Pre-Employment Screening & Skills Testing
Advanced Pre-Employment Screening & Candidate Skills Testing
Through Professional Alternatives' collection of comprehensive assessments, we're able to take pre-employment screening and employee skills testing to the next level, delivering unparalleled insights. Our techniques and methods allow us to pull out the following insights for every candidate we bring to our clients, ensuring the delivery of the ideal candidate for your current needs:
Behavior/Personality
Assessments tailored to individual positions at various levels and industries, focusing on predictive personality traits with position-appropriate situational judgment items and reasoning ability.
Abilities
Reasoning assessments designed to identify a candidate’s capacity to evaluate, analyze, and approach problems, while executing successful resolutions.
Culture Match
Reviewing a candidate’s potential cultural match, this assessment is designed to meet many needs, including selection across multiple positions, and identifying candidates whose values best match those of your organization.
Skills/Knowledge
Content validated assessments measure specific skills or knowledge in accounting, administrative, call center, financial, healthcare, industrial, legal, software, and IT/technical positions.
Specialities
These are unique assessments designed to get to the heart of matters not commonly addressed, addressing key factors such as willingness to follow safety guidelines, sales capacity, teamwork, engagement, and more.
Comprehensive Skills Assessments & Employee Testing
We offer a variety of skills assessments and employee testing options so that you can test the candidate before you hire them to ensure that they have the skills you need to help your business grow. Below are just some of the testing capabilities we provide for various job functions:
Accounting/Finance Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Accounting
- Accounts Payable/Receivable
- Authority
- Bank Teller/Cash Handling
- Bookkeeping
- Commercial Banking/Collections/Insurance
- Credit Analyst/Management
- Data Entry
- Dependability
- Detail Orientation
- Financial Analysis/Management
- Initiative
- Numerical Reasoning
- Situational Judgment
Administrative Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Attention to Detail
- Computer Literacy
- Data Entry/Typing
- Etiquette
- Filing
- Following Instructions
- Grammar/Spelling
- Initiative
- Integrity
- Optimism
- Math
- Reading/Writing/Proofreading
- Reasoning
- Retention
- Situational Judgment
- Team Orientation
Call Center/Customer Service Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Analytical
- Concern for Others
- Data Entry/Spelling
- Dependability
- Detail Orientation
- Inbound/Outbound
- Initiative
- Listening Skills
- Multi-tasking
- Retention
- Self-Control
- Situational Judgment
- Team Orientation
- Technical Support
- Telephone Etiquette
Hospitality Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Compliance
- Dependability
- Developing Talent
- Execution of Operational Standards
- Guest Service
- Hospitality
- Initiative
- Leads by Example
- Managing Performance/Pressure
- Problem Solving/Decision Making
- Situational Judgment
- Sociability
Management Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Accelerating Innovation
- Authority
- Dependability
- Developing Talent
- Fostering Collaboration
- Managing Performance/Pressure
- Multitasking
- Organization
- Problem Solving/Decision Making
- Situational Judgment
- Sociability
- Team Orientation
Retail Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Cash Handling
- Compliance
- Dependability
- Detail Orientation
- Development
- Initiative
- Numerical Reasoning
- Situational Judgment
- Stress Tolerance
- Team Orientation
Sales Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Authority
- Dependability
- Inbound/Outbound
- Initiative
- Persistence
- Situational Judgment
- Team Orientation
- Writing/Communication
Software Skills Testing & Assessments:
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- QuickBooks Pro
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