Hard Skills Assessment
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Written by Ricky Spiroski
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🧱 What are hard skills?

Each job requires a specific set of skills. Hard skills are specific competencies, knowledge, and abilities needed to perform a task or role. They can be defined as part of the role specification.

HiPeople offers 325+ AI-powered challenging skill assessments tested by experts in the field. Whereby questions and response options are carefully reviewed.

Hard Skill Examples:

  • Spoken languages

  • Microsoft Office

  • Programming languages

  • Copywriting

  • Logistics

Why is this important?

Biographical data (Biodata) measures rely on the principle of behavioral consistency, where past behavior serves as a reliable predictor of future actions. Surprisingly, collecting job-specific Biodata remains one of the most undervalued methods for screening candidates.

How do we assess Biodata?

Biodata measures encompass a range of items focusing on past events and behaviors that mirror personality attributes, attitudes, experiences, skills, and abilities that predict overall performance within a specific occupation. Our approach involves gathering pertinent activities tailored to the sector and occupation, prompting candidates to self-assess their proficiency in each activity.

👀 What does this look like for the Candidate?

👉 Example Item for Module “Accounting & Auditing”:

The Candidate will start by getting an introduction and basic rules about the assessment after agreeing to an integrity pledge.

The Candidate will then proceed with the test by answering multiple-choice questions.

After completing the assessment, the recruiter will get a detailed description of the candidates’ scores, including a short explanation. All different scores are explained to the recruiter by positioning the candidates’ levels of expertise.

You can share the results with the Candidate based on the company's decision. Here, we give more contextualized information.

📊 SCORING

  • HiPeople provides standardized scoring, with different scores represented in their own way and a short description. Our results are comparable and easy to interpret.

  • With Biodata, every job description yields a numerical module score assessing the relevant candidate skills.

  • Each score is meticulously classified, describing the Candidate's proficiency level for each module.

  • These scores, rated out of 10, ensure candidates are accurately assessed, and their expertise levels are clearly explained, facilitating informed hiring decisions tailored to the specific requirements of the role.

  • The percentage of correct answers is mentioned in the details of the candidates’ scoring, making it easy for recruiters to interpret results.

🧐 THE SCIENCE BEHIND BIODATA

  • Biodata measures are effective predictors of job success (i.e., they have a moderate degree of criterion-related validity) in numerous settings and for a wide range of criterion types (e.g., overall performance, customer service, teamwork) 📚 DOI:10.1111/1468-2389.00110

  • Biodata measures also appear to add validity (i.e., incremental validity) to selection systems employing traditional ability measures 📚 DOI:10.1037/apl0000964

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