Human Resources Manager Test
The Human Resources Manager Test is a comprehensive pre-employment screening tool designed to evaluate top-level candidates who will be responsible for overseeing company compliance, recruitment, and employee development. The test assesses critical managerial qualities such as assertive leadership, corporate ethics, communication skills, composure under pressure, and problem-solving abilities. Depending on the version chosen, the assessment scales from a 30-minute Personality Only screen to an in-depth, 2-hour Core+ battery consisting of a 157-question personality inventory, a 44-item cognitive aptitude test (verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning), and 35 open-ended, short-answer statements.
About this Test
Hire human resources managers with great ethics and organizational skills with this pre-employment test.
The Human Resources Manager Test is a comprehensive pre-employment screening tool designed to evaluate top-level candidates who will be responsible for overseeing company compliance, recruitment, and employee development. The test assesses critical managerial qualities such as assertive leadership, corporate ethics, communication skills, composure under pressure, and problem-solving abilities. Depending on the version chosen, the assessment scales from a 30-minute Personality Only screen to an in-depth, 2-hour Core+ battery consisting of a 157-question personality inventory, a 44-item cognitive aptitude test (verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning), and 35 open-ended, short-answer statements.
Purpose
The Human Resources Manager tests help identify top level candidates responsible for overseeing compliance, recruiting, and employee development for your company. A curated personality profile highlights key behaviors such as assertive leadership, effective interpersonal communication, employee motivation, workplace positivity, composure under pressure, and adherence to best practices. The addition of aptitude and sentence completion components assess general problem-solving and analytic abilities, workplace attitudes and motivator.
What It’s Best Used For
- Screening senior people operations leaders: Evaluating candidates for high-level oversight roles including HR Managers, Directors of Human Resources, Chief Human Resources Officers (CHRO), and People Operations Managers.
- Evaluating leadership and communication style: Assessing an applicant’s innate ability to motivate employees, handle workplace conflict, and project positivity while enforcing company best practices.
- Measuring cognitive problem-solving: Utilizing the Core or Core+ versions to verify a manager’s baseline verbal, analytical, numerical, and abstract reasoning capabilities under corporate pressure.
- Uncovering workplace motivations and attitudes: Reviewing a candidate’s typed answers to the short-answer statements (in Core+) to reveal hidden professional motivators and alignment with company culture.
- Tailoring face-to-face interviews: Exploiting the test’s instantly generated online report to review structural candidate strengths, red flags, and custom-generated interview prompts.
- Guiding internal promotions: Helping executive teams make data-backed choices when advancing internal talent into workforce management, recruitment leadership, or supervisory tiers.
This test is legal for use in Canada.
Versions
Personality
Core
- An untimed personality assessment targeting behaviors specific to this type of job.
- An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)
Core+
An in-depth, comprehensive screening created for HR manager candidates in a variety of work environments. The test battery includes:
- An untimed personality assessment targets behaviors specific to this type of job.
- An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)
- An untimed set of open-ended statements to which the candidate has to type in a short answer
About the Human Resources Manager Test
This test battery has three parts and takes approximately two hours to complete:
- 157 question untimed personality inventory
- 44 item test of mental ability (divided among verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning questions)
- 35 open-ended statements to which the candidate must type in short answers
What the Report Gives You
A graphical display of personality trait scores, feedback regarding strengths and developmental concerns, an explanation of aptitude results, a display of narrative responses given to the open-ended statements, and suggested interview questions.
Testing Process
- Immediate score report upon completion.
- Proctoring desirable but not required.
- The use of mobile phones is discouraged.
Target Group
These tests are appropriate for use when hiring for the positions of HR Manager, as well as Chief Human Resources Officer, Human Resources and Administration Manager, Human Resources Director, HR Supervisor, Manager of Human Resources, People Operations Manager, People Services Manager, Recruiting, Development, and Retention Manager, Talent Manager, and Workforce Manager, among other roles involved in leading a firm’s employee recruitment, engagement and development efforts.
Options
Contact us to learn how we can customize the test content for your hiring process or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.
Sample Questions
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