Online General Aptitude Test for assessing suitability and intelligence of potential hires
Ensure successful hiring decisions, streamline recruiting processes, and build talented and diverse teams to drive organizational success. The Online General Aptitude Test by Mercer | Mettl evaluates candidates' potential, abilities, skills, and aptitudes. The test helps recruiters go beyond the resumes, qualifications, and experience of candidates and assess their potential and suitability for specific job profiles.
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Aptitude
Easy
Moderate
60 minutes
48 questions
Finance and accounting roles
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Inside this General Aptitude Assessment
A General Aptitude Test is a reliable way for recruiters to determine the suitability of prospective candidates for job roles. These tests also help streamline an organization’s recruitment process by effectively screening candidates and weeding out unsuitable applicants before the first interview round, which also helps reduce the hiring time. A General Aptitude Test can also help determine if the values of the candidates are in alignment with the importance of the organization.
The General Aptitude Test by Mercer| Mettl is a comprehensive assessment designed to analyze candidates' ability to apply logic for solving complex problems, their propensity to learn, and their ability to implement their skills and knowledge to specific tasks. Mercer | Mettl’s Online General Aptitude Test provides recruiters actionable insights about candidates and their learning agility, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. The test can help organizations make data-backed hiring decisions by assisting recruiters to identify and hire top talent for open positions. Apart from pre-employment screening, the General Aptitude Test by Mercer | Mettl can also be utilized to identify skills gaps in an organization and determine the strengths and areas for improvement of existing employees to build tailored learning and development programs that can effectively address these issues. Some job roles include education roles such as teachers and instructors; technical roles such as engineering, IT, and software development; finance and accounting; marketing; sales; healthcare roles such as nursing and medical technicians; administrative and clerical roles; and customer service.
Overview
An objective and unbiased assessment of the skills and aptitude of candidates can help recruiters successfully mitigate the risks of an unsuitable recruit. Today, organizations require candidates who possess innate skills to succeed in their respective job roles, which is a need that cannot be assessed based on candidates' qualifications and past experiences. It has become crucial for recruiters and hiring managers to ascertain the suitability of candidates for specific job roles. Candidates with strong aptitudes are adaptable to changes, can quickly learn new concepts, and can navigate a dynamically evolving work environment.
A General Aptitude Assessment is adequate for determining candidates' natural talent and innate abilities, like critical thinking, numerical reasoning, problem-solving, and verbal communication skills. These tests can help organizations identify candidates with a strong aptitude for welcoming challenging roles and responsibilities, requiring less supervision and training, and possessing a penchant for success in specific job roles.
The Online General Aptitude Test by Mercer |Mettl provides recruiters critical insights into candidates' cognitive abilities. Curated by seasoned subject matter experts, the test evaluates candidates for a range of skills, like numerical ability, abstract reasoning, critical thinking, and attention to detail, which are skills required for succeeding in several job roles. Mercer | Mettl’s General Aptitude Test offers a comprehensive overview of candidates' strengths, aptitudes, and weaknesses to support recruiters in making informed hiring decisions.
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General Aptitude Test competency framework
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General Aptitude Assessment competencies under scanner
General Aptitude Test
Competencies:
Under this section, candidates are required to showcase their proficiency in numerical ability. The questions in this section cover various related topics, including profit and loss, ratio and proportion, speed and distance, averages, etc.
This section of the General Aptitude Assessment by Mercer | Mettl evaluates candidates' ability to comprehend and analyze extensive data. The section contains questions based on data represented using graphs and tables.
This section of the General Aptitude Test assesses the ability of candidates to work with logical systems, identify patterns, and solve problems. The questions in this section are designed to evaluate candidates' capacity to understand complex information and recognize connections without concrete examples.
Under this section, candidates must display their ability to collect, process, and analyze data to accurately interpret the information provided, identify patterns and trends, and draw conclusions for complex problems. The section covers directions, blood relations, linear arrangements, and coding-decoding questions.
This section has been designed to determine the ability of candidates to evaluate arguments, recognize assumptions, and draw conclusions based on the given information.
This section of the General Aptitude Test evaluates the verbal ability of candidates based on questions that cover a range of topics, including sentence correction, sentence completion, identifying errors, reading comprehension, and fill-in-the-blanks.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Can we customize the General Aptitude Test report to include specific analyses?
Yes. In the past, we have been able to customize the reports of our Online General Aptitude Test based on the client's requirements. For more information and assistance with your request, please contact Mercer | Mettl for tailor-made solutions.
2. Can we benchmark applicants using an internal sample set for the General Aptitude Test?
Yes. The General Aptitude Test by Mercer | Mettl can be tailored to recruit the right candidate for specific job profiles, which means that the benchmarking for the test can be based on custom sample sets. Please write to Mercer | Mettl for support.
