Assessments

What We Assess

We offer Assessment solutions that span all aspects of the hiring and selection process. Our comprehensive Assessment library includes skills and abilities tests, behavioral and personality assessments, structured interviews, assessment centers and simulations, performance indicators, cultural fit, job fit and career fit,  realistic job previews, leadership assessments and custom-built assessments.

With both Pre-Validated Assessments for key job roles, industry specific solutions and outcome specific solutions, and Custom Built Assessments that identify critical factors in specific organizational environments and unique roles, our Assessment solutions are designed to leverage multiple factors that predict success.

Skills and Abilities

We offer skills and abilities tests that improve your screening process by helping you quickly identify and select the most talented candidates.  Kenexa Prove It!^® skills tests are easy-to-use and administer, and offer more than 1,000 validated employee assessments for specific job classifications, including:

Software Office/Professional Call Center Financial

Healthcare Industrial Legal Technical

Test results are received instantly—ideal for selecting candidates in a fast-paced, competitive environment. Kenexa Prove It! helps you select the very best candidates the first time, every time. More information is available at www.proveit.com

Our Abilities tests help you accurately and fairly measure reasoning skills that are necessary for successful completion of everyday work tasks. We offer a series of Abilities assessments that are suitable for all candidates,  including both graduate and managerial levels. 

Our contemporary range of employee Assessments helps you sift large volumes of candidates quickly and easily—helping you reduce time-to-hire and enhance the efficiency of your recruitment process. These tests can be used as standalone assessments or integrated with Recruitment Technology and administered automatically as part of an online recruitment process. 
 

Behavioral and Personality Assessments

Our Behavioral and Personality Assessments offer a full range of tools that help you reliably assess personality traits and behaviors that are applicable in candidate and employee selection, development and evaluation. Our tools are quick and easy-to-complete, and provide detailed candidate reports, helping identify areas for personal development and enhance the performance of individuals in your organization.

Specific titles include:

Administrative Support Assets Protection Manager Call Center Customer Service Distribution Associate Healthcare Associate Hospitality Associate Manager Selector Manager Retail Manager Manufacturing Manager Call Center Manager Sales Manager Restaurant

Manager Hospitality Manager Healthcare Motivation Questionnaire Occupational Personality Inventory Property Management Retail Associate Retail Manager Sales Professional Service Associate Supervisor TeleSales and Service Travel Professional

Structured Interviews

We offer structured interviews that help you assess candidates with greater accuracy, objectivity and consistency, while improving the fit of new hires within your organization's culture. Our two distinct interviewing Assessment tools identify top performers and increase interviewer confidence.

Kenexa Insight^® delivers customized research-based interviews to accurately identify talented candidates for hire and promotion. Kenexa Interview Builder^® provides a powerful online structured interview reference library of more than 3,000 questions that increase interviewer confidence, efficiency, accuracy and defensibility.

Assessment Centers and Simulations

We offer Assessment Centers and Simulations that evaluate performance levels and development opportunities of candidates and current employees. Our Assessment Centers simultaneously assess candidate potential and performance by using a variety of tests, interviews and simulation exercises. These tests also provide the ideal environment to assess training and development needs for your existing employees, providing a clear view of existing skills and abilities. Popular with assessors and candidates, our Assessment Center range features ready-to-use exercises set in a variety of realistic scenarios, including:

Presentation exercises Role playing Group exercises In-tray exercises

Written analysis exercises Workflow simulation exercises Practice interview sessions

Kenexa Simulations offer unique online assessments that engage candidates in a virtual environment, enabling you to identify the most talented employees. Our simulations deliver accurate job previews and ensure candidates thoroughly understand the demands of the role. We help you reduce the cost-of-hire by replacing labor intensive stages of the selection process and offer specific simulations for:

• Financial services
• Hospitality
• Retail
• Situational Judgment

Performance Indicators

Our Performance Indicators are a suite of ready-to-use tools that predict the likelihood of employees to be engaged in their work, team oriented, customer focused, safety conscious and capable of driving organizational success through sales functions. The KPI Suite also assesses whether potential employees are likely to stay with your organization, be more prone to turnover once hired or engage in counter-productive behavior. These tools can be used individually or as an integrated solution to predict each area of performance, and include:

• Kenexa Engagement Indicator Assessment^®
• Kenexa Teamwork Indicator Assessment^®
• Kenexa Customer Service Indicator Assessment^®
• Kenexa Sales Indicator Assessment^®
• Kenexa Safety Indicator Assessment™
• Kenexa Retention Indicator Assessment™
• Kenexa Counter Productivity Indicator Assessment™

With our Performance Indicators, you can confidently select who will enhance organizational success, avoid costly mistakes related to incorrect hiring decisions, tap into critical components of individual performance areas, and quickly and easily assess candidate potential.

Cultural Fit, Job Fit and Career Fit

Our Job Fit Assessment is a powerful tool designed to help you identify candidates whose job preferences match specific tasks or characteristics of a job. This easy-to-use solution is ideal for candidate selection across multiple industries and can greatly decrease turnover in your organization. Job Fit quickly and accurately maximizes your ability to identify candidates whose job preferences are closely aligned to those of the job.

Our Cultural Fit Assessment helps you determine whether candidate value preferences match your organization’s mission and values. This tool can be used as a ready-to-use solution or can be customized to meet each organization’s individual needs and values. Developed to predict retention, rather than performance, Cultural Fit can greatly decrease turnover and enhance overall employee commitment and job satisfaction in your organization.

Our Career Fit Assessment is designed to match applicants to jobs they are best suited for based on their individual knowledge, skills and abilities. This quick and easy-to-use solution is ideal for high volume recruiting and can be used for multiple job families across multiple industries. Career Fit will greatly increase recruiting efficiency in your company and contribute to the overall performance of your organization.

Realistic Job Previews

We have extensive experience in designing and deploying Realistic Job Previews. These Assessments can be presented in a variety of formats including online video, Flash-based presentations, or text supplemented with audio, visuals or diagrams. Our Realistic Job Previews are related to increased job performance, job satisfaction, job survival, motivation, and commitment to the organization, and decreased turnover and new hire dissatisfaction.
 

Leadership Assessments

Our Leadership Assessment Suite offers comprehensive online leadership assessments, in-depth structured interviews and multi-rater feedback tools that can be used together or individually based on organizational needs. The Suite is a flexible set of tools that evaluate critical dimensions of leader performance, including leadership style, core motivators, potential challenge areas, judgment and culture fit. This provides rich information for rigorous leadership selection, onboarding, development and succession planning.

Custom-Built Assessments

In addition to pre-validated Assessments, we also offer Custom-Built Assessments that identify critical factors for success in unique job roles or for unique organizational settings. We have deep expertise in developing these tailored assessments and leverage our proven content library to create custom content for your organization. Using our custom research process, we conduct stakeholder interviews, focus groups and job analysis questionnaires with high performing employees to create job analyses and to provide competency modeling for your unique job roles. This helps you identify future top talent for your organization and drive ongoing success.