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How to Create and Manage Assessments 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. You can create these assessments with multiple-choice, long-text, or numerical answer types. With this feature, recruiters can more easily send assessments and monitor the results through a single platform, namely 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.

    If you subscribe to the Psychometric Assessment feature, you can access the Custom assessments submenu.

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

  3. You will then be directed to the Create Assessment page. In the first step, you are asked to complete the Assessment information, which contains information for candidates about this assessment. 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 amount of time given to candidates to complete this assessment in minutes.
4. Question navigation 

This section is used to set 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 question number 5 page.
  • Enable jumping to any question: Move the toggle to allow candidates to move directly to any question through the question navigation. You can enable this option by enabling Allow back to previous question. 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 directly in the question navigation list.
5. Measured capabilities Enter the specific capabilities assessed in this test, with a maximum of 10 capabilities.
6. Assessment instruction Enter special instructions for candidates to help them 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 type options 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 that you can complete with the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question title: Enter the title of this question (max. 1,000 characters). This field is required.
    2. Mandatory to answer: Check this box to require candidates to answer this question.
    3. Question description: Enter a description of the question.
    4. 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.
    5. Answer configuration: Check No correct answer if none of the Options are correct. If you select this option, the section for selecting the correct option (the “circle” icon) will not appear.
    6. Options: Complete the multiple-choice answer options, then click the “circle” icon to select the correct answer.
    7. Delete: Click this icon to delete an answer option.
    8. Add option: Click to add an answer option.
    9. Create another question: Check this box to immediately create another multiple-choice question after saving this question.
    10. 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 that you can complete with the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question title: Enter the title of this question (max. 1,000 characters). This field is required.
    2. Mandatory to answer: Check this box to require candidates to answer this question.
    3. Question description: Enter a description of the question.
    4. Create another question: Check this box to immediately create another essay question after saving this question.
    5. 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 that you can complete with the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question title: Enter the title of this question (max. 1,000 characters). This field is required.
    2. Mandatory to answer: Check this box to require candidates to answer this question.
    3. Question description: Enter a description of the question.
    4. Answer configuration: Check No correct answer if there is no correct answer. If you select this option, the Right answer field will not be available.
    5. Right answer: Enter the answer key for your question in this field.
    6. Create another question: Check this box to immediately create another number question after saving this question.
    7. Save: Click to save the question.
    4 Date

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


    1. Question title: Enter the title of this question (max. 1,000 characters). This field is required.
    2. Mandatory to answer: Check this box to require candidates to answer this question.
    3. Question description: Enter a description of the question.
    4. Create another question: Check this box to immediately create another calendar question after saving this question.
    5. Save: Click to save the question.
    5 File upload

    If you select this answer type, candidates can upload 1 file with a maximum size of 10 MB. Accepted file formats are PDF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, or ZIP. If you select this option, a sidebar will appear that you can complete with the following examples and explanations.

    1. Question title: Enter the title of this question (max. 1,000 characters). This field is required.
    2. Mandatory to answer: Check this box to require candidates to answer this question.
    3. Question description: Enter a description of the question.
    4. Create another question: Check this box to immediately create another File upload question after saving this question.
    5. Save: Click to save the question.

  3. The following is an example of a completed question layout. You can view the questions and their question types in each question table. In the table, you can rearrange the sequence of questions by dragging and dropping the “six-dot” icon. Click the “pencil” icon to edit the question and its answer. 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, a single 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 so they can 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 complete them later.

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

B. Managing Created Assessments for Candidates

  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 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 a specific question, click “Actions”, then Edit.

    You will then be directed to the Assessment information and Add questions steps, where you can modify the question and republish it. This step follows the assessment creation process described in section A.

  3. To unpublish the questions, click “Actions”, then Unpublish. This action will prevent the assessment from being sent 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, arranging, and managing assessments for candidates during the recruitment process. Next, you can learn how to manage schedules on the Calendar here.