Hire better candidates with custom pre-hire tests from eSkill. Join Ashley from eSkill as she walks you through the process of creating custom pre-hire assessments using the eSkill platform.

📝 Just a couple of months ago, the US Office of Personnel Management announced the 2025 Merit Hiring Plan in a memorandum. ✏️We track the origins of merit-based hiring in both the public and private sphere in our latest blog:

How can local governments recruit the right candidates and still maintain appropriate oversight into hires?. Pre-hire tests are an effective way to go about it. Read our blog to find out the top pre-hire tests to use for government applicants:

The talent acquisition team at Prince George's County Govt sat down with us to talk about how using eSkill has helped streamline their hiring process — especially with mass amounts of applications flooding in to county roles. Check out the case study:

Have you checked out our ROI calculator? 🤑. See how much money you can save with pre-hire assessments by streamlining recruitment and cutting the risk of bad hires. Check it out here: 🤑 ← quite literally the face you’ll make once you see the numbers

Structured interviews have 🍔 double 🍔 the predictive potential of unstructured ones. So why don’t hiring managers use them more often?. 🥤We’ve got all the juicy details in our latest blog:

See what you’re leaving on the table 💸. Find out how much you can save on recruitment with eSkill’s new ROI Calculator! 🧮. (There’s no calculator emoji, so we’re settling on the abacus.). Read the blog (and then run your numbers) here:

📞 Test of the Month: 911 Dispatcher Exam 🚑. With over one in five new dispatchers leaving within their first year, it’s critical to find candidates who can handle the job before the training even begins. ☎️ Read more about the test:

Our latest blog dives into why digital literacy in healthcare matters, what’s holding workers back, and how pre-hire tests can help close the gap (before it causes a HIPAA nightmare). Read it here:

🖥️ Government hiring is going digital! 📱. From New York’s CTAC centers to California’s ECOS platform to tools like @NEOGOV, the public sector has long been rethinking how it recruits talent. 📖 Read more:.

Quick, what’s your Myers-Briggs type? INTJ? ENFP? The ultra-rare INFJ? 🙈. Ok, now forget about it forever. Your personality can’t be reduced to four letters, we promise. 🐵 Learn why behavioral tests work as a supplement, not a substitute:

What’s a hard skill? 🪨 What’s a soft skill? 🍦. Does the difference matter? Which is more important? And why test for either?. Make you hiring bolder by using hard skills tests:

🩺Test of the Month: Medical Terminology 🩻. In healthcare, words matter — across jobs and departments. That’s why testing for a thorough understanding of medical terminology is important for not one, but ALL roles in healthcare.

🧑‍🏭The manufacturing industry is facing a massive hiring challenge. Nearly 4 million jobs will need to be filled by 2033. At eSkill, we help manufacturers hire workers faster (and better) with role-specific skills tests. 🛠️ Learn more:

An April 2025 executive order deprioritized enforcement of adverse impact claims at the federal level. What does “adverse impact” mean today? And should HR teams still care?. Read our full blog on adverse impact in 2025 to find out:

72% of all eSkill tests are customized by our clients. 🧐 What does that mean? It means they:. 📼Mix-and-match questions across subjects from our content library.✏️ Write their own questions.🎥 Use multiple-choice, simulations, and even video-response formats

🎆 Happy Independence Day from the eSkill team!. Whether you’re firing up the grill, setting off sparklers, or just enjoying a well-earned day off, we hope you get a chance to reflect and recharge.

🚨 New trucking English-language enforcement rules just went into effect YESTERDAY. 🚨. Read our latest blog to find out how to get your team ready. 🚚🚚🚚 Link here:

⭐️ We just launched a new test: the Commercial Driver assessment! 🚚. Learn what the test covers and how it works:

Can your candidate actually do the job at hand?. Implementing hard skills tests is a good way to find out. Check out our guide to learn how skills tests work, how to choose the right one, and how they help you hire better.

🐘 You are given an elephant. You can’t sell or give it away. What do you do? . Questions like this could break the ice in an interview, but they're a pretty unreliable indicator of how a candidate will perform. Know the actual best hiring predictors:.