Is this scenario familiar?
Cara was recruited as a Customer Services Advisor, she does a great job and likes the company but feels under challenged, maybe she will have to leave.
Mark is the Manager of Field Sales in the same organisation. He is desperately seeking to fill a gap in his team. He needs strong Attention to Detail, Verbal Reasoning, Excel, Data Checking and Time Management skills.
Cara has those abilities but doesn’t know Mark or what he is looking for, if only the HR department knewthat she had these skills. If they did Mark could search the company’s skills database and see the capabilities of everyone in the business and tell them about his vacancy.
What’s the solution?
Aspirant is a new service offered by business skills testing specialists Recruitment Assessment.
With Aspirant, any member of staff who wishes to is able to make all recruiting managers aware of their skills (without revealing their name) theycan all search the company’s skills database and via the HR department tell them about his vacancy.
Let us return to the original scenario again.
Cara accessed the company’s Aspirant system:
She used the online testing system to establish her skills and capabilities. Each test lasted about 35 minutes. They were interesting and engaging. She could take them when and where she liked. There were 15 to choose from but only four interested her.
She was pleased and surprised when she got an internal email from Mark saying that her skills matched well with the abilities he was looking for would she like to know more about therole? She had never thought about a Field Sales role, but instead of leaving the company she could now develop her career in a completely new direction.
We all know HR and recruitment is an expensive business. Businesses spend thousands of
pounds and dedicate hundreds of hours in recruitment and managing staff. And rightly so – after all your staff are your most important resource. Would it not make sense to have a better understanding of the skills that are already in the business?
From an HR perspective, looking after employees,recruitment, retaining and developing staff as well as meeting the skills needs of the business is a constant challenge. Most individuals who are recruited or who are existing employees have other skills which perhaps they don’t need for the current role but which could be useful in another role.
The creators of Aspirant, Recruitment Assessment, recently did some research amongst 40 large sized businesses (more than 500 staff) bandit highlighted the following key issues:
- 1. For larger organisations there needs to be a holistic overview of employee skills and aptitudes (84% strongly agreed)
- 2. There is real business value to be obtained from objectively testing and understanding staff and candidate skills and being able to access it easily (87% strongly agreed)
- 3. Staff retention and development will growing importance over the next 5 years (77% strongly agreed)
Out of this research came Aspirant.
Aspirant enables any members of staff, who wishes to, to access a personal testing centre.
Here they can select any / all of a number of pre-configured online multi topic tests.These results then form part of their competency portfolio where they can demonstrate their prowess. These results might have no relationship with their current role or skills that were assessed when they joined the company. The test takers scores are anonymised in a database. Managers who have a vacancy can easily search the data set against several different criteria. Via the HR department, they can then make contact with any candidates that have the requisite abilities / aptitudes and let them know about their roles and see if they are interested in knowing more about the position.
If this sounds of interest to you please contact Warren Bresler at Recruitment Assessment directly on 020 8416 0341 for an informal chat.
