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It’s far from difficult to find stories of industries and businesses being flooded with applications, even for just one or two available roles. You can then receive the results and easily identify the best people to put through to the next stage or in fact have a clear understanding of their training needs and accept this in order to prioritise other qualities shown in their DNA personality report and background experience. Once you know the answer and have evidenced what great actually looks like, you can use this information to help find the best performing people during pre-employment testing. If you’re advertising for new staff and struggling to cope with increased volumes of applications, consider how much time you could save by introducing pre-employment testing.

They still work, of course, but with more stages of recruitment taking place remotely, it is no longer as simple as arranging attendance in person and assessing in a controlled exam environment. For many businesses, this has been common practice for some time; whilst others are now taking this route for safety amid the uncertainty of the future; and/or because of time constraints of what are typically smaller numbers of key staff often doing the job of their furloughed colleagues as well as their own. Converting to online means you will have the assessment centralised, online, globally available 24/7, scored automatically with real-time results and management information. If you take those tests online in a safe, secure, and organised fashion, a huge chunk of your recruitment process is taken care of.

With millions of workers far from returning to the workplace under normal conditions, it’s no surprise to learn that the interviewing and selection process is going virtual too. How you sift out and filter in quality applications to create a quality candidate pool will pay dividends to your time and ensure you hire right first time and it is imperative to do all you can to reduce the number of CVs you need to look at. With more people applying for a shrinking range of roles, there are many stories of applicants who have applied for jobs outside of their range of knowledge. Skillsarena offers a range of tests designed to help you find the right people for many industries and job roles.

Skillsarena business is uninterrupted by design and I am proud to say that all of our business continuity plans for our staff and associates have been fully exercised and implemented and without any interruption to service or support. As the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity land of home working we have been forced into subsides, many individuals and organisations who have been forced into the “home working pilot” will be asking some pertinent questions; It did work…. We must recognised that relationships and the ability to nurture them as we have will change, and banter, tone and body language are inaccessible skills, and replacing those wonders of human nature and behaviour are the flourishing dangers of “written communication” intention, tone and its “interpretation” by those we need to get the most from. Critical to making it work and the best it can be, right here, right now and for the long term is two fold; for individuals to understand themselves and for organisations and management to know who those individuals are, who can work remotely and what they need from them to sustainability flourish in doing so.