Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Online Skill Assessment

Finding the right candidate for the job is a tedious task today due to the large number of applicants. Choosing the right candidate for the job is a crucial decision for any company. In fact, according to a study conducted by the Harvard Business School, making poor hiring decisions can cost a company as much as three times an employee's annual compensation package. Thus most of the companies resort to skill assessment which is a method to evaluate the candidate before making the hiring decision. There are various forms of skills assessment like management skills, people skills, communication skills and technical skills. Skill assessment, tests when used in conjunction with an interview and the manager's intuition is one of the very good ways of finding the right candidate.

Today the internet has almost become indispensable online skill assessment is becoming more and more popular for companies and recruitment firms. And it is really simple to use as all you need is an internet connection and a web browser, no software needs to be downloaded. Geek evaluation is one such tool, which helps you to evaluate the technical skills of your candidate once you have short listed them. Geek evaluation helps you customize your own tests or choose questions from their huge question bank and evaluates the candidate based on the results at very affordable rates. The questions presented to the candidates are random and of varying levels of difficulty. And their results can be easily analyzed by topics as well as level of difficulty. For more details log on to our website at www.geekevaluation.com or please email at shruti.sharma@geekevaluation.com for login details if you would like to have a tour of the application.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Job Interviews

Job Interviews!! I guess we are all familiar with this phrase and this is one step that all candidates need to undergo before landing the dream job. Job interviews have been around from the late 16th century. And the method of taking a job interview has changed a lot since then. Today in most companies there are different interview rounds and pre employment tests. Some of the different interview rounds are Personal Interview, Behavioral Interview, Stress Interview and also the very important Technical Interview. For most software firms the result of the technical interview is important to make the hiring decision. Most companies do look for a tool, which would help them making this test taking process less cumbersome, secure and some tool which could also evaluate the test results. Geek evaluation is an excellent tool for the same and is perfect for screening of candidates before hiring. It helps and allows companies to customize their own tests at very affordable rates. The question bank has been designed by experienced software engineers and programmers. For more details do visit our website athttp://www.geekevaluation.com.