recruitment tests
Pre-employment evaluation tools
Recruitment tests are assessments used by employers to evaluate job candidates, measuring aptitudes, skills, personality traits, or cognitive abilities.
They range from technical skill tests to personality inventories to general reasoning puzzles: She spent the weekend preparing for the recruitment tests.
The term is more common in British than American English, where hiring assessments or pre-employment tests are typical alternatives.
- cognitive abilityMental processing capacity
- verbal reasoningUnderstanding through language
- numerical reasoningLogic applied to numbers
- abstract reasoningThought using concepts alone
- logical reasoningStructured thought process
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