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The Importance of Psychometric Testing in Recruitment

The Importance of Psychometric Testing in Recruitment

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin
April 28, 2023

Psychometric tests are an important tool in the hiring process, providing an objective evaluation of a candidate's skills, personality, and behavior patterns. With a high level of predictive validity, these assessments can help identify critical skills and traits necessary for the position, ensuring that the right candidate is hired for the job. Utilizing psychometric tests in the recruitment process is also cost-efficient, saving employers time and resources. While there are various websites available for practicing psychometric tests, it's important to remember that each test is unique and may require specific skills and strategies. Seeking professional advice and guidance can help ensure a successful outcome.

Logical and abstract reasoning tests

Logical and abstract reasoning tests

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin
December 18, 2019

Although the most popular way to assess whether a candidate is right for a job position is the one-to-one interview, psychometric tests are used by many employers as a filtering mechanism at an early stage of the recruitment process, especially for technical jobs. They are the most common tools used by recruiters to assess intelligence, skills and personality.

As with any kind of test, you can improve your performance if, beforehand, you know what to expect and you have enough practice. Psychometric Training is, unarguably, one of those tools that will help you to improve you reasoning skills, and overcome most of the logical and abstract reasoning tests applied by recruiters. It not only provides hundreds of free problems to practice, but also useful explanation to help you to understand the logic behind every problem.

How to use Linear Algebra Decoded to solve problems of polynomials?

How to use Linear Algebra Decoded to solve problems of polynomials?

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin
December 24, 2018

When we talk about vectors, the first idea is to relate this concept to Euclidean vectors, and it is very common that in Linear Algebra books and tests, most of problems related to Vector Spaces and Linear transformations deal with Euclidean spaces, but sometimes, there are exercises that involve working with other sets like matrices, polynomials and functions, because, as it is well known, these sets are also Vector Spaces.

Linear Algebra Decoded only deals with Euclidean vector spaces, but it is easy to work with other vector spaces such as polynomials. In this post we will discuss how to use Linear Algebra Decoded to solve problems that use the set of polynomials as vector spaces.

How to generate invertible matrices using Linear Algebra Decoded?

How to generate invertible matrices using Linear Algebra Decoded?

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin
December 9, 2018

One of the great potentialities of Linear Algebra Decoded is the possibility to generate problems where the coefficients are integers, and whose solution meets some given restrictions, so it allows students to generate problems covering different scenarios they can try, and in the same way it allows professors to generate problems that are convenient to use in exams. In this article we will explain how to use Linear Algebra Decoded to generate invertible matrices with integer coefficients where the inverse matrix has also integer coefficients.

10 tips to learn math

10 tips to learn math

Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin
March 21, 2014

Mathematics is just like anything else. If you want to get good at math, you have work hard and practice continually. Nevertheless, here we give you some practical tips to best learn math.

1. Find a quiet place to study and remove distractions.

Try to find a quiet spot in your home or in the Library to study or to get your schoolwork done. You will notice that you get your work done much more quickly because you'll be able to focus and absorb more. If you like listening to music while studying, we think that it is much more effective if you don't. There are other distractions you must avoid, like being on the internet, talking to your friends or watching TV. In order to learn, you need to ignore everything else while you are studying. Learning takes not only effort and time, but also intense concentration.