Comments on: Annual Online Screening and Assessment User Survey Results, Part 2 http://www.ere.net/2004/03/11/annual-online-screening-and-assessment-user-survey-results-part-2/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:35:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ram Kidambi http://www.ere.net/2004/03/11/annual-online-screening-and-assessment-user-survey-results-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-318 Ram Kidambi Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:54:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2004/03/11/annual-online-screening-and-assessment-user-survey-results-part-2/#comment-318 Dr Handler's survey has brought out a very important point viz.. Understanding the ROI on human capital expense as one of the main obstacles to the usage of online assessment tools. There is no known/popular tool to assess the Capex on human capital and till some progress on this front happens it will continue to be a dark area. Besides, assessment tools can not be generic. For proper results, the tools have to take cognizance of the job/role, Industry/company's unique requirements as well as various other environmental factors like whether the job is in an urban/rural setting. A pharma sales man is different from a health care sales man who is different from an industrial product salesman. To that extent the tools should vary. Likewise requirements of NewYork city will be different from that of New Delhi because the cultural factors are significantly different and can infulence the assessment.<BR><BR>You can read the original article at: <BR>http://www.erexchange.com/a/d.asp?cid=54DFD925EC6147088E0C4ADF37641B8D <BR><BR>Post your own Article Review<BR>http://www.erexchange.com/p/g.asp?d=M&cid=54DFD925EC6147088E0C4ADF37641B8D <BR> Dr Handler’s survey has brought out a very important point viz.. Understanding the ROI on human capital expense as one of the main obstacles to the usage of online assessment tools. There is no known/popular tool to assess the Capex on human capital and till some progress on this front happens it will continue to be a dark area.

Besides, assessment tools can not be generic. For proper results, the tools have to take cognizance of the job/role, Industry/company’s unique requirements as well as various other environmental factors like whether the job is in an urban/rural setting. A pharma sales man is different from a health care sales man who is different from an industrial product salesman. To that extent the tools should vary. Likewise requirements of NewYork city will be different from that of New Delhi because the cultural factors are significantly different and can infulence the assessment.

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