All right, so let's see the selection depths that you can conduct before hiring a candidate. The tests are conducted for checking the employee's suitability for a particular role. Now, some of these tests are industry specific and may not be required in other industries. So, before conducting them, you should consider the kind of industry or organization you are working in. The test questions are generally prepared by senior talent management professionals or respective department heads for which the candidate is being interviewed. So, basically there are four kinds of tests that can be taken before or during the selection process.

First is intelligence test. Obviously, this test helps to change the intelligence quotient or IQ of a candidate. Based on this, you can check the decision making ability. This test helps the talent management to know better and employee is a quick learner observer, and it's different from employees. Next is personality test. Basically, this test is done to know whether an employee would be able to add just in a company or not.

Personality test would help you in assessing the personal traits of a candidate. Say for example, emotional stability, patients attitude, values, majority and ability to get along with others. Then comes aptitude test. This test is done for checking whether a candidate would be able to learn the skills for a specific job profile. aptitude test is generally taken for technical profiles like software engineers developers, etc, as this test helps to know how much a candidate would be able to learn and achieve in the future. Next is the trade test.

This is where the actual skills or abilities are tested. This test helps to know about the qualities that a person already has. For example, if you conduct a trait test for a candidate who's suitable for the profile of content marketing manager, how will you assess his ability you will be checking in a velocity related to marketing of content, or what strategies he has used in the past and what results he has delivered. So, for conducting a great test, you can ask the candidate to show his previous results, or give them a small task lead to marketing the content on a platform like Facebook based on the type of job profile or position, you can conduct one or two of these selection tests, or even all of them. before you move on to the next section, I want to congratulate you on coming so far in this course, you are doing really, really well.

I appreciate your efforts, keep learning, keep growing. I'll see you in the next section.