Recruiting high-quality tech talent can be a time-intensive and difficult task. This is true whether you’re a large or a small company, although your challenge points might be a bit different.
If you work for a small company and need to hire a tech position, but have no tech background inhouse yet, how will you adequately screen and assess a candidate’s technical skills? You know you’re an ace at evaluating soft skills and if they’ll fit in with the company’s culture. But evaluating technical skills? Not so much. This presents a real challenge. How will you know if any of the applicants has the skill set to do the job?
If you’re a large company, you probably have numerous recruitment processes going at the same time. You long for a way to make the process more efficient. You’d also like the ability to fairly evaluate each candidate’s skills while simultaneously identifying and filtering out those that aren’t quite up to the challenges of the position yet. And then there’s your dream of finding that hidden talent. That absolutely brilliant person overlooked by other companies because they were evaluated on their resume alone. Imagine if you found that person. How brilliant would that be?!
If you identified with even one of the situations above, then you’re going to love the new Landing.jobs tech assessments feature.
So, what is this new feature, and how can it help streamline the hiring process? It is a library of online technical tests. Depending on the position for which you’re hiring, you choose the assessment you want potential applicants to take. The challenge gets added to your company’s recruitment process. Then, the applicant completes the test, and an accuracy rate, scored as a percentage between 0–100%, is generated. Both you and the applicant receive the results. As if that by itself wasn’t fabulous enough, you get a bonus feature!
For each applicant that takes a challenge, you receive an extensive report. The report shows not only their accuracy percentage but also a description of every single step they took to arrive at their final, submitted test. It’s a bit like getting into the candidate’s head and seeing their reasoning process at work. These reports, not only provide valuable insights about the candidate, but they also work great as a starting point for a subsequent technical interview. Oh, and did we mention that it’s free?
So, let’s break it down and look at all the advantages offered. These new skills assessments:
- Enable you to identify skills beyond resumes.
- Provide you with an extra data point to evaluate and compare candidates.
- Are objective and reduce bias during the recruitment process. This serves to create a consistent hiring bar.
- It can be used as a central part of the hiring process by discussing the candidate’s reasoning during the technical interview.
- Increase efficiencies in the recruitment and hiring processes by immediately eliminating unqualified candidates. This reduces the non-productive time for your developers that would otherwise be spent interviewing weak candidates.
- Essentially automates the screening step of the recruitment process life cycle resulting in qualified applicants being identified and hired faster.
- Allow non-tech companies to hire tech staff confidently they would otherwise be unable to evaluate from the technical skills standpoint adequately
- Reduce workloads of recruitment/human resources staff associated with hiring, allowing for the “saved” time to be spent on other tasks and projects.
- Simplify the remote hiring processes.
We think Marielle, an HR Manager at Watermelon Technologies, summed up her experience using our new feature quite nicely:
“It went very smooth and the results report was clear, took a lot of work from our hands and especially convenient when someone is abroad!”
These tech assessments are the perfect tool to add to your recruitment process. It will help you hire the right person with the right skills faster while simultaneously reducing your workload. And at the end of the day, any process that can be streamlined and simplified is a win.
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