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Make Assessments and Testing part of your Recruitment Strategy
Posted On October 29, 2025
You have excellent applicants for your vacancy, but how do you identify the ideal fit for your team and business?
Assessments and testing provide measurable insights to help you make confident, evidence-based hiring decisions. These tools add real value to the recruitment process by supporting the selection, recruitment, and retention of a motivated, engaged team.
At PN Personnel we recommend three ways to test and assess the ability of a job seeker:
- Computer Assessments
- Ability Testing
- Personality Assessments
Each option is simple to administer online, providing reliable, measurable results that offer a deeper understanding of your applicants’ skills, capabilities, and personality traits.
Computer Assessments
Verify digital competency before you hire.
Our computer assessments confirm an applicant’s ability to perform essential digital tasks, from Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel to data entry and light industrial skills.
With digital capability now a requirement for most roles, we can tailor assessments across a wide range of positions, from administration to warehousing.
Ability Testing
Measure reasoning, logic, and learning potential.
Ability testing evaluates an applicant’s abstract, verbal, and numerical reasoning skills, providing insight into how they learn, think, and problem-solve. Unlike computer assessments, these tests measure potential and cognitive ability rather than technical skill.
Personality Assessments
Understand what motivates and drives your people.
Also known as psychometric assessments, these tools reveal an applicant’s natural tendencies, motivators, and work style, helping you identify who will fit best within your existing team culture.
Using the Perspectives assessment, we measure personality traits and preferences to support effective hiring decisions. The Drivers assessment goes a step further, offering insight into what motivates individuals, which is valuable for professional development, training, and leadership pathways.
Reduce the risk
Assessments and testing can be seamlessly integrated into your recruitment process, in partnership with PN Personnel, or as a standalone service to meet your specific business needs.
They provide unbiased, reliable, and relevant insights into an applicant’s likelihood of job success and satisfaction. This leads to more informed hiring decisions, reducing selection errors, turnover, training costs, and workplace stress.
With a wide range of
assessments and testing at our fingertips, our team can recommend the right tools for your business and role to improve recruitment results.
Talk to the PN Personnel team today about adding assessments and testing to your recruitment strategy.
Matt Smout
Having extensive experience as an end to end recruiter, account manager, people leader and in business development – Matt has excellent knowledge of the 360-degree recruitment process and how to partner to understand your business and add real value.
Passionate about what he does Matt gets a real buzz from getting to know his client’s business and assisting their growth by providing tailored talent solutions.
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