Fortunately, pre-employment tests can help you avoid hiring troublemakers – including applicants who have lousy or unproductive interpersonal skills. Three interpersonal skills of major concern are the applicant’s level of
+ Friendliness
+ Assertiveness
+ Teamwork
My last three blogs disucssed the 3 types of Interpersonal Troublemakers.
Today, what does it cost your company to make such a mistake.
TROUBLEMAKERS COST YOUR COMPANY PRODUCTIVITY & PROFITS
Your goal is to hire applicants who are likely to be productive, low-turnover and profitable for your company. So, you have financial reasons to avoid hiring troublemakers. The most scientific way to determine who may be a “troublemaker” at your company is to do a pre-employment test benchmarking study.
For this, pre-employment test scores of your best or “superstar” employees must be determined. Then, you could seriously consider applicants whose test scores are the same or similar to your superstars’ benchmark test scores.
PRE-EMPLOYMENT TESTING RECOMMENDATIONS to HELP YOU AVOID HIRING INTERPERSONAL TROUBLEMAKERS
First, use pre-employment test that measures interpersonal skills like Friendliness, Assertiveness, and Teamwork. Second, do benchmarking study – to find typical or “benchmark” test scores of your company’s “superstars.” Third, seriously consider possibly hiring applicants who get pre-employment test scores the same or similar to your company’s benchmark test scores.
Using these three steps enables you to avoid hiring interpersonal troublemakers – based on applicants’ benchmarked pre-employment test scores.
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