Evertz Employment Testing

Executive Summary

The following investigative report seeks to determine what kind of employment testing Evertz Microsystems Ltd. uses and if this testing is valid and reliable enough to use when hiring for IT desktop and networking positions within the company.

The type of test Evertz uses is a job knowledge test called The General Networking Test, administered by hiring managers. The type of questions the employment test ranges from is defining common terminology, solving problems to labeling diagrams. Job knowledge tests assess job applicants’ or employees’ knowledge of issues or procedures that are considered essential to successful job performance.

This test measures whether the candidate has the knowledge the company is looking for to be a successful employee at Evertz. This test allows Evertz to make predictions about how a candidate will respond across a range of very different work-related activities. The test is administered as one of the final stages in the hiring process. Once a hiring manager feels that the candidate could be a potential employee, the test is given in order to determine if the candidate is actually familiar with the basics of the IT field. Without this crucial knowledge, the job cannot be done.

The following report touches on some aspects of reliability and validity. In particular, content, construct and criterion-related validity are examined. Questions of validity are asked to determine if the test does indeed measure what it is intended to measure. For the test to be reliable and free from random errors, many factors affect the outcome. These outcomes could be the state of the test taker under different environmental and psychological circumstances. In addition, high inter related reliability must be proven that that two raters can come to the same conclusion for answers and the process of