What is Behavioural Assessment? Its importance & Advantages

What is Behavioural Assessment?

Behavioural assessment is a tool from the field of psychology that is used for observing, describing, explaining and predicting behaviour. Behavioural assessments are now being used outside the clinical settings too, especially in educational and corporate sectors, considering their insightful and predictive nature.

From generic personality traits and customer service orientation to workplace thinking styles, willingness to learn and leadership capabilities, behavioural and personality assessments can help evaluate different personality aspects of candidates. These tests are very reliable, allowing companies to hire with confidence.

Why is Behaviour Assessment Important?

Gone are the days when companies would base their hiring decisions solely on the educational qualifications and work experience of the candidates. The job market, work culture at organizations and the skill requirements to fit a job role have undergone a sea change.

In addition to the educational and technical knowledge, a candidate also needs to possess the right attitude, ability to solve problems, adaptability to fit in the company’s culture and the drive to ultimately succeed in the position.

The traditional assessment practices that include phone screening and/or face-to-face interview make it quite difficult for the recruiters to assess the qualities mentioned earlier.

Considering the time and effort that goes into the hiring process, it is very important that right candidates are selected. Employee retention too is a major issue faced by organizations these days. A wrong selection proves to be an expensive affair monetarily as well as in terms of missed opportunities, lost time and many other factors.

Choosing the Right Tool is Key to Success

In such a scenario, personality assessments may prove to be a boon for the recruiters. They are the right tools that will make the entire selection process efficient while delivering the desired results. They can almost accurately analyse the personality traits of the candidates; these assessments make it a cakewalk to decide the candidates’ suitability for the roles they will be hired for.

Personality assessment tests take the guesswork out of hiring, making it perfect and worthwhile

The scope and application of personality assessments are not limited exclusively to the hiring process. They can also be used for workforce development, training and L&D. Training teams can use these tests to identify skill gaps in the workforce and design training programs to bridge the gap. As employees up-skill themselves, they contribute better to the organisation and in turn, lead to improved performance and productivity. The management and the human resource department can also use these tools to identify leadership potential and address the issue of attrition amongst their employees.

The Merits of MeritTrac Behavioural and Personality Assessment Tests

Our behavioural and personality assessment tests are based on validated and well-researched psychometric frameworks including the Big Five Personality, Holland’s career Interest, Blake Mouton’s Managerial Grid and Hezberg’s Motivation Model. The scientific designing of the tests allows for an unbiased and thorough understanding of a candidate’s behaviour, capability and social skills making it a breeze to select the right one.

We do not stop at offering the foolproof personality assessment; we take care of the entire administration of the test from start to finish. Following are the salient features of MeritTrac’s Behavioural Assessment suite:

• We have our own assessment platforms that are highly adaptive and designed to help conduct the tests easily, quickly and securely.
• With plug and play feature, they can be used at the place, time and on the device of your choice including mobile devices.
• Customizable test catalogues allow coming up with tailor-made tests for every situation in a snap.
• Detailed analytics are provided after the test that allows recruiters to take an informed and unbiased decision.

Considering the numerous benefits of behavioural assessments, it is necessary that organisations make it a part of their recruitment strategy and process. MeritTrac can help you create and administer behavioural assessment tests for hiring and workforce development based on your requirements.

Originally published at https://www.merittrac.com.