What is an Assessment Center ?
The aim of an Assessment Center is to evaluate candidates on the skills required for a given position. These assessments can take the form of digital recruitment interviews with a conversational avatar, technical exercises, role-playing exercises...). The aim is to enable candidates to put their skills into practice, and to observe the relevance of actions taken during assessments, as well as candidates' reactions to a given situation. Depending on the aim, organizations with an Assessment Center will use the various tools at their disposal to find out everything there is to know about candidates.
What is the purpose of an Assessment Center ?
The Assessment Center provides objective, neuroscience-based data to assess individual skills and competencies, as well as the ability to interact with others, think, withstand stress, make decisions, listen...
HR Data: Companies that base their recruitment processes on competencies are 98% more likely to retain top talent.
Assessment essentials with AI How do you organize an assessment center ?
For HR departments, organizing an assessment center requires a great deal of preliminary work. Many small and medium-sized companies opt to outsource this stage to recruitment agencies. For larger companies, the best option is to use an AI-assisted Applicant Tracking System to access this assessment tool.
The importance of assessments for evaluating candidates' skills :
- Accurate skills assessment: provide a more precise measure of candidates' skills and abilities than traditional assessments.
- Predictive validity : situational assessments are more predictive of candidates' professional performance than other methods.
- Improved candidate selection : by assessing candidates on the basis of job-related tasks, organizations can make more informed decisions.