So, I’m sure there are certain roles where assessment tests make sense. I had a data entry job in high school that required a WPM test and that was a logical way for them to see how fast people could type without making mistakes.
That being said, the line of work I’ve been doing for the past 17 years uses a handful of programs with a huge range of use and the couple of assessment tests I’ve taken were using the programs in ways that hadn’t applied to my previous jobs, however if you’ve worked with those programs for as long as I have, it’s very easy to learn those new functions on-the-job.
To me, it’s incredibly rigid to expect a perspective employee to preemptively know how to do a job before they’ve even interviewed and I hard pass job postings that require I complete assessment tests anymore. If I’ve been working with them for this long, obviously I have enough knowledge of them to learn how you want me to use them.
Is it just that they have a poor understanding of what the job entails? Do they not have anyone there to train me? It sure sounds that way, and if so, no thanks.