Most Indian companies prefer using online assessment tools for employee engagement, while only few use them for hiring purposes, according to a report by Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
The SHRM & Mettl (an online assessment platform to measure, analyse and improve people skills) Report, titled "India online assessment report 2014-2015", while a number of online assessment tools are available in market, many firms are still are apprehensive to use them for various reasons.
Around 36.09 per cent of organisations prefer face-face assessments/interviews rather than online assessment due to inability of the candidate to take online test.
Moreover, about 26.32 per cent of the organisations avoid usage of online assessment tools due to the cost involved in procurement and administration.
Only 23.82 per cent of the organisations mentioned they have had good experience in using online assessment tools with the bulk being large organisations.
"Organisations are increasingly realising the importance of online assessment tools and most of them are using these for employee engagement and training. However, these tools are yet to find favour with most firms in their pre-hiring process," Achal Khanna CEO SHRM India Operations said.
According to the report, around 70.53 per cent firms do provide online assessment insights to hiring managers, helping them with reference points for future hiring.
While, 23.82 per cent of the organisations have had good experience in using online assessment tools, out of which 61.6 per cent are large organisations.
