{"id":9923,"date":"2020-05-11T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmkedev.wpengine.com\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:45:13","slug":"50-reasons-why-skills-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/50-reasons-why-skills-assessments","title":{"rendered":"50 Reasons Why Employers Use BrighterMonday: Reason 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The BrighterMonday Skills Assessment<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a hiring manager or an employer, getting employees who can deliver on what is expected in a role is key when hiring. Most of the time it is a gamble because a CV is usually just a promise on paper. Like most employers, you might have ended up with a \u201clion on the CV and cat on the job\u201d kind of scenario and it cost your company more cleaning up the mess.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be sure of the talent you are bringing in, you might want to consider <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/employer\/skills-assessments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The BrighterMonday skills assessment<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tool. This tool tests candidates applying for a job you post on BrighterMonday for core competencies and hard skills required for the specific role. These tests are curated by experts in specific industry and are up-to-date with current industry specifications.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The candidates\u2019 results will be available to you in the Applicant Tracking System which is accessible on your <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/employer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">employer account<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. You can then view the expertise levels of all candidates who applied for the job you posted. You can also filter the results displayed on your backend into categories that make more sense to your business needs and quickly come up with a shortlist of the candidates you wish to interview.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, there you have it, <\/span><b>The BrighterMonday Skills Assessment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tool, here to help you look beyond the CV. This is one of the 50 reasons why employers choose BrighterMonday, as depicted in the short video below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"50 Reasons Why Employers Choose BrighterMonday: #1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJNxb2VxuBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BrighterMonday Skills Assessment As a hiring manager or an employer, getting employees who can deliver on what is expected in a role is key when hiring. Most of the time it is a gamble because a CV is usually just a promise on paper. Like most employers, you might have ended up with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":9926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"content_author":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-employers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"content_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_author?post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}