Do you know how much a bad hire costs your company? In an article by SHRM, they reported that the cost of recruiting, hiring, and onboarding a single new employee can be as much as $240,000. While that might seem high, think about all the costs associated with a bad hire: recruiting time, training fees, negative impact on team performance, weakened employer brand, and other factors all add up. So, what can you do to identify and avoid a potentially bad hire? Enter online proctoring solutions.
Pre-hire assessments with online proctoring solutions enable you to measure an applicant’s skills and identify potential instances of cheating before beginning the interview process. With these tools, you can get a better view of your candidates and screen out potential bad fits.
Here’s how online proctoring can improve your overall hiring process:
Better Test Integrity – To accurately measure a candidate’s results on a pre-hire assessment, the tests should occur on an even playing field. Every applicant should have an equal opportunity to perform up to their standard. One obstacle to good test integrity is candidate cheating. Online proctoring can reduce cheating through live or automated tools. Live proctoring means a test professional watches candidates take the test in real time and identifies cheating as it happens – just like a teacher watches students take an exam. Automatic tools, like ID checks, ensure the person taking the test is really who they say they are. Tools like these maintain test consistency and let you judge candidates based on their actual, legitimate performance.
More Ethical Hires – According to the Legal Research Network, workplace misconduct costs US business $20 billion annually and leads to a decrease in productivity for up to 66% of workers. Whether it’s fraud, harassment, or general misconduct, unethical employees have a huge negative impact on coworkers and organizational performance. So, what can you do to reduce the potential for unethical employees? One way is to institute online test proctoring before making a hire. Online proctoring flags cheating during pre-hire tests by measuring behaviors like tab switching, using multiple devices, or identifying copy and paste actions. These tools identify candidates with a potential for future unethical behavior. Once identified, you can weed out these candidates and increase your chances of hiring a qualified candidate.
Hiring Compliance – Online proctoring tools also lead to compliance with EEOC guidelines or organizational standards. Employers without buttoned up hiring practices can find themselves open to legal liability. By measuring hard skills in a validated setting (via proctoring), you can prove that you are hiring based off qualifications instead of potential biases.
The cost of a bad hire can be astronomical. Organizations need to use every tool at their disposal to identify qualified candidates and hire accordingly. By leveraging pre-hire assessments backed by online proctoring tools, companies can have confidence in their test results, hire ethical candidates, and meet hiring rules and regulations.
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