Custom Made Assessments

Alternative to ReadyMade Assessment, custom tests are useful when an employer has an unusual job or array of job activities, when tests contain questions about specific plant equipment or processes, or when the use of a validated tool is required in the selection process. Additionally, you may consider the use of a custom test when a ReadyMade test has been given repeatedly or when you worry about "practice effects" from too much familiarity with test content. Parallel alternative forms of tests may be created.

Over the past 30 years, we have developed hundreds of custom tests and worked with many domestic companies, several joint ventures (domestic and foreign), and many diversified manufacturing and processing organizations. These included continuous casters, auto manufacturers, electrogalvanizers, hot strip mills, chemical facilities, food companies, etc.

The two types of custom designed tests are for either technical jobs (contain craft knowledge and skills) or basic skills (contain reading, arithmetic, problem solving, process monitoring, and troubleshooting). In the development of these tests we conduct content-related validation studies for your specific organization. For more information please speak with our consultants at (412) 257-0732.

Custom-Designed Technical Test
  • Product: Craft 120 item Paper-and-Pencil Test
    (e.g., Machinist, Electrician, Mobile Equipment Mechanic, etc.)
  • Documentation: Content Validation Report in UGOESP (1978) Format

More Information about the Technical Test Validation Procedure

Custom-Designed Apprentice or Trainee Selection Tests
  • Product: Reading Test, Arithmetic Test, Troubleshooting Test, etc.
  • Documentation: Content Validation Report in UGOESP (1978) Format

More Information about the Basic Skills Test Validation Procedure