Pre-employment assessments for efficient hiring in the Philippines
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’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 organizations in Philippines streamline their hiring processes.
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
P: Psychometric tests help organizations in the Philippines assess personality, cognitive ability, motivation, and workplace fit. Widely used across industries such as BPO, retail, banking, and healthcare, they support data-backed hiring and talent decisions.
Behavioural tests
Behavioral tests evaluate how candidates respond to workplace situations, helping Philippine employers assess decision-making, teamwork, adaptability, and customer orientation. Commonly used for hiring and leadership development across service-driven sectors.
Aptitude tests
Aptitude tests measure abilities such as logical reasoning, numerical skills, verbal understanding, and problem-solving. Organizations in the Philippines use them to identify job readiness and select candidates who can perform effectively in role-specific tasks.
Coding tests
Coding tests help Philippine employers assess programming knowledge, problem-solving, and technical proficiency for software and IT roles. Frequently used by technology firms, startups, and digital teams, they evaluate real-world coding ability and job readiness.
Domain tests
Domain tests measure role-specific expertise in areas such as finance, sales, customer support, engineering, or healthcare. Employers in the Philippines use them to validate functional knowledge and ensure candidates meet industry or job requirements.
Communication skills tests
Communication skills tests assess verbal, written, listening, and workplace communication abilities. Widely used in the Philippines, especially across BPO, customer service, and corporate roles, they help identify candidates who can communicate clearly and effectively.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
