Employers looking for candidates beyond the entry level tend to be interested in a candidate’s experience and work history far more than in any result of a test. Actuaries may be one exception. Off the top of my head it is the only profession I can think of where promotion within the field is gated by tests, and not just admission to the field. However I am not an actuary, so I may not fully understand how this works.
FYI: I regularly recruit, interview, and hire candidates within my field. I would love to have a test I could give to candidates to tell me who to hire, but I know of no such test. At best the written and computer administered tests that exist serve as a bozo filter to eliminate the worst candidates. They do not eliminate all bozos, and do not distinguish the mildly competent from the ridiculously effective, not even at the entry level.
Employers looking for candidates beyond the entry level tend to be interested in a candidate’s experience and work history far more than in any result of a test. Actuaries may be one exception. Off the top of my head it is the only profession I can think of where promotion within the field is gated by tests, and not just admission to the field. However I am not an actuary, so I may not fully understand how this works.
FYI: I regularly recruit, interview, and hire candidates within my field. I would love to have a test I could give to candidates to tell me who to hire, but I know of no such test. At best the written and computer administered tests that exist serve as a bozo filter to eliminate the worst candidates. They do not eliminate all bozos, and do not distinguish the mildly competent from the ridiculously effective, not even at the entry level.