Why Should I Take a Test?

Our website for the job seeker is defiantly a new take on an old, or in terms of our technical age, old idea, job boards.  Here at PMAM Smart Select we have taken the idea of job search to a different level and that is to show your abilities rather than talk about them.  Our idea is relatively simple.   Anyone can write an impressive resume but not everyone can prove those skills before they walk in the door for the interview.

If you really think about it very few positions require you to show past projects with the exception of the advertising and scientific communities.  With an ever increasingly competitive job market wouldn’t you want an easy way to distinguish yourself from the other person?  Think about it, you apply for an open position as do a hundred other people.  Your resume is then parsed by key words, relevant work experience, years of experience, etc.  And you end up where on the list?  How well did your resume stack up to the other hundred people applying for that job?  Are you going to get “the call”?

So, after applying for this position what do you do?  You apply for another then another and you spend half the day looking at job postings and clicking apply now with a cover letter that is tweaked for each individual company.  It’s called the shotgun approach and until now it was the norm. 

Testing yourself when uploading a resume to our site allows you to show HR professionals and hiring managers what you know before they even look at your resume.  What this does is allows you to get an honest assessment of your skills without having worry about getting a look based on your resume writing skills.  Does this mean you can write a bad resume?   No, but it does mean you can separate yourself from the pack before they look at your resume and increase your chances of getting “the call”.