🤖 This week is all about technical assessments

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Redefining Recruitment: The Unseen Power of Technical Skills Assessment Platforms.

In the digital age, recruitment is not just about CVs and cover letters. It's about uncovering the real talent behind the resumes. And here's how innovative companies are doing it – through Technical Skills Assessment Platforms.

Gone are the days when hiring decisions were solely based on intuition. Today, leading firms are leveraging these platforms to make data-driven decisions. They're not just assessing 'what' candidates know but 'how' they solve problems and in real-time.

Imagine hiring a software developer. Instead of relying on their self-reported expertise, companies now have them code in real-time, tackle actual problems, and demonstrate their thinking process. It's like seeing them in action before they even join the team.

But it's not just about tech roles. From digital marketing to data analysis, these platforms offer tailored challenges across disciplines, making competency visible and measurable.

The result? A dramatic decrease in mis-hires, increased retention rates, and teams that are better equipped from day one.

It's also a win for candidates. They get to showcase their skills in a practical, engaging way, often learning through the process.

So, if your company hasn't explored Technical Skills Assessment Platforms yet, it's time to rethink your hiring strategy.

Curious to see how these platforms can transform your recruitment process? Take a look at 3 of the best assessment platform below.

🛠️Tools of the Week🛠️

CodeSignal

Technical Skills Assessment

What’s the purpose of assessment platforms? Yes, obviously to technically test someone’s skills in a particular area, such as software development. However, as these platform get more and more sophisticated, they’re having added benefits. They can assist in pre-screening, increase diversity and reduce risk. All whilst saving money and shortening the time to hire

🚀 What is it and how does it work? In their own words; CodeSignal, is not just assessing and building skills; you're shaping the future. Wherever you are on your skills journey—whether you're aiming to level up or building the next great team—CodeSignal’s skills assessments and AI-powered learning tools are designed to meet you there and get you where you need to go.

Built for engineering teams to assess potential team mate, their products include, pre-screening, tech screen and interview. The pre-screen feature is great, it saves time sifting through resumes (especially if its high volume hiring) and will reduce biases. Just send out the tests directly and get the scores back for you to review.

💡 Who is it for? There’s lots of case studies that would suggest this is a perfect tool for enterprise who are doing volume hiring, have security and integration needs, and we think that would be correct. However, we think their is still a user base for anyone who wants to get their technical hiring more efficient and reduce biases from the start of engineering team journey

💸 How much does it cost? No pricing plans are publicly available for CodeSignal, however, pricing varies based on your technical recruiting needs

🧰 Alternatives: TestGorilla / Hackajob

🌐 Website: https://codesignal.com/

CodeSubmit

Technical Skills Assessment

🚀 What is it and how does it work?  CodeSubmit sells themselves as being the first git-based solution for administering and evaluating coding assignments and technical interviews, allowing for unparalleled competency insights and a completely natural candidate experience. Their process is remote-friendly, asynchronous, and completely customizable, supporting over 50 of the most popular frontend, backend and mobile languages, frameworks, and technologies.

Aimed at developers, CodeSubmit has 3 main products in the shape of take home challenges, live coding interviews, and screening tasks. For the take-home challenges you can choose from within their library, hundreds of customisable, pre-built tests, or upload you’re own that you’ve created.

💡 Who is it for? Companies of all sizes hiring developers and building engineering team

💸 How much does it cost? CodeSubmit offers 3 pricing plans, available on either a monthly or yearly term. The figures below are Monthly, if you take the yearly plans you can access 20% discount

• Start-up -$199/month

• Scaleup - $299/month

• Business $499/month

🧰 Alternatives: Coderpad / HackerRank / Coderbyte

🌐 Website: http://codesubmit.io

CoderByte

Technical Skill Assessment

🚀 What is it and how does it work? CoderByte is another assessment platform that allows is users to technically asses candidates, quickly.

CoderByte, like it direct competition allows hiring teams to reduce biases in hiring by offering skill assessment test at the beginning stages. Their tech has been built to minimise plagiarism and cheating, practically making it impossible.

You get access to unlimited assessments, candidate use and admin logins for one price, which we will cover below:

Coderbyte can be used for in person or remote hiring and covers a plethora of technical areas, including, front and back end development, data science and engineering, and QA for all levels from, grad to senior.

With an extensive library of challenges and assessments to choose from, the option is also there to customise them. Other features include, real-time coding environment, whiteboard, video and take home assignments for candidate to complete in their own time.

💡 Who is it for? From start-ups, scale-ups to enterprise and everyone in between including staffing agencies. As long as your hiring technical staff, CoderByte is a useful tool to have in your rec tech stack

💸 How much does it cost? The pricing plans are offered on a monthly on yearly schedule, or you can also pay per candidates with invites of up to 30 or 50 candidates, expiring after on year

• 30 candidates = $350

• 50 candidates = $500

The monthly price for unlimited access + more is $199. If you pay annually it is $1,699 which equals to $141/month

🧰 Alternatives: CodeSubmit / CodeSignal / TestGorilla

🌐 Website: https://coderbyte.com/

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