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How to Create and Manage Assessment Tests for Candidates

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Learning Center Mekari
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Through Mekari Talenta Recruitment, besides the MBTI personality test, you can now create and manage other candidate assessment tests yourself. These tests can be created with multiple-choice answers, long text answers, or numeric answers. With this feature, recruiters can more easily send tests and monitor the results through a single platform, Mekari Talenta Recruitment. 

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

A. Creating an Assessment Test for Candidates

  1. Go to the Assessments menu.

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

  3. You will be directed to the Create Assessment page. In the first step, you are asked to complete the Assessment informations, which is information for candidates about this test. Here is the explanation.

No. Button/Column Name Description
1. Assessment name Fill in with the name of the assessment test.
2. Description Fill in with the description of this assessment test.
3. Duration to complete assessment Fill in with the duration given to candidates to complete this assessment in minutes.
4. Measured capabilities Fill in with the specific capabilities assessed in this test with a maximum of 10 (ten) capabilities.
5. Assessment instruction Fill in with special instructions for candidates to understand the test procedure.

  1. Once complete, click “Continue”.

  2. Next, in the second step, Add question, you can add questions by clicking “Create Question”. Then, several question type options will appear for you to choose from.

No. Button/Column Name Description
1. Multiple choice

Choose this question type to create multiple-choice questions. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear that you can fill with examples and explanations as follows.

1. Question name: Enter the question for this item.

2. Answer type: Choose one answer type based on the number of correct answers. Single correct answer means only one answer is correct, while Multiple correct answer means 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: Check this to immediately create another multiple-choice question after saving this question.

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

Choose this question type to create long-answer questions. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear that you can fill with examples and explanations as follows.

1. Add option: Enter the question for this item.

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

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

Choose this question type to create questions that can only be answered with numbers. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear that you can fill with examples and explanations as follows.

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

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

4. Save: Click to save the question.

Below is an example of the appearance of a completed question. You can see the question along with its type in each question table. In the table, you can reorder the sequence of questions by dragging and dropping the columns (drag and drop). Click the “pencil” icon to edit the question and its answers. To delete, click “-”. Additionally, you can click “Shuffle question” to randomize the questions for each candidate sent.

Important
As in the example above, one assessment test can consist of various types of questions. You can also create your assessment test using only one type of question.

  1. If the questions are arranged appropriately, click “Publish” to save the questions ready to be given directly to candidates. Or, if you still want to modify the questions and do not want to publish yet, click “Save as draft” to finish it later.

  2. Then, the assessment test is successfully created and saved in the Assessments list.

B. Managing Created Assessment Tests for Candidates

  1. On the Assessments page, you can filter the list of assessment tests based on their status by clicking “All status”. Additionally, there is a filter for the last modified date of the questions on “Select date”. Then, to help you find questions more easily, you can also type the name in the “Select assessment name”, also commonly called the Search bar.

  2. To change details or modify a specific question, click “Actions” then Edit.

    You will then be directed to the Assessment information and Add questions stages, where you can modify the questions and republish them. This stage follows the flow of creating an assessment test, which you can read about in section A.

  3. To unpublish a question, click “Actions” then Unpublish. This action will make the assessment test unavailable to be sent to candidates.

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

  5. Another action on the Assessments page is deleting an assessment test 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”.

That concludes the guide on creating, composing, and managing assessment tests for candidates during the recruitment process. Next, you can learn how to manage schedule arrangements on the Calendar, here.