What's a Good Typing Speed? Average WPM by Profession
Discover average typing speed, "good" WPM, by job, and practical ways to improve. Includes free tests, accuracy guidance, and prep resources for candidates.
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Motivation Assessment for Employees
What is a motivation assessment? How is motivation assessment used in the hiring process? Benefits of assessing employee motivation What role do motivation...
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Personality Assessments in the Workplace
What is a personality assessment for a job or an employment personality test? How are personality assessments for jobs used in the hiring process? What are...
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Cognitive Ability Tests for Hiring
What are cognitive ability tests, and why are they important? What do cognitive ability tests measure? 9 standard measurements of cognitive ability tests Why...
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What Is an Employee Skills Assessment? And How to Pick the Best Candidate
What Is an Employee Skills Assessment? Why Organizations Measure and Assess Employees' Skills Types of Skills Assessments Limitations of Traditional Skills...
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What Is a Pre-Hire Assessment and How Does Wonderlic Help?
What Is a Pre-Hire Assessment? Types of Pre-Hire Assessments The Benefits of Pre-Hire Assessments The Outcomes of Using Pre-Hire Assessments Best Practices...
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Uncover Sales Superstars with Assessments
What makes a great sales professional? The two most common types of sales assessments The best interview questions for common sales roles Other interviewing...
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Unlocking Success in Manufacturing: Your Comprehensive Guide to Selecting the Perfect Assessment
Manufacturing assessments for hard skills Manufacturing aptitude tests for soft or power skills Top competencies for common manufacturing roles Why...
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4 Common Assessment Types and When to Use Them
Finding the right person to fill a position at your company and keeping them over time are age-old challenges for HR leaders.
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Assessing Soft Skills in the Workplace
What are soft skills? Why are soft skills important to evaluate? What is a soft skills assessment? What are the best ways to conduct a soft skills assessment?
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How to Use Assessments in a Candidate's Market
1. Not using pre-employment assessments increases the risk of new hires quitting or being fired 2. Not using pre-employment assessments can negatively affect...
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Pre-Employment Testing: Everything You Need to Know
What are pre-employment tests? The many benefits of pre-employment testing How to decide which pre-employment test to buy How to include pre-employment...
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The Secret Weapon for RV Companies to Reduce Turnover
How Wonderlic Provides Colton RV with Hiring Insights That Interviews Don't How Colton RV Reduced Turnover in Sales and Customer Service with Wonderlic How...
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Wonderlic's Revolutionary Job Matching Technology, Explained
So what is TrueMatch, and why should employers be excited about it? How does TrueMatch work, from a user standpoint? Who was involved in making TrueMatch?...
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How to Upgrade Your Assessment Experience
#1. Your tests are short and fun-but susceptible to bias and weak on science #2. Your assessment prioritizes personality over cognitive ability #3. Your...
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How Wonderlic Helps Auto Dealers Hire and Reduce Turnover
When has Wonderlic helped you make a smarter (and fairer) hiring decision? How does Wonderlic help you build better teams and dramatically reduce turnover?...
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How LennoxNAS Hires Better with Wonderlic
As an executive assistant at the commercial HVAC company LennoxNAS, Taheisha Lugo administers around 50 WonScore tests a week. See what she loves about the...
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What is a Cognitive Ability Test
What is cognitive ability? How is cognitive ability measured in a pre-employment assessment? How do cognitive ability assessments compare with other common...
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What Hiring Tests Are Most Predictive of Job Success?
Over the past twenty years, I-O psychologist Frank L. Schmidt and others have conducted research that tries to answer the question, "Which hiring tools are...
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The Difference Between Validity and Reliability , and Why Both Are So Important in Assessment Tests
It's a common mistake to assume that reliability and validity, as they relate to pre-employment tests, are essentially the same thing. They aren’t. And if...
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How and Why We Measure for Motivation
We know that cognitive ability is the single best general predictor of job performance. Finding the right fit for your job is more than a matter of knowing...
Read more →Organizations that Value Diversity Need Linguistic Competence
The National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) at Georgetown University describes Linguistic Competence as, "The capacity of an organization and its...
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Critical Thinking: What is it?
This poll was used as part of our latest soft skills webinar which was focused on "Critical Thinking." The correct response is C, "Objectively analyzing...
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Team Challenge: Idea Amplification- be heard.
According to the Washington Post, "Once a woman in the room made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. This forced the men...
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The Quest to De-Stress at Work
Ah…so how do you feel about that statement? When someone tells you that it's all in your head, chances your emotional response toward that person is...
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Good interpersonal skills: are you rewarding them?
For instance, let's take the example of meetings at work. The people who arrive on time are demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills. But if you always...
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The Ins and Outs of Online Testing
Discover the power of online testing with Wonderlic! Learn how our digital assessment platforms streamline hiring, enhance employee development, and drive...
Read more →Beyond the Basics: Addressing Advanced Skills Deficits
Furthermore, 4 out of 10 high school graduates are required to take remedial courses when they start college. This places a tremendous burden on schools that...
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Pre-Employment Assessment Data: Tactical vs. Strategic use
Among those who use pre-employment assessments, over 95% said so. In fact, even 85% of those who work at companies that don't use testing said "making better...
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Why Pre-Employment Test Scores are Job Specific
A cut score is the lowest score a candidate can achieve on an assessment to receive further consideration in the hiring process. Frequently, people assume...
Read more →What is Item Response Theory (IRT)?
IRT represents a general framework for understanding the relationship between an individual's standing on an underlying factor (e.g., a particular skill...
Read more →Why You Need More Than Just a Resume
There’s nothing like a first impression, and in the case of job applicants, that is often a resume. But let’s be honest for a second about resumes and their...
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What is a Cognitive Ability Test?
Have you ever wondered what a cognitive ability test is? This blog with Jen Garrow explains cognitive ability and why it can have such a positive impact for...
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