Candidate Evaluation System Ensures Legal Compliance
Employee Continuum's award winning Candidate Evaluation System is designed to adhere to legal, professional, and ethical standards.
Assessment tools can be extremely valuable when used properly, but counterproductive, or detrimental when used improperly. The most common underlying reason for counterproductive assessments is a lack of clear understanding of what an organization wants to measure and why they want to measure it.
It is critical to have a clear understanding of what needs to be measured and for what purpose. The number of laws and regulations regulating the employment process has greatly increased over the past several decades. The general purpose of employment laws and regulations is to prohibit unfair discrimination in employment and provide equal opportunity for all.
Diversity
Employee Continuum's Evaluation System does not contain data fields or questions and answers that would relate to or uncover race, sex or an ethnic group. Administrative user of the dashboard will be able to make decisions based on non-discriminating results.
In order to create a more diverse group of candidates it is imperative to increase the diversity of the candidate pool. This can be accomplished by using current employees, some who are members of minority groups, to star in the job branding video. Along with posting ads on minority centered job boards, websites, and at colleges and universities attended by minorities in a streamlined manner.
Candidate Treatment
Employee Continuum designed the Candidate Evaluation System system to be unbiased and fair to all candidates, keeping in mind the candidate experience. Research has demonstrated that rejected candidates upset by their treatment during the hiring process are much more likely to file suits against an organization. Consequently, treating candidates equally and respectfully during the hiring process helps an organization’s reputation and can also help avoid litigation.
Job-Related
Employee Continuum designed the Candidate Evaluation System to evaluate candidate's skills and competencies that are job-related. The creation of the model profile, which entails validation by industry experts and Industrial/Occupational Psychologist, ensures the qualification methods are valid and related directly to the job position. The dashboard results from the pre-screen, job simulations and assessments are displayed without reference to race, sex, or ethnic group. Administrative users are much less likely to discriminate based upon the above factors.