Assess skills practically with Mettl's platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: Mettl, an online assessment platform, brings a solution that deals with the problems faced by recruiters: finding the right person for the right job.

While rote learning may get you by during school and college, practical knowledge is what matters when it comes to your professional career. Mettl can measure the "hard" skills, which are directly applicable to a job rather than just the knowledge, which you have acquired by rote learning.

Services include creation and management of multi-competency assessments, hands on testing, simulation-based measurement of skills, automatic invigilation, actionable analytics and easy and efficient content upload.

Mettl provides quality assessment that is web-based. All a person needs to do is to log on, and Mettle provides practical testing of skills such as data crunching or accounting skills through its platform. Mettl provides skill testing across various industries such as retail, banking, IT, accounting and many more. Not only do they focus on corporate assessments, but on campus recruitment, and also provide certification tests.

One of the biggest benefits of using the Mettl platform is that it is very simple and does not require any change of location for any of the parties. Exams can be held without issuing answer scripts and question papers. The candidates taking the exam can just log on and take the exam, which is monitored through live image feeds.

Through the Mettl platform, the invigilator is able to keep track of 100 candidates, and can chat with each of them, stop the test in case of any problems, and send out broadcasts or announcements to all of them at once. If there is any change in the pace of a candidate or if there has been any inactivity from any of them, the invigilator gets notified using a signal processing algorithm.

Mettl was mentioned in an article by Thomas Friedman, in which he said Mettl was "the most interesting IT project" on his visit to India. It has also been recognized among the top 50 start-ups in the world with TiE50 2013 Award.

Today, Mettl works with over 100 clients who include leaders in IT, ITES, Telecom and the Banking industry such as Cognizant, Wipro, Capegimini, HCL, Accenture, Ericsson, Sears, Marico, Wiley, Monster, PwC, Makemytrip, Cleartrip and Inmobi.

In a case study provided my Mettl, we see that Mettl's online assessments turned out to be a game changer for the Capgemini India team. Capgemini is a French multinational IT services company and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies. Using a combination of standardized assessments, skill simulators and question banks, Capgemini has reduced the time to hire a candidate by 12.2 days.

With a better online screening infrastructure, 39 percent of incoming candidates pass first round of assessments and 49 percent pass the final round, meaning a higher number of candidates who qualify online assessments end up getting the final selection offer.