The Importance of Feedback Following Psychometric Assessments for Hiring Organisation

The Importance of Feedback Following Psychometric Assessments – Part 2: Hiring Organisation

Have you ever looked at a psychometric testing report and wondered what this means for you and your team? If you have, did you have the opportunity to read between the lines and really discuss how this information matches to what you have seen in the interview?

Receiving verbal feedback after psychometric testing can have huge benefits, both for the candidate undertaking the assessment, as well as for the hiring managers and recruiters who are deciding whether or not to hire them.

While authored and bespoke psychometric reports provide useful information about the candidate’s preferences, strengths, and development areas against a set of competencies and for the role more broadly, we always offer a verbal debrief and discussion about the results for the following reasons:

• It provides hiring managers with the opportunity to ask questions, clarify information (particularly abilities results), and dig into the raw data further to help them understand the candidate’s fit to the role and team;
• Hiring managers can provide extra information about the team and working environment to contextualise the results and better understand candidate fit;
• Having a discussion can help to minimise any misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the results, particularly for hiring managers who are new to psychometric testing or who did not read the report fully;
• It gives the debriefer and hiring manager an opportunity to discuss ways to support the onboarding and ongoing development of their successful candidate;
• Digging into the results and talking through them in more detail can help when deciding between the final few candidates;
• For recruiters trying to get hiring managers on board with psychometric testing, these debriefs can help get buy-in as they see the value of the insights testing provides; and
• Debriefing with an external consultant provides an independent third party perspective from someone outside the hiring organisation and process.

Because feedback is so important and beneficial, we always offer this to hiring managers and recruiters as part of our standard service and at no additional cost. If you would like to find out more about our psychometric assessment services and feedback, please get in touch with our team today.