Assessments
Coding assessment is a practical approach that recruiters use to evaluate a programmer’s skills usually before interviews. Assessment usually comes in form of a test that focuses on evaluating a candidate’s approach to the challenges.
Why Assessment is Necessary
Some of the importance of assessment are:
1. It helps recruiters discover qualified candidates
Coding assessment will filter out unqualified candidates even before an interview. Big companies that receive many applications need to filter out unqualified candidates before interviews. This fact explains why assessment is very common in big companies.
2. It ensures successful hiring
Hiring the wrong candidate will not only waste everyone’s time but also waste recruiting resources. Fortunately, an assessment can help recruiters understand how candidates will perform when they are hired. Hence, recruiters won’t have to waste time and resources hiring the wrong candidates.
3. It saves the hiring manager from unnecessary stress
Hiring takes some time and imposes some stress on the hiring manager. Assessment can take away the stress by reducing the number of candidates the hiring manager will interview. This kind of candidate elimination doesn’t involve any bias as each candidate will get the opportunity to showcase their skills before the qualified ones are selected.
Types of Assessment
The major purpose of an assessment is to find out the knowledge a candidate has about a particular job, but sometimes assessments point out other information different from skill level. The major types of assessment and the information they point out include the following:
1. Job knowledge assessment
This type of assessment help recruiters determine the job knowledge a particular candidate possesses. The type of assessment measures only the knowledge candidates acquired from training and past work.
A candidate’s ability to adapt to new tasks will not be measured in this type of assessment. However, the job knowledge that this assessment provides is usually enough to make a good hiring decision.
2. Cognitive ability assessment
A competent developer must be able to think critically whenever he or she comes across a problem outside the scope of his or her knowledge. Fortunately, cognitive ability assessment can provide some information regarding a candidate’s thinking capacity.
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