Behavioural assessment adoption increasing in current trend in hiring: Survey

Adaptability, sociability, team work, persistence, persuasiveness, creativity, conscientiousness and organisational skills have been found as  key competencies of the job roles across different industry segments, said the survey conducted by MeritTrac Research.

"Assessment of these 8 behaviors is found to be important at workplace, as they individually or in clusters, are essential for performance of any given job role, at the entry level," read the report.

"It is important to assess these 8 behaviors as they are integral to perform well on entry level jobs across any function/ sector.For higher functions, an employee has to work towards shared organizational culture and values dealing with initiating and adapting to change, problem solving, creating new solutions, communicating, and aligning people to shared goals. Specific traits such as compassion, conscientiousness and persuasive skills define the success of some job roles. Organizations also want to identify employees with low risk taking behavior, high commitment to organization and perceived job fit to help reduce attrition," read the report.

The reports said the recruitment drives behaviour assessment results were largely used as inputs rather than decision making tools.

"The use of behavior assessments was a common practice for hiring senior and leadership job roles, but now using them for the entry level jobs marks the
beginning of the change that will be seen in hiring," it said.

The report said hiring individuals with some work experience would be suitable for creative jobs.

"Women were seen to perform well on job roles that require creativity, persistence and being organized ( Teaching, advertising, designing, architecture, etc., )," it said.

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