mettl’s offerings encompass critical thinking assessments, abstract reasoning assessments, logical reasoning assessments, managerial potential assessments, and sales potential assessments, facilitating informed hiring decisions.
Behavioural tests
In combination with behavioral tests, domain-specific assessments, like the Mercer | Mettl learning agility assessment, Mercer | Mettl project manager assessment, Mercer | Mettl assessment for sales managers, and psychometric test for leadership showcase candidates' overall growth potential.
Aptitude tests
Mercer | Mettl’s aptitude tests cater to different hiring scenarios, including graduate hiring, experienced hiring, and talent development. These tests evaluate candidates' aptitude and capabilities in various domains, enabling organizations to hire the right talent.
Coding tests
Mercer | Mettl’s tests cover a wide range of technical skills, including front-end development, back-end development, full-stack development, database development, data science, DevOps, and quality assurance to assess candidates' coding proficiency.
Domain tests
Mercer | Mettl’s domain tests focus on specific industries or functional areas, such as financial services, information technology, marketing, sales, customer support, and human resources, evaluating candidates' knowledge and expertise in their respective domains.
Communication skills tests
Mercer | Mettl’s communication skills tests assess spoken English, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, and writing skills in a simulated environment. These tests enable organizations to evaluate candidates' language and communication skills.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1 What are pre-hire recruitment tests?
Pre-employment recruitment tests or pre-hiring tests are a standardized approach to collecting the necessary information about job applicants and crosschecking whether the information matches their hands-on skills. Many organizations employ a pre-employment screening test to design a more effective talent development strategy.
2 What are the advantages of employment pre-screening tests?
The advantages of employment pre-screening tests include improving the quality of hires, enhancing recruitment efficiency, reducing turnaround time, making data-driven hiring decisions and providing development paths to new hires.
3 What are the different types of pre-employment evaluation tests?
The different types of hiring assessments are personality tests, behavioral assessments, cognitive ability tests, coding tests, role-based tests, remote work assessments, high-potential identification, learning agility assessments, language proficiency tests, background checks and drug tests.
4 Are pre-employment hiring tests effective?
Pre-employment hiring assessments are significantly beneficial for human resource professionals as they allow them to make evidence-based hiring decisions. When used with psychometric, cognitive, technical and other screening tools, online pre-employment testing reduces the turnaround time and enables organizations to shortlist top talent efficiently.
5 How can I take Mercer | Mettl’s hiring test?
To take Mercer | Mettl’s recruitment tests, click on the test link received via email. Keep your identity card ready. For authentication, the system will prompt you to take a picture that will be verified against your ID card. Once the invigilator approves your registration, click on the test link and follow the instructions to take the test.
