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Why should I test employment candidates?

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One pre-employment testing company, which features online services, boasts that using their tests will increase sales performance by at least 10 percent, reduce turnover by at least 20 percent, and cut your hiring time by at least half—all for less cost. Who wouldn’t want that for their company?

Testing candidates does offer you and your company advantages, including:


  • Fair and consistent screening of applicants. During an interview process, many human factors come into play. The interviewer may misread a candidate, ask different questions of each applicant, or even forget to cover certain skill areas or questions that are pertinent to the job. By requiring a skill, personality, or cognitive thinking test of all applicants, you’re covering your bases with little room for error.
  • Reduced time to hire. Pre-screening, conducted by outside, third-party companies, or even with tests conducted by your human resources division, helps weed out applicants that wouldn’t be a good fit—and delivers only the best options to your door for in-person interviews.
  • Better chances of hiring a long-term employee. Skilled, professional screening experts can help your company determine the right tests to require finding the best candidates for your company. And the results from these tests will help you hire people who are best suited for the job, which means less turnover, a person who will perform well in the job, increase your company’s chance for success, and overall be the right fit.
  • Identify risky applicants before your company gets in too deep. It’s happened before, but with pre-screening, your chances of hiring a dishonest, criminal, or drug-using candidate is greatly reduced. For example, applicants who know that you screen for drug use are much less likely to apply, saving you valuable time. And criminals who hear that you’ll conduct a background check won’t want to stick around—all the better for you.



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