An organisation's best asset is its workforce, therefore as an employer it makes sense to ensure that you have the best possible workforce available to you.

The most effective way to ensure this is by assessing the people who work for you. Workplace assessments offer a number of advantages to an organisation. Here is just a sample of some of those benefits:

improves organisational performancehelps to ensure equal opportunity for employment decisionsseparates candidates who are more likely to perform from those who are less likely to performdevelops existing employees – which in turn saves money in terms of recruitmentidentifies those applicants who have the skills and abilities to perform up to expectationsimproves fit between an individual's knowledge, skills and attributes and the job requirementscan predict future job performancemay avoid false positives (a false positive occurs when an organisation employs the wrong person for the job and a false negative occurs when an organisation fails to employ the right person for the job)

(Steptoe-Warren 2013)

Workplace assessments also offer benefits to the individual which include providing a candidate with the opportunity to show their strengths - they may not be good at interviews, but that does not necessarily mean they are not the right person for the job.

Your task

Which two benefits of workplace assessment do you think are the most important for an organisation?