Assessments

Assessments are usually designed to verify or ensure that a resource or candidate has the appropriate skills and competencies for a position.

Rather than assessing the resources or candidates themselves, organizations may contract vendors to do the assessment. You can define multiple vendors. Each vendor can provide multiple assessment packages, and each package can consist of multiple assessments.

For example, a vendor can provide an assessment package to test for Microsoft® Office skills. The assessment package can consist of two assessments: one for Microsoft Word and one for Microsoft Excel.

If you use assessment screening, at a minimum, you must define an assessment package. A vendor is not required.

You must set up assessment data in this order:

  1. If you use a vendor for an assessment, define the assessment vendor.
  2. Create an assessment package, regardless if it is associated with the assessment vendor.
  3. Optionally, if an assessment package includes multiple assessments, create the assessments for the assessment package.
    Note: If the assessment package includes only one assessment, it is not required to create an assessment. You can just assign the assessment package to a candidate or resource.