What never seems to stop amazing me is the recruitment mistakes that employers make on what I would call “bread and butter” jobs. What I mean by bread and butter jobs is the high volume low or intermediate skilled jobs – which are predominantly office based. Office administrators, clerical roles, accounts department workers, marketing assistants etc.
Because their salaries are not necessarily the highest I see time and time again the same mistake from employers who do not invest time in accurately assessing their basic skills levels. Whether it be numeracy, attention to detail, excel skills, spelling etc or combinations of all of them – having a basic level of skills is important for the individual to function on a day to day basis and from the employers viewpoint, someone who can actually do the role.
If you think about the investment of time and money in recruiting the wrong candidate – even for lower paid roles – the knock on effect for the business is quite considerable.
Time on wasted advertising, time on wasted administration during the recruitment process, time wasted interviewing. Once offered the job we have time wasted waiting for notice periods (sometimes), time wasted realising that they really are not up to it, time wasted deciding to get rid of them and then time wasted starting the whole process all over again.
We have put together a very simple calculator to help employers and recruitment agencies work out the true cost of getting it wrong. You can see it here.
So what is the alternative?
Quite simply it involves you testing applicants during the early stages. With Recruitment Assessment, utilising Eskill’s huge range of tests, which are selectable by skills level, you can accurately and affordably assess the skills of prospective candidates.
You can try some sample tests here to get a better idea about what I mean.
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