Despite a small pick up in recruitment, recent reports have revealed unemployment has stabilised over the last three months, with 2.47 million people now out of work. To give job hunters a competitive edge in a tough recruitment market, SHL, the global leader in talent assessment solutions in the workplace, has launched an online assessment which allows candidates to better understand different job roles and map out their ideal career.
The SHL Career Guidance Assessment is a series of five online questionnaires, which provides job hunters with a quick and accurate way to evaluate and link their abilities, transferable skills, personality, interests and work-related values to possible career choices. These represent areas that today’s employers will measure and link together to provide candidates with their ideal job matches.
Once completed, job hunters are provided with a visual profile chart recording their data and highlighting their individual preferences. They are also given an overview of job matches, incorporating relevant job details. The test also gives candidates the option to move around the profile chart to look at alternative job suggestions that didn’t come up as a first match.
“With signs that the recruitment market is beginning to pick up, many people will be looking to capitalise on this but are wondering what career opportunities are open to them”, says David Leigh, CEO at SHL. “It’s not just entry-level workers that are thinking about their career options, there are still a huge number of candidates in the marketplace that were made redundant last year and those that were unable to move jobs in the recession but are now looking for something different. The last couple of years has caused many workers to evaluate what’s important to them and re-think what career path they want to go down. We want to help these people look for jobs and think about all the options available to them.”
He adds: “The new online career guidance test is about building understanding among people, inviting them to look at their interests and values, and interpret what this might mean in terms of the right job fit.”
The SHL Career Guidance Assessment is available to UK employees at £15 via Paypal and is situated at http://www.shl.com/CareerGuidance/default.aspx
