Employment testing has been used by employers for pre-employment testing for at least 50 years. Skills assessments, cognitive, personality, psychometric and job performance testing is a huge industry generating close to one billion dollars in North America.

These tests are not perfect but do have merit for the employer when hiring you. Most of the organizations I am familiar with may use one type of testing at the manager level to executive level but rarely pay for this service when hiring at the staff level. Most organization’s use testing as a part of their hiring process but not . . .

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