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How to Create and Manage Assessment Tests for Candidates

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Through Mekari Talenta Recruitment, in addition to the MBTI personality test, you can now create and manage other candidate assessments yourself. These assessments can use multiple-choice, long-text, or numerical answer types. With this feature, recruiters can more easily send assessments and monitor their results through a single platform: Mekari Talenta Recruitment. 

Follow the steps below to create and manage assessments provided on the Assessments page.

A. Creating an Assessment for Candidates

  1. Go to the Assessments menu.

  2. Click “Create assessment” to create a new assessment.

  3. You will be directed to the Create Assessment page. In the first step, you are asked to complete the Assessment informations, which contains information about the assessment for candidates. The following is an explanation.

No. Button/Field Name Description
1. Assessment name Enter the name of this assessment.
2. Description Enter a description of this assessment.
3. Duration to complete assessment Enter the duration given to candidates to complete this assessment in minutes.
4. Question navigation 

The section for setting how candidates can move between questions while taking the assessment. The following is an explanation:

  • Enable skipping questions: Move the toggle to allow candidates to skip or leave a question unanswered and continue to the next question. Example: When a candidate encounters a difficult calculation question at number 3, they can skip the question without selecting an answer and continue directly to question number 4. 
  • Allow back to previous question: Move the toggle to allow candidates to return to the previous question and change their answer. Example: A candidate who is on question number 5 wants to review or change their answer to question number 4, so they can return to question number 4 even though they are already on the page for question number 5.
  • Enable jumping to any question: Move the toggle to allow candidates to move directly to any question through the question navigation. Example: If a candidate wants to skip question number 2 and go directly to question number 10, which they consider easier, they can simply click question number 10 in the question navigation list.
5. Measured capabilities Enter the specific capabilities assessed in this test, with a maximum of 10 (ten) capabilities.
6. Assessment instruction Enter special instructions for candidates to understand the assessment procedures.

  1. Once you have completed the information, click “Continue”.

  2. Next, in the second step, Add question, you can add questions by clicking “Create Question”. Several question types will then appear for you to choose from.

     

    No. Button/Field Name Description
    1. Multiple choice

    Select this question type to create a multiple-choice question. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear, which you can complete using the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question name: Enter the question.

    2. Answer type: Select one answer type based on the number of correct answers. Single correct answer means that only one answer is correct, while Multiple correct answer means that more than one answer is correct.

    3. Options: Complete the multiple-choice answer options, then click the “circle” icon to select the correct answer.

    4. Delete: Click this icon to delete an answer option.

    5. Add option: Click to add an answer option.

    6. Create another question: Select this option to immediately create another multiple-choice question after saving this question.

    7. Save: Click to save the question.
    2. Essay

    Select this question type to create a long-answer question. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear, which you can complete using the following examples and explanations.

    1. Add option: Enter the question.

    2. Create another question: Select this option to immediately create another long-answer question after saving this question.

    3. Save: Click to save the question.
    3. Number

    Select this question type to create a question that can only be answered with numbers. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear, which you can complete using the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question name: Enter the question.
    2. Right answer: Enter the correct answer (numbers only).

    3. Create another question: Select this option to immediately create another long-answer question after saving this question.

    4. Save: Click to save the question.

  3. The following is an example of completed questions. You can view each question and its question type in the respective question tables. In the table, you can reorder the questions by dragging and dropping the columns (drag and drop). Click the “pencil” icon to edit the question and its answers. To delete it, click “-”. In addition, you can click “Shuffle question” to shuffle the questions for each candidate to whom the assessment is sent.

Important
As shown in the example above, an assessment can contain various question types. You can also create an assessment with only one question type.

  1. Once the questions have been arranged appropriately, click “Publish” to save the questions and make them ready to be sent directly to candidates. Alternatively, if you still want to modify the questions and do not want to publish them yet, click “Save as draft” to finish them later.

  2. The assessment is successfully created and saved in the Assessments list.

B. Managing Created Candidate Assessments

  1. On the Assessments page, you can filter the assessment list by status by clicking “All status”. There is also a filter for the date when the questions were last modified under “Select date”. To make it easier to find an assessment, you can also enter its name in “Select assessment name” , also commonly known as the Search bar.

  2. To change the details or modify specific questions, click “Actions”, then Edit.

    You will then be directed to the Assessment informations and Add questions steps, where you can modify the questions and republish them. This step follows the assessment creation process, which you can read about in section A.

  3. To unpublish the questions, click “Actions”, then Unpublish. This action will make the assessment unavailable to send to candidates.

  4. In the pop-up that appears, confirm your action by clicking “Unpublished”.

  5. Another action available on the Assessments page is deleting an assessment from the list. You can do this by clicking “Actions”, then Delete.

  6. In the pop-up that appears, confirm your action by clicking “Delete assessment”.

This concludes the guide to creating, organizing, and managing candidate assessments in the recruitment process. Next, you can learn how to manage schedules on Calendar here.