Pre Employment Assesment Guide

This section provides an introduction to the basics of pre-employment testing. It describes the different types of pre-employment assessments, discusses how widespread pre-employment testing is, and explains what to expect from using pre-employment tests.

This section explains the major benefits of using pre-employment testing. It explains why companies use pre-employment testing and then outlines the major benefits of using pre-hire tests, including higher productivity; increased employee retention and reduction in costs associated with turnover; more efficient, less time consuming hiring process; and increased defensibility in the hiring process.

This section defines the different types of validity measures used to validate professionally developed pre-employment tests. It covers the concepts of construct validity, content validity, criterion validity, and validity generalization.

This section outlines the best practices and strategies for getting the full value out of pre-employment testing. It covers how to choose types of tests, when to administer tests, how many tests to administer, how to test existing employees to establish benchmarks, and how to set minimum or maximum cutoff scores.

This section explains the legal issues associated with pre-employment testing. It explains the legal guidelines governing hiring practices, the ability for pre-employment testing to increase the defensibility of the hiring process, the rule of job-relatedness, the legality of using certain tests, and the concept of adverse impact.