Recruiting the wrong people can have widespread repercussions in terms of cost to the business. How can you ensure that you've found the right person for the job? Advertising for candidates with the right skills and experience, and then interviewing them to establish whether they have the personality and drive to match, will only take you so far. It's key to find the right staff with the skills that can shift as the business shifts. Some companies are using personality and ability testing to back up interviews and to provide extra insights into the true potential of future staff; they can help you assess a candidate's ability to think strategically, as well as their emotional strength. Tests are not only useful as recruitment tools but also for building internal teams or for reshuffling people after a major restructure. It provides a vocabulary for people to talk about emotional stuff professionally, which is often not easy in a work environment (and for some, not even in a home environment).

Learn more about how to use testing to choose good candidates:
- read the article at MIS Magazine

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