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Skills-assessment companies
Articles in Assessments & Testing written specifically for skills-assessment companies.
Construct-Irrelevant Variance: When a Coding Test Measures Typing Speed Instead of Coding Skill
A candidate who codes well but types slowly, or who's unfamiliar with a specific IDE's quirks, can score poorly on a coding assessment for reasons that have nothing to do with coding ability.
Faking Good: Why Job Applicants Answer Personality Inventories Differently Than They'd Answer for Themselves
The same person answers an identical personality inventory differently depending on whether they're taking it for genuine self-insight or to get a job — and the job-context version is measurably more favorable.
Why a Skills Test That Correlates with Job Performance Can Still Be Illegal to Use
The claim that a test predicts performance is a common and incomplete defense of a skills assessment — it answers the validity question but not the job-relatedness and business-necessity questions regulators actually ask.