{"id":26778,"date":"2014-04-22T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/?p=26778"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:09:48","slug":"insights-from-delivering-150000-online-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/insights-from-delivering-150000-online-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Insights From Delivering 150,000+ Online Assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While delivering 150,000+ online assessments in 2013, we have received a lot of feedback from customers and assessment takers alike.\u00a0For those who have taken online assessments (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1r3dJT8\">Assestant<\/a>), it has of course, been the primary<b><i> \u2018convenience factor\u2019<\/i><\/b> that stands out. The online delivery saves quite a lot of travel, time and effort; not to mention the otherwise disturbance of their work schedule.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/product\/candidate-assessment\/\">assess candidates<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u2018Every other company is in the business of talent. The conundrum of acquiring talent rests in identifying them first hand!\u2019<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Whether we like it or not, the life cycle of a typical \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/category\/talent-assessments\/\"><b><i>talent<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u201d revolves around the word \u2018<b><i>performance.\u2019<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Online assessments are viewed as <b><i>the right first step<\/i><\/b> for the start of performance based hiring versus pure judgment based hiring.<\/p>\n<p>In a classic recruitment funnel, consisting of six broad processes, it is usually found that the top four consume a lot of effort and cost. When an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/product\/candidate-assessment\/\">automated online assessment<\/a> is added to the top, the lifecycle of the recruitment shifts to rightly focus on the bottom and brings value.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/insights-from-delivering-150000-online-assessments\/employment-assessments\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26845\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26845\" alt=\"Employment Assessments\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments.png\" width=\"897\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments.png 897w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments-600x283.png 600w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments-768x362.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments-740x349.png 740w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Employment-Assessments-200x94.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A use case being a company wanting to recruit five Java programmers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advertises and collects about 500 <i>applications (P1)<\/i> with resumes.<\/li>\n<li><i>Initial screening<\/i> (P2) to short list potential candidates for contacting.<\/li>\n<li>To test their knowledge level \/ skill \/ availability (P3), a bunch of company recruiters start making calls to about 50 candidate and select 25 candidates for interview (P4)<\/li>\n<li>These candidates go through technical &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/dont-hire-without-the-hr-culture-interview\/\">HR interview<\/a> (P5)<\/li>\n<li>And between P2 to P4 several days are wasted; not to mention that there is no authentic data or ranking to enable P5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, simply, when an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/product\/candidate-assessment\/\">online assessment<\/a> is included, there is an authentic report (with ranking) to conduct technical and HR interview. Whether the person selected is strong in core java or JDBC or JSP, now we have data to decide. For example, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1r3dJT8\">Assestant<\/a>\u00a0report:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/insights-from-delivering-150000-online-assessments\/online-employment-assessment\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26847\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26847\" alt=\"Online Employment Assessment\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment.png 800w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment-511x600.png 511w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment-768x901.png 768w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment-740x869.png 740w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment-255x300.png 255w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Online-Employment-Assessment-200x234.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior HR Manager Mr. P.R.Srinivasan\u00a0of ETA ASCON Group,\u00a0a multinational company, says of these online employments assessments, \u2018<i>We are equally happy to mention that your system is user friendly and within no time we were able to get the shortlisted candidates in the required format.\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>The Employment Assessment Insight<\/h2>\n<p>To make the recruitment process enjoyable and productive for both hiring companies and candidates, add the right assessments. Recruit Smart!<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1r3dJT8\">Assestant,<\/a> your simple, easy to use online assessment service, is now available within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/#blog\">SmartRecruiters<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While delivering 150,000+ online assessments in 2013, we have received a lot of feedback from customers and assessment takers alike.\u00a0For those who have taken online assessments (Assestant), it has of course, been the primary \u2018convenience factor\u2019 that stands out. 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