Manaing Hiring: How Testing Can Ease the Burden of Hiring

Manaing Hiring:
How Testing Can Ease the Burden of Hiring

By: Tom Ramsay

This 2007 whitepaper, discusses how testing can be used to help hire maintenance workers and strategies for dealing with the ensuing skilled labor shortage. Below is a diagram that outlines the use of tests in the hiring process.

In this whitepaper following topics are highlighted:

Finding applicants
Applicant assessment techniques
Training as a backup
Training strategies

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Test Use

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Selecting the Right Test - This article walks you through the test selection process and teaches you about the various types of testing and how you can find the best test for your needs.
Why use muliple choice tests? - This article describes why we feel multiple choice tests are an excellent tool for use in hiring selection and implementing training plans and pay-for-knowledge programs.
Diagnosing Training Needs - This article explains how test use can help determine knowledge areas that need improvement in your maintenance force.

Tom Ramsay Roland T. (Tom) Ramsay, our principal consultant, founded Ramsay Corporation in May of 1973. Prior to that he had been Staff Supervisor of Employment & Placement in the Office of the Vice Chairman of the Board at United States Steel Corporation. He was also a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Dr. Ramsay is a licensed psychologist and is a Diplomate in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is author of Management's Guide to Effective Employment Interviewing and Management's Guide to Effective Employment Testing, both published by Dartnell. Tom has more than 30 years of human resources work experience.