HR is one of the first departments that technology and digitalisation have transformed in working life — because processing information, managing the application pool, and analysing documents like CVs are not easy jobs, and given the volume of work and the way it is done, the HR department is a field that is open to leveraging technology.
For that reason, digitalisation both eases the work of HR management in many areas and moves the department forward in terms of quality.
Advanced systems like Online Assessment offer the chance to hire the most suitable candidate in the shortest possible time. From that angle, online assessment doesn’t only simplify hiring; it also supports successful HR management over the long term — because hiring that follows a multi-dimensional evaluation of candidates and a similarly multi-dimensional analysis of their applications also raises the chance that those candidates turn into more productive and longer-staying employees in the department and position where they were hired.
What Is Online Assessment?
Online assessment is an online application and application-analysis system, made up of various tests, designed to recognise candidates as accurately as possible during hiring — and to put their professional background and their technical and general aptitude levels through a multi-dimensional evaluation.
With online assessment systems, the goal in hiring is to evaluate — as accurately and objectively as possible — whether the applicant is the right profile for the role and the company, based on their personality traits, technical knowledge, education level, professional experience, what they have learned from working life and their skills.
For that reason, the online assessment tools to be used and the content of the tests are shaped around the needs of companies looking for employees.
So it becomes possible to move beyond traditional methods and, thanks to a far more careful and detailed hiring process, to land the right candidate in the right role with a kind of pinpoint accuracy.
Online Assessment Tools
Designed to find the most suitable candidate as quickly as possible and to simplify evaluation processes, online assessment covers tools like the online personality inventory-PiT, AI-supported video interview, language tests, general aptitude tests, IT tests and technical tests, and survey and exam preparation.
Because online assessment tools support measurability, beyond easing hiring and/or internal role-change processes through the evaluation of personal traits and area of expertise, they also aim to raise brand value. So, at the end of a far more transparent evaluation, the commitment of the employees who are then hired is built on healthy ground from the very beginning.
Depending on the company’s line of business and on the qualifications, competencies, expertise and other distinguishing criteria sought in a candidate, the online assessment tools used in hiring and the content of the tests vary.
We can go a step further on this by looking at the main online evaluation tools and tests used inside the HRPeak online assessment system.
Online Personality Inventory – PiT
The Personality Inventory PIT (Personality Item Test) is an extremely detailed online assessment tool that, thanks to a multi-dimensional evaluation of personality components, gives information about the candidate’s personality traits and the values they honour and care about most.
Allowing detailed evaluation of the candidate across many topics — role fit, potential competency, value profile, personal awareness — the online personality inventory is suitable for use throughout the full arc of talent acquisition, career management and organisational development.
AI-Supported Video Interview
The AI-supported video interview application is a “one way” video-interview system that, with just an internet connection and a camera, removes the limits of time and place. Because of the cost savings it offers to candidates and employees as well as to organisations, it is one of the most valuable opportunities digitalisation has brought to hiring.
With Turkish and English language options, the AI-supported video interview application saves serious time thanks to its bulk candidate-evaluation system. Its question bank — made up of hundreds of questions — can be used alongside an organisation’s own question pool, opening the door to a much richer interview experience.
Language Tests
The language tests, which measure grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading-comprehension skills, aim to assess whether the candidate’s language proficiency is right for the position being filled.
Depending on the countries a company operates in and on its customer portfolio, language tests can be planned for one or more of the world’s languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Russian.
HRPeak Language Tests serve a total of 8 languages — Turkish, German, Arabic, French, English, Spanish, Dutch and Russian.
General Aptitude Tests
The general aptitude tests, which evaluate candidates across four dimensions — numerical, verbal, abstract reasoning and reading tables/graphs — are an advanced online analysis system used in particular for measuring problem-solving and analytical thinking ability.
Because they are one of the important assessment tools for placing a candidate in the right role, general aptitude tests are among the most widely used online tests in the online-assessment toolbox.
Made up of areas like numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning, abstract reasoning, visual memory and table/graph analysis, general aptitude tests can be shaped according to the company’s needs and the basic competencies expected of the people to be hired.
IT Tests and Technical Tests
IT tests and technical tests are online assessment tools focused on measuring candidates’ professional background and technical knowledge level. Thanks to these tests — which make it possible to assess technical proficiency in software, IT, programming, IT literacy and the use of various software tools online — it is possible to evaluate the most suitable candidate from anywhere in the world, with no time or place constraint.
Beyond technical topics such as Java, Adaptive C#, SQL, Excel, Typing Test, HTML & CSS, Networking and Oracle, IT and technical tests also let you measure your candidate in areas like Financial Literacy — so you can find the candidate that exactly matches the professional and technical competence you are looking for.
Survey
Survey applications — in varieties such as probation, hiring, satisfaction and exit surveys — are online data-gathering tools that organisations can use to anticipate possible risks.
Thanks to these surveys, which can be run both during hiring and to track internal dynamics, you can stay in an interactive exchange with employees, and so catch the requirements of both the sector and the in-house climate at the right time.
Featuring live support, online management and result-tracking, surveys help companies reach the data they need in the shortest time and most easily.
On top of the rich variety of surveys HRPeak Online Assessment offers, options such as adding visuals and/or conditions to questions help you turn the survey experience into something targeted and enjoyable.
Exam Preparation
The Exam Preparation Module — with features like a question bank, booklet creation and open-ended exams, and with adaptive technology that adjusts the difficulty level of the next question based on the candidate’s answers — is another very useful online assessment tool that lets organisations design exactly the exam they need for hiring or for internal role changes.
With this online assessment tool, where we can also set the difficulty level of the questions, it is possible to design expertise, talent or qualification exams made up of text-based questions such as multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank, and to obtain a multi-dimensional evaluation.
How Has Online Assessment Made Hiring Easier for HR?
From the HR side, using online assessment tools in the search for employees and in hiring brings two basic kinds of relief:
- Online Assessment is a multi-dimensional system for candidate evaluation.
- With Online Assessment, the evaluation results and analysis reports are delivered to the HR department in a very short time.
Because the two basic facilitating effects we explained above produce many other positive outcomes, online assessment has — in a short space of time — become more and more the option of choice for both companies and HR teams.
Now let’s go into more detail on the other kinds of relief that online-assessment-based hiring brings to HR:
- Online assessment saves time.
Candidate search and hiring are time-consuming processes, and we don’t want to compromise on the quality of hiring by cutting corners on time — but extending the time set aside for evaluation raises cost, leads to losses in production, and eats into HR’s time.
Online assessment systems minimise that time loss in hiring. - It helps you hire the most suitable candidate for the most suitable role.
For HR, success means placing the right person in the right department and position, and for that to happen the candidate’s personality traits and professional profile both have to be analysed in the best possible way.
Online assessment tools, which provide multi-dimensional candidate evaluation and talent/technical-background analysis, allow exactly that kind of pinpoint candidate selection. - Thanks to the data pool, every application and analysis is always at your fingertips.
When you have to keep up with the company’s needs as quickly as possible, HR having a digitalised data pool is a huge relief. Thanks to online assessment, throughout and after an end-to-end digitalised hiring process, all applications and analyses are ready at hand whenever you need them.
Online assessment tools move HR’s way of working forward in both quality and quantity. - It lets you manage bulk hiring with ease.
Ensuring that bulk hiring processes are run quickly and as well as possible is one of the most important kinds of relief that online assessment tools bring to HR management.
Thanks to multi-dimensional and advanced candidate-evaluation systems, the ability to run online evaluations for many candidates at the same time and to obtain the results — together with analysis reports — in a very short time makes bulk hiring easier with online assessment and minimises the margin of error.
– It helps you identify in-house training and employee-level training needs.
Beyond tasks such as hiring, role/department changes and ending an employment contract, planning training that helps employees and the company continuously update themselves is also one of HR’s important areas of activity.
Determining the content of that training online through surveys — and identifying the in-house training needs of employees and the company — is an extremely practical method.
How Has Online Assessment Made Hiring Easier for Companies?
Successful HR management not only largely guarantees the employee-focused success companies will achieve in their line of business, it also raises brand value.
Online assessment supports quality from the company’s, HR’s and the candidates’ point of view in hiring — and running processes in a highly professional way brings, over the long term, very valuable gains such as employee commitment. This should be evaluated as a kind of chain-reaction positive effect and as an investment.
In addition to the many kinds of relief online assessment brings to the hiring processes in HR, we can answer the question of how the online-assessment system makes hiring management easier for companies like this:
- Thanks to online assessment, the influence of personal opinions in candidate searches and hiring decisions is minimised; in its place, corporate identity comes to the front, and the chance of choosing a candidate suited to the company’s needs grows stronger.
- While decisions are being made about purchasing online assessment tools and the online evaluation modules to be used, the company’s needs are reviewed again, so they become clearer. For that reason, hiring carried out with online assessment tools is brought into maximum alignment with the company’s needs.
- Because the right employee will have been hired into the right role, online assessment supports the company’s success in the long run.
- Placing the right person in a role where, inside the company, they feel they deserve to be, are happy, and can put their skills to work makes the employee more productive and strengthens the bond between them and the company.
How Has Online Assessment Made Hiring Easier for Candidates?
Online assessment makes hiring more transparent to a certain degree, which supports applicants in trusting the process — and that, in turn, matters for capturing diversity in the candidate search.
Online assessment is preferred because of features that ease the process for candidates as well as for companies. So, finally, let’s talk about how online assessment has made hiring easier for candidates.
- Online assessment removes the limits of time and place, gives the application process flexibility and reach, and has no financial burden. So it offers candidates a more comfortable interview experience, both financially and psychologically.
- Tests built on multi-dimensional candidate-evaluation systems let employees put their abilities forward in a better way.
- Online assessment systems are well-suited to letting people express themselves more accurately and put their skills forward in the right way.
- Because they minimise the anxiety that can come up during one-on-one, face-to-face interviews, they keep talented and intelligent people from being overshadowed by interview trauma.
Why Should Companies Use Online Assessment?
Online assessment reduces time loss in hiring, lowers cost, increases the chance of finding the most suitable candidate, and ensures that data is processed and stored in line with the relevant data-protection regulations.
On top of all the positive outcomes of all this for employee productivity and company value, online assessment supports sustainability from the HR perspective, makes it possible to identify the company’s needs continuously, and strengthens corporate identity.
Beyond the relief it brings to hiring, using online assessment tools effectively also supports the general productivity of the company and its employees, and contributes to building a solution-focused structure.
Because with online assessment tools it becomes easier to identify and track employees’ skills, sense of responsibility, personality traits and professional needs, to easily pinpoint needs related to employee development, and to produce solutions that fit.
