Benefits of Psychometric Test
• Provide the deep information of candidates which cannot be measured by interviews
• Psychometric testing saves employers time and money
• Provides a true picture of candidates
• Treat all candidates equally
• Psychometric testing can be used at any stage of the application process
• Can measure skills and abilities, not just education
Disadvantages of psychometric Test
• Measuring method may not effective
• Some candidates are more experienced in sitting for test
• Incompatible with different cultural people
• Must be measured properly
• False answers
Use of Psychometric Test in Sri Lanka
• Hummingbird International
• Intercontinental Institute of Human Resource Management (IIHRM)
• Uni agents
• ASSI Testing Centre
Organization who use psychometric test for recruitment
• Sri Lankan Air Lines
• KPMG
• DFCC bank
Conclusion
Other than non-profitable organisation, All other companies are trying to maximise their profits. In order to achieve these goals, the organisations must have proper strategic plans. As discussed above, quality of the employees is the key factor in HRM. Past few decades human resources managers have been trying to resolve the main problem they uncounted, which is recruit and select the most suitable candidate for the position. Because employees who are selected through the typical selection tools as mentioned earlier, tend to show the low performance in the work place.With evolution of the psychometric test, Recruitment and the selection process become easier for the human resources managers to select the perfect candidate for the vacant position, since it can reveal the untold stories about the employee. Therefore it helps organisation to move toward the direction where the company wants to be with the quality and skillful employees.
