Agencies can use GSA’s recently launched hiring data dashboard to focus on how different methods of assessing candidates result in different rates of filling vacancies, the MSPB has said.
An article in an MSPB publication notes that 90 percent of announcements open to the public that used only a self-assessment questionnaire to certify that applicants’ experience made them qualified to be placed on the certificate of eligibles, but only 53 percent of those resulted in a selection. Only about 1 percent combined a such a questionnaire with USA Hire, a competency-based assessment available through OPM, but those resulted in a 57 percent hire rate, it said.
And while only a handful of announcements involved subject matter experts in assessing candidates, each of those resulted in a selection, it said.
“Given that relatively few announcements used assessments beyond the self-assessment questionnaire for purposes of certifying eligibility, it’s too early to declare that the additional assessments tracked in this dashboard will or will not result in more selections. Rather, the strength of the dashboard is its emphasis on evaluating the types of assessments agencies use and identifying the results of those assessments,” it said.
“That is something for agencies to emulate, and they could take it a step further by adding data on the quality of their hires and how it relates to the assessment(s). As our research notes, in a world where resources are scarce, agencies often choose self-assessment questionnaires because they are inexpensive and convenient. If agencies gather data on assessment outcomes, they may find that more expensive, valid assessments provide a worthwhile return on investment,” it said.
The dashboard is at https://d2d.gsa.gov/report/hiring-assessment-and-selection-outcome-dashboard.
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