1. Recruitment Selection Summary By Gill McMurray & Ashley Gordon Recruitment Selection Summary

3. T e s t s To help them decide who to employ, employers often use selection tests to provide useful additional information about the candidate. Tests can be used to identify the candidate’s personality profile, reasoning skills and aptitudes. The organisations will use psychometric tests to obtain a profile of the candidate covering both personality and intellectual ability. A personality test is used to explore a candidate’s personality traits. It can help identify strengths and weaknesses and ascertain whether or not the candidate is a team player, risk taker, aggressive, etc.. Two of the main types of tests are skills tests and psychometric tests.