Effectiveness of psychological testing in selection process

Psychometric testing today is employed in a wide variety of setting, from educational to industrial organizations, for a diverse range of purposes. Especially from the HR point of view, its uses have increased manifold over the last few years. The purpose of the study is to find out how psychology testing can help in talent acquisition in the effective manner. This was an exploratory research in which the data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. Total sampling size was 100. Snowball sampling method was used. The finding of the study is that the skilled professionals should be hired exclusively to make psychological assessment of the tests and use the benefits of these tests to choose the right candidate for the right job and increase employee engagement. The psychological tests should be able to llook at job outcomes as well as job descriptions, perform a job analysis for each position, incorporate a good fit competency model, develop performance-based interviewing questions.