Benefits
Online testing is a fast growing tool across areas including recruitment, training, assessment, accreditation, compliance, E-Learning and education.
With the advance of secure online applications and availability of internal or external candidates to the internet, it represents a hugely efficient and effective medium for providing and reviewing tests.
Just some of the benefits of online testing include:
- Significant saving in time and money
- Efficient assessment of skills or knowledge
- Analyse results, by test, question or individuaI
- ldentify skills gaps
- Make informed decisions that add value
There are lots of areas where online testing and The Test Factory are used, each with their own benefits:
Benefits by sector
Recruitment
- Identify candidates with the right ability and best fit for roles, quickly and easily
- Select the right candidates for more expensive parts of the recruitment process with online screening, knowledge and skills testing
- Dramatically reduce the cost and time of hiring
- Enable candidates to deselect themselves, saving time and money, if they do not have the appropriate skills
- In depth analysis to identify most suitable candidates and any areas of weakness; matched against actual role (e.g. report on top 10 candidates, if scored over 70% on section C, excluded if question 6 is incorrect, and ranked by score on section D)
- Favourable application process for candidates too
- Protection against discrimination claims by unsuccessful candidates
- Reduce the chance, time and cost of bad hires
Training
- Determine the success of training for individuals and entire audience
- Provide tangible results from training
- Identify need for further training and support
- Highlight outstanding individual performances
Assessment
- Identify skills gaps of individuals and organisations
- Highlight employees/candidates with the most ability
- Identify further training and support needs
- Build and maintain individual records to demonstrate development and needs
- Analyse suitability for promotion or internal job applications
Accreditation
- Provide cost effective accreditation program to employees, customers or partners
- Test knowledge of products or company
- Reward with accreditation
- Identify knowledge gaps across individuals and groups
- Ascertain training and support requirements
Compliance
- Robust and effective compliance with minimal cost and time
- Demonstrate and prove knowledge of individuals and groups both internally and externally
- Provides protection for the organisation
- Identify individuals who fall short of requirements
- Analyse areas for training and support
E-Learning
- Supports learning programmes
- Demonstrable results from e-Learning activities
- Identify when candidates have passed or completed modules
- Controls progress of candidates who are not ready to proceed
- Cost effective and immediate
- Tests administered at the pace of the candidate
- Analyse individual and group performances
- Highlights improvement to e-Learning programme
Education
- Supports education programmes
- Demonstrable results from education
- Measure and manage progress of pupils
- Simple to build bespoke tests
- Tests administered at required pace for the group or individual
- Analyse individual and group performances
- Highlights areas to focus education programme
- Many pupils find online testing less intimidating than traditional tests
- Online testing saves time, money and paper