Recruitment test

Recruitment tests serve as instruments for selecting applicants in the application process .

Sense and purpose

Recruitment tests are used by organizations (e.g. companies , institutions or public administration ) to determine whether applicants are suitable for a particular job . As a rule, these test procedures are multi-stage and serve the organizations in various areas to check whether applicants meet the requirements necessary for a position. Today, these test procedures have become irreplaceable instruments, as they are intended to ensure selection based on objective criteria. The use of these test procedures is particularly useful for employers because they allow a comparison to be drawn between applicants with very different levels of competence.

Contents and test fields

Most of the time, the content of the tests is geared towards the requirements of the relevant professional field. However, there are basically four areas in which testing is primarily carried out:

personality

• motivation
• Self-assessment
• Communication skills
• reliability

Knowledge

• General knowledge
• spelling, orthography
• Practical math
• foreign languages
• Professional knowledge

intelligence

• Logical thinking
• Spatial Imagination
• Linguistic intelligence
• Creative intelligence
• Comprehension

concentration

• attention
• Retention

In addition to general and technical knowledge, applicants must also have a certain personality profile in some professional fields. The personality test is then carried out as an integral part of the recruitment test.

literature

• Marcus Mery, Kurt Guth: Test trainer for all types of recruitment tests, aptitude tests and professional aptitude tests. 1st edition. Verlag Bildungspark, Offenbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-941356-03-0 .
• Christian Püttjer, Uwe Schnierda: The big application manual . 6th revised and expanded edition. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-38965-3 .
• Peter Schneider, Manfred Zindel, Roland Lötzerich: Passing the recruitment test: The successful test training. Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-548-37348-5 .
• Wolfgang Reichel: Test trainer recruitment tests: prepare systematically, pass successfully. Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-16673-X .
• Joachim Keil: Test trainer: for those looking for a training place. Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-16498-2 .
• Jürgen Hesse, Hans Christian Schrader: Testtraining2000plus. STARK Verlag, Hallbergmoos 2011, ISBN 978-3-866-68394-5 .

See also

• Assessment center
• Aptitude test
• Personnel selection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Püttjer, Uwe Schnierda: The big Bewerbungshandbuch . 6th revised and expanded edition. Campus Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-38965-3 , pp. 483/484