Assessment Benefits Both Employers And Employees

According to a TimesJobs.com poll, 84 per cent IT professionals would like to be assessed and know about their core-competency ranking.

These days it is important for employees to understand how they are ranked against their peers in their core-competency. They also want to be assessed, from time to time, in order to know where they stand, in terms of their skills and domain knowledge, especially IT professionals. According to a poll conducted by TimesJobs.com, 84 per cent experienced IT professionals would like to know about their core-competency (skills/domain knowledge/etc.) ranking, as compared to your peers. They believe, this information, would help them evaluate their current standing and plan their training requirements.

Apart from candidates, even organisations would like to know about the strength and weaknesses of all their employees. This helps the overall performance of the organisation and therefore, most organisations today have in-house assessment centres or have outsourced their assessment process. “To achieve organizational performance goals, it is imperative for organisations to have competent people and thus assessment centres have become an integral part of the business process,” stated, Hema Parikh, director, Human Resources, Ajuba Solutions.

In an exclusive conversation with TimesJobs.com, Vijay L Sonawane, senior vice president – HR, Glodyne Technoserve Ltd stated that the techniques used in assessment centres enable assessors to observe and assess candidate’s behaviour in a number of different situations. This provides a more comprehensive and all rounded picture of the candidates.

Vaishali Vaid, VP, head – Global HR and Learning, KPIT Cummins, during one of the TimesJobs.com High-Tea Chat Session, stated that, to succeed in the IT sector, overall knowledge of technical space is essential, but apart from that, candidates must possess skills like business etiquette, good communication skills both spoken and written such as email writing and team spirit.

She feels that every employee has an innate desire to learn and grow in their career. Thus organisations should invest a lot in enabling training for their employees; also, designing special development programs. This ensures continuous value addition to an employee’s profile, showing them the right growth path and helps retain them.

“Core benefit of any training is to add to a candidate’s skill base and learning. This needs to be continuous. Candidates must internalise the learnings from training and implement it in their daily work. Only then will it really benefit them and help them grow,” she opined.

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