Choosing a pre-hire assessment is a lot like a swimsuit. It all comes down to fit. The style, material, or head-turning price tag doesn’t matter a bit if it doesn’t fit. Ill-fitting swimsuits not only won’t look good , but you also won’t want to wear them. Instead, they will languish at the bottom of your dresser drawers, unworn, out of sight, ultimately useless.
Assessments work the same way. If you want an assessment to provide what it promises, it must be tailored to fit your job.
Made to measure
What a person wears can tell you a lot about them. You outfit yourself neatly and professionally for a job interview to make an excellent first impression. Your pre-hire assessment is one of the first things a potential employee sees of your organization. You need to make sure it sends the right message. Do you want something generic that looks like everybody else? Or do you want it to demonstrate that your company is serious about your hiring process?
The best swimsuit is one created specifically for you. It requires an investment of time and resources. To begin, the tailor takes your measurements. They may have you try on several styles to see how they look and so you can gauge how you feel. A top-notch tailor will ensure fit, that the final product fully meets your needs. Creating the best assessment necessarily starts by taking the measurements of your job through job analysis. A provider that promises you a proper assessment without a job analysis is like a tailor who never takes out his measuring tape. No matter how skilled they are, they cannot achieve a perfect fit.
And a carefully crafted swimsuit should last a long time. Imagine if the tailor checked up on your outfits and made subtle alterations over the life of the swimsuit to make sure they always fit. With all our custom Virtual Job Tryouts, Modern Hire is a custom tailor and continuously monitors the data to determine if we can make changes to improve the system.
Ready to wear
The tailored swimsuit is not for everybody and all occasions. Maybe you need something to wear tonight. Or perhaps a custom swimsuit is out of your price range. Already knowing your size and having a style in mind can be an affordable alternative to a custom-made swimsuit. In the assessment world, off-the-shelf products can be a reasonable ready-to-go starting point to meet your immediate needs. Modern Hire has solutions based on our years of experience predicting job performance in specific job families. These standard products are ready to deploy, require limited preparation and investment, but can deliver an immediate and a measurable impact on your hiring process.
One size fits all
Would any tailor try to sell the same swimsuit to everybody? Same size, same color, same material, same swimsuit? Many test publishers seek to sell a basic assessment battery to as many clients as possible. Many companies contend they can deliver great assessments at bargain prices. Some even claim to use machine learning or big data algorithms to tailor the assessment to your job. But if the starting point is the same model for everyone, you are making alterations to something that was not prepared for your company or job family. No tailor, no matter how skilled, can make a swimsuit several sizes too small look as good as a swimsuit crafted with you in mind.
Trust the experts
Quality of hire is akin to the quality of fit. Depth and breadth of experience of the tailor make a crucial difference. Would you rely on and pay someone without any sewing or tailoring expertise to make you a swimsuit? Or would you trust a professional with years of experience and training to help create what you need? Modern Hire has over 25 data scientists with combined decades of experience designing custom-fit Virtual Job Tryouts for organizations that want to make sure their pre-hire assessments make a great first impression, wear well, and ensure exceptional prediction of job fit.
Maybe you know what you want. Or perhaps you just know you need something different – your old routine no longer fits your needs or you want something that works better. If you want a new swimsuit, talk to a tailor for a high-quality fit. If you need an assessment to optimize job fit, talk to us. We’ll show you how a custom fit can bring you amazing results.
