The science behind TestGorilla
Explore how we use industry-leading science to shake up how to hire
Best practices for setting up asynchronous video interviews
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data science, psychometric experts, and assessment development specialists with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. Over the years, organizations have introduced various technologies to their recruitment and personnel selection processes in an effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the likelihood of a successful hire. As one of the most widely util
Revisiting the validity of different hiring tools: New insights into what works best
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data science, psychometric experts, and assessment development specialists with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. Employers are in the prediction business: They have to predict whether a candidate will be successful in a job based on limited information about their capabilities. To improve the accuracy of these predictions, it helps to prioritize hiring tools (e.g
Science glossary
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data science, psychometric experts and assessment development specialists with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. At TestGorilla, we take a deeply scientific and rigorous approach to the development, monitoring, and improvement of the tests in our test library. There’s a bunch of assessment science-related jargon related to these processes, so we’ve put together th
How to select tests for an assessment (and avoid a skill overlap)
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. If you’re using TestGorilla to create an assessment and you’re seeking guidance in selecting tests, then this is the blog post for you. Read on for concise recommendations from our Assessment Team regarding how to select tests for an assessment – and how to avoid skill or construct overlaps with
How can valid, reliable employee selection tests minimize selection errors and increase selection hits?
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. If you read our previous blog post about selection error, you’ll remember that we defined exactly what it is and explained that you can make better hiring decisions by reducing it. Here, we’re taking it one step further. In this post, we’ll expand on those points by showing you how using valid,
Legal risk and skills-based hiring: The legal defensibility of TestGorilla’s assessments
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data science, psychometric experts and assessment development specialists with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. In order to maintain legal compliance, avoid potential legal challenges, and participate ethically and responsibly in assessment practices, organizations must ensure that their assessment practices are legally defensible. If assessment practices are co
What is selection error and how do you minimize it during hiring?
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. When making selection decisions about applicants, organizations aim to maximize selection hits (a correct hiring decision) and minimize selection misses (an incorrect hiring decision). Hiring a candidate who will perform well, or declining to hire a candidate who will not, is considered a hit; h
How to prepare for a criterion-related validation study
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data science, psychometric experts and assessment development specialists with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. Criterion-related validity is essential to ensuring that pre-employment tests are predictive of an employee's job performance. Criterion-related validation studies help to scientifically evaluate and confirm what we typically assume in the selection con
A brief introduction to: Test validation
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. At TestGorilla, we’re always working to improve the accuracy and reliability of our pre-hiring assessments to ensure a fair and bias-free screening experience for both candidates and employers. In this science series article, we’ll take a look at why test validation plays such a crucial role in
A brief introduction to: Behavioral competencies
Over the past months, we have been hard at work experimenting with the best way to integrate comprehensive behavioral competencies into our talent assessment software. Read on to find out why we embarked on this initiative, what exciting offerings we have planned, and what that means for you. What are the critical factors that separate average employees from the most successful hires? A growing body of evidence shows that a collection of behaviors known as behavioral competencies could be key t
A brief introduction to: Test order
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. TestGorilla takes a deeply scientific and multi-layered approach to creating tests for skills-based hiring. This series of brief introductions aims to conjure transparency when it comes to how we build our tests and how we advise they are used. In this post, we’ll introduce you to test order and
A brief introduction to: Candidate satisfaction
Science series materials are brought to you by TestGorilla’s Assessment Team: A group of IO psychology, data, and psychometric experts with a deep understanding of the science behind skills-based hiring. TestGorilla takes a deeply scientific and multi-layered approach to creating tests for skills-based hiring. This series of brief introductions aims to conjure transparency when it comes to how we build our tests and how we advise they are used. In this post, we’ll introduce you to candidate sat
