Advantage Hiring In a scarce labor market, the applicant holds the power. If testing turns off a candidate, they might just go to another employer that doesn't include testing in their staffing process.
Testing can be a sticky issue for test takers.
There is a natural resistance to having your experience, skills, and other qualities as a potential employee reduced to a test score. Testing brings with it the whole of our academic experiences. To the extent that we performed well on the various class tests and standard tests throughout our school years, we are more likely to have an accepting attitude toward them in an employment scenario. If we did not tend to do well in testing situations at school, we are probably going to very apprehensive about them as part of the staffing process. The fact that testing is likely to raise candidate concerns has resulted in certain protections and rights for test-takers.