PSU

A Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) that wished to reduce turnaround time during the recruitment process. The organization partnered with Attest to take the entire set of their pre-recruitment activities online.

Managing recruitment assessment for public sector & government undertakings is an extremely challenging job since security procedures need to be followed stringently at every step. A large pool of applicants from various backgrounds & with different eligibility norms for each category enhances the complexity of the process.

The broad scope of work included:

• Designing assessments in the areas of Aptitude, General Awareness & 6 engineering domains including Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics & Telecommunication.
• Creating a large question bank. The size of the question bank was of critical importance as the assessments were to be delivered in multiple sessions. 
• Creating an application portal
• Processing applications & screening out non-eligible candidates
• Designing assessments for 8 subjects
• Delivery of test in online mode across India through multiple sessions
• Result processing & recommending cut-offs

First, Attest focused on the creation of a comprehensive, fair question bank:

• A panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME) was put together & a Principal Test Coordinator was appointed.
• The team arrived at a test blueprint conforming to assessment objectives. Once this blueprint was approved by the customer, items were carefully crafted & administered to a sample base of candidates and validated accordingly.
• The final question bank was created in such as way as to ensure that all candidates get an equal opportunity in terms of level of difficulty of questions.
• The entire process was conducted in a highly secure environment & none of the SME had any peer-level communication.
• The final validation exercise was conducted by the Principal Test Coordinator along with representatives of the customer.

Once this process was completed?

• The application portal was designed with the customer’s logo, look-and-feel.
• The job applicants reached the application portal by visiting the customer’s own website. Keeping multiple filtering criteria in mind, the application portal was equipped to handle a large pool of applicants.
• The test was conducted across various locations including Attest Test Centres and the customer’s own locations. The Attest technical team pre-audited non-Attest venues to ensure that they conformed to security processes. There were multiple sessions & each candidate logging into each session received a unique assessment. After all the sessions were over, candidate scores were analyzed & a percentile method was recommended for the final short-listing of candidates.
• A shortlist of eligible candidates was generated and shared with the client as well as being put up on the website.

Attest conducted the entire process online, thus reducing turnaround time from 45 days to 7 days, post-test.

At every step, Attest maintained utmost security conforming to the high-stake government examination standards. The results even encouraged some other public sector organizations to re-look at their pre-recruitment process & opt for the online mode the following year.

Thus, Attest was able to make a positive difference not only to the customer?s organization but also to contribute to a significant section of the industry.