Pre-employment tests: what every job seeker should know - FOX 18
Quad Cities News and Weather  Pre-employment tests: what every
job seeker should know  Posted: Updated:  A heightened quest for
information on prospective employees, coupled with the increased
ease to administer assessments, means that job seekers are more
and more likely to face some form of a pre-hire evaluation as
part of the hiring process.  "Pre-employment assessments have
been one way to help companies make sense of who they have in
the pipeline," says Brian Penner, director of assessment and
selection at Prudential Financial. "More and more companies have
developed a strong appetite for measuring how people think and
act - just think about Facebook to see the value in this. Pre-
employment assessments provide information on difficult-to-
measure human behaviors that give employers the ability to
easily compare one candidate with another in an objective way."
Penner notes that it is important for job seekers to remain
confident if asked to