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Truth 49No crystal ball? Try employment testing

With so much emphasis placed on interviews, it’s easy to forget that the interview alone is a fairly inaccurate means of discerning the candidate’s skills, abilities, and competencies. As interviewers, we tend to be swayed by first impressions. We get distracted by our own desires to make a good impression ourselves, especially if we’re hiring for a hard-to-fill position or we have a highly desirable candidate in front of us. We fail to ask the probing questions that reveal the rest of the story.

How can you really know that this is the right candidate for the job? You need a tool to help you see beyond the interview. That tool is the preemployment test.

You may use a number of different types of ...