Pre-Employment
Cognitive aptitude tests are a type of pre-employment assessment that help employers gather information about prospective candidates.
An aptitude test is designed to gather cognitive abilities such as logical reasoning, problem-solving, critical thinking and analytical skills that apply to every job.
Aptitudes impact job performance in that they determine how quickly employees can learn on the job, improve over time in a role, and solve problems in novel situations. As a result, aptitude tests are better than many other selection criteria at predicting long-term job success.
The HighMatch Aptitude Test is a configurable assessment that measures logical reasoning and analytical thinking among other qualities related to general intelligence including Rapid Problem-Solving, Spatial Visualization and Vocabulary.
By combining general and custom aptitudes, HighMatch enables you to rank-order candidates based on their general aptitude levels as well as relative strengths and weaknesses.
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Aptitude testing is a useful because it’s difficult to assess psychological traits effectively through resumes and interviews alone
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A general aptitude test measures a broad range of cognitive abilities. Researchers found that although general aptitude is an effective indicator of performance across occupations, specific aptitudes (like verbal knowledge) add more predictive power, especially for narrower subject domains (e.g., writing).
Both specific and general aptitude tests are useful in selection practices. General aptitude tests evaluate a candidate’s potential to learn and adapt, and specific aptitude tests are suited for more focused assessment and predictions.
HighMatch Talent Insights Platform includes a highly configurable talent assessment test that’s fast, easy to implement and includes both an aptitude test and a personality assessment right out-of-the-box.
HighMatch also offers fully custom assessments that measure individual qualities that matter most to your business.
Both our aptitude assessment and our personality assessment test can be paired with skills assessments, either from our strategic partnership with one of the largest skills testing providers, or our native skills offerings.
Pairing skills testing with aptitude and personality assessments can provide a holistic view of a candidate’s ability to be successful on the job, leading to better hiring decisions.
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Enterprise companies have the organizational structure to support role specialization, which means most hires will have to have knowledge and experience across a number of hard skills necessary to fulfill every requirement of the role.
HighMatch helps eliminate these worries by providing skills tests that offer an unbiased measurement of your candidate’s ability to perform and understand tasks and software related to various job functions.
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