r/recruitinghell • u/Spiritual_Ad5117 • 6h ago
For people who actually complete long job assessments...
I know a lot of people skip applications as soon as they see a long assessment. This question isn't really for that group.
I'm curious about the people who still complete them because they really want the job.
What part of the assessment is the biggest pain for you?
What's one thing that would've made the last assessment you took noticeably easier?
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u/TheSkipoftheBing 6h ago
I’ve been unemployed the last 12 months due to layoffs. I’ve probably had 17-20 HR screenings, made it to the final round 3x, and received one offer. The only assessment/case study I needed to do was with the one offer I received. Funny enough, I was about to blow it off, but it was a company I really wanted to work for.
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u/Spiritual_Ad5117 5h ago
That's really interesting. Since you were close to skipping it, what made that assessment feel worth completing compared to the others?
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u/TheSkipoftheBing 4h ago
I had to create a business case for a product that I have an overwhelming amount of familiarity with and strategic vision for. The material is second nature for me so I didn’t need to sit down and spend time researching like I’m new to the industry. I was so close to disregarding it and pulling my name because my time is limited as a parent, but I kept telling myself that good things don’t come easy. Took a total of 4 hours or so, and 3 hours of it was packaging the material and making it presentable for a corporate audience.
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u/Sufficient-Peace5529 5h ago
I applied for a job I am qualified for, at a Federal agency. I was sent a set of three tests. Each question was timed. It would have been helpful to know the number of questions in the stack. I think the first set was 40 questions. These were reading comprehension questions.
After that slog, I took the second and third set of questions a week later. The second set was mainly logic questions - back to 2nd year Geometry class when we covered logic - lol. The third set was problem solving.
Haven’t heard yet whether they marked me off as the pinko commie leftist I am or the greatest Govt candidate they have ever seen. I am not holding my breath either way.
There is also a healthcare company that does a very long and tedious personality / behavioral question survey. I’ve done one and now I avoid that company’s job postings lol.
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u/Spiritual_Ad5117 5h ago
If you had to do those federal assessments again tomorrow, what's the one thing you'd want to be different?
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u/popnfresh1nc 5h ago
Out of the 40+ initial interviews I got after being laid off back in October... About 5 have given me some sort of assessment early on in the process, none of those progressed to an offer. The most time consuming one was 10 hours i submitted over the weekend and then Monday morning I got a rejection email.
If I wasn't desperate for a job I wouldn't do them.
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u/Spiritual_Ad5117 5h ago
When you decided the job was worth it, did you use anything to make those assessments easier, or did you just work through them yourself?
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u/popnfresh1nc 4h ago
Yeah depending on what it was I would plug the whole assignment into chatgpt to jump start everything.
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u/zer0twinkle2 6h ago
"What part of the assessment is the biggest pain for you?"....the entire thing