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New Web Sites Enable Employers to Test the Skills of Job Applicants
03/ 28/ 2002


When employers are hiring for positions that demand specific knowledge or skills, it can be burdensome and expensive to bring in applicants, test them for strengths and weaknesses, and allocate time for review of the tests. Such testing is essential, however, because nothing is more aggravating than hiring new employees then finding out that they lack skills they said they had. New online testing services can take this uncertainty off employers. In today's Workshop, contributor Jeffrey Moses reviews the services of Brainbench.com, which offers an impressive array of tests that can help employers evaluate applicants quickly, efficiently and accurately.
Accessing www.brainbench.com leads you to the new world of online evaluation of applicants. The methodology of the site is straightforward: when you need to determine an applicant's skills in crucial software, financial, or language areas, simply request them to log onto Brainbench and take the appropriate test(s). At no charge to them, applicants access the tests by logging on with a specific I.D.

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