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Improve your quality of hire with our job-related whole-person employment tests. Measure knowledge, skills, personality, intelligence.
Very up to date and is easy to navigate, especially in creating test batteries.
Trial period was kind of deceiving - explain you can give 2-4 tests - then you start paying instead of giving a 15/30 day trial.
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Convenience of HR Avatar
Comments: none
Pros:
What I like most about this software is that it is very easy to use. Another thing is that it can even detect plagiarism which is not easy to know or notice if done by manual examination.
Cons:
none. I find it very useful as it is. It is very convenient to use
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review. We are glad you found our software easy to use.
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Comments: Last year, I issued a few hundred candidate assessments; only one of them experienced an issue. Compared to other services, HR Avatar increased my efficient and significantly reduced inefficiency so that I could focus on my team while handling onboarding tasks. Anytime I have ever needed assistance, the Support Team at HR Avatar has always provided a prompt response to address the question, concern, or general feedback submitted.
Pros:
The software is generally easy to use. I take advantage of the Assessment Battery function to create a bundle of pre-employment tests into a single issuance.
Cons:
There really is nothing that I do not like about this software. Though, if I had a wish, it would be to enable the ability to limit completion via mobile and tablet devices.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you for your review, Todd! Do you mean that you would like to require completion on non-mobile devices or on small screen devices? That's something we have wrestled with recently. We would appreciate your thoughts.
Good Use of HR Avatar
Comments: Good and is very reliable. The graphics and how the results were being interpreted.
Pros:
Very up to date and is easy to navigate, especially in creating test batteries.
Cons:
Sometimes we encounter glitched in retrieving results.
HR Avatar Response
2 weeks ago
Thank you so much for your review! I'm sorry to hear about the glitches. Please feel free to reach out and we can see if there is a way to solve the problem!
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Good functionalities but lack design
Comments: Its a good tool but can use better design
Pros:
The report automation and the setting up of the questions
Cons:
The look and feel of the assessment and report
HR Avatar Response
2 months ago
Thank you so much for your review and sharing your feedback. We are hard at work updating our design and increasing our usability. Please check us out again when you are ready to hire!
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Great Hiring Resource!
Comments: Overall I really love th HR Avatar software. We currently just use it for the Pre-Hire Personality assessments, but are looking to use it for many other positions that we hire for. It has been a great resource for our hiring managers giving them the ability to identify good candidates faster!
Pros:
I love how easy it is to view the applicants test results. It has a summary page that breaks down each competency and even goes into details. Very easy to read and navigate through. I also the animations before each test is given to each of our applicants. Great way to engage them before the test is taken.
Cons:
I do not like how we cannot integrate the test into our current ATS. We currently use Saba Jobvite and I can automate the test link for applicants, but the data cannot be put into our ATS. We must get it from the HR Avatar site.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you for your review, Glenn! We will be happy to investigate integration with Jobvite. We will be in touch!
Robust Catalog of Assessments
Comments: Its a great tool to use when you need to do a skills test on a small or large group of individuals with a robust testing catalog.
Pros:
The large database of assessments available across all different skills.
Cons:
Creating your own assessment within the platform to use is quite difficult and leaves a lot to be desired.
HR Avatar Response
2 months ago
Thank you so much for your review and feedback! We are in the process of creating more tutorials to help users with the platform. Stay tuned! Also, please feel free to reach out with anything specific you would like to see improved, especially with the custom test builder. Our best ideas and improvements come from our customers!
HR AVATAR-
Comments: I think HR Avatar is a great tool for seeing the whole person! I think that it serves populations well.
Pros:
I think HR Avatar allows the recruiters an opportunity to truly see the candidate and their mannerisms.
Cons:
Sometimes I think it glitches and the process of resending an avatar test is antiquated.
HR Avatar Response
2 months ago
Thank you so much for your review and feedback! We appreciate you taking the time. We are in the process of making lots of updates to improve usability. If you have more thoughts about resending tests, please let us know. Our best ideas and improvements come from our customers.
Good product especially for common job titles
Comments: I've used the product for years with my hourly staff and find it a very useful tool.
Pros:
This product gives a nice overview of the candidates behavioral and technical competence.
Cons:
Sometimes matching jobs in the product to the jobs you are evaluating can be a challenge.
HR Avatar Response
2 months ago
Thank you so much for your review! We are glad to hear it's been an effective way to build your team. If you have any more thoughts on matching jobs to assessment products, please feel free to reach out. Our best ideas and improvements come from our customers.
Sr. Recruiter
Comments: Great experience! We have been using HR Avatar for about a year and we are happy with the assessment selections and the financial cost as well.
Pros:
There is a variety of assessments to select for each position type.
Cons:
It's tricky on the admin side when assessments and references are sent.
HR Avatar Response
2 weeks ago
Thank you so much for your review and feedback! We are always looking for ways to improve, and our best suggestions come from our clients. If you'd like to share how it can be tricky for admins, please let us know. We'd love to simplify things if possible!
Exceptional Customer Service
Comments: My experience has been great so far. HR Avatar a great tool to utilize.
Pros:
customer service always available on point
Cons:
Nothing that I can think of at this very moment.
HR Avatar Response
2 weeks ago
Thank you so much for your feedback and review! We strive to help our customers and candidates as much as possible!
Pre-employment Screening Help
Comments: An easy-to-use and shrewd tool for accepting employment applications is HR Avatar. It can speed up the hiring process without compromising the quality of the professional you require.
Pros:
The candidate's abilities, experience, expertise, character, and behavior are taken into account as part of HR Avatar's applicant screening process. Because it can provide you the highlights of their test result with an explanation, it is user-friendly and speeds up the hiring selection process.
Cons:
The only area I can think of for improvement is how long it takes to complete. Perhaps you can condense it while maintaining the same level of quality.
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Heidi. It's nice to read that your organization found our software easy to use with the benefit of speeding up your hiring process. We have short versions available for our job-specific assessments. We'd be happy to discuss your needs if these were still too long for you, or perhaps you could try our Custom Test Builder tool. Thanks for your feedback.
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Good for canned and ready to go candidate assessments!
Comments: Satisfied, although I wish I could make a few changes to make HR Avatar a long-term solution for our organization
Pros:
the variety of the test catalog, the pdf guide, can see tests in progress
Cons:
not an assessment for every position/skill we need
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Sierra. We are glad to read that you were satisfied with our assessments. We would love to know about the changes you need to help make HR Avatar even better for your organization. Please contact us to discuss this.
Great assessment tool for most jobs
Comments: Overall it has helped us select people who will perform well for the company.
Pros:
It is easy to send to applicants, has fairly straight-forward instructions & the results are broken down into various factors that make it easy to evaluate whether or not someone is a good fit for a particular position in a particular company.
Cons:
While I feel the assessments accurately predict who will perform well, I have seen some cases where the individual did not score well on the Avatar but ended up being one of our stars. I think this is due to the fact that there are not exact matches to some of our job titles, so the duties of any specific assessment are not perfectly aligned with some of our roles. I am afraid we may have ruled some people out who may have done just fine if we had hired them.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thanks, Dru! It is certainly true that there are false negatives and false positives in any selection process. Our goal, of course, is to reduce these as much as possible. We would be happy to work with you to perform an analysis of those you have hired, correlating their performance and test scores. Our new Talent Analytics reporting section on our website makes this a painless process, but it does require entry (either individually or in bulk) of candidate performance data. Just let us know, and we'll be happy to help you with this!
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Pros:
Verry easy to use and assisted with the selection process when recruiting. I love that I am able to schedule these test and set an expiration time as well.
Cons:
Some of the test are a bit too long, there is ko section to enter couple email addresses at once, I believe this has to be selected one at a time.
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Sherika. We can assist you with entering email addresses. Please contact us if you would like to discuss this.
NLIC Experience for Candidate Review
Comments: good for employer branding
Pros:
HR avatar produces reliable results that we can compare with industry all the time
Cons:
not many available Exams to test underwriting skills for non-life insurance
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Mitch. We are pleased that you found our tests and results to be reliable. Would you like to discuss further your testing needs for underwriting skills for non-life insurance? We are always looking at options to expand our test catalog. We also have a Custom Test Builder tool that you can use to create your own assessments, and we'd be happy to help you get started with this tool if you want to try it.
HR Avatar as Online Assessment
Comments: It is overall fun and easy to take. There are just a few to improve.
Pros:
It is accessible anywhere as long as there is internet connection. It is user friendly and fun to take because of the animations. Administrators can customized the test package depending on the job description. In HR, it is great that we can receive the result few minutes after the applicant has finished taking it. That means a lot because it saves a lot time waiting and we can proceed to hiring within a day.
Cons:
In our company, there are applicants who cannot understand the English language. It is better if it has language options to consider.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thanks for the honest review, Rizza. Keeping up with all languages is certainly a challenge. However, we currently offer most of our assessments in Spanish as well as English. Is there another language you are looking for?
HR Avatar
Comments: Its convenient way of administering assessments.
Pros:
It is easy to navigate and the results are convenient to check.
Cons:
Haven't really explored everything, but so far none.
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Mari Joylyn. We are glad that you found our software easy to use and convenient.
Great tool for small business company
Comments: Our professional business company used these services to help narrow the field down of potential candidates as part of selection and hiring process. They have very "job-specific" simulated testing that helps to gauge skills, knowledge and even personal traits. It's a great approach to an overall "snap shot" of applicants. It saved our staff time and money that it would have required to do this task on our own. It's one thing for a perspective applicant to tell you they can perform a certain task. It's another thing to have them take the simulated testing that produces concrete and tangible evidence of their ability to actually perform those job-related tasks. The feedback from the candidates we administered the testing to, was very positive. Most had not ever seen one like it. It's not strictly a personality test, like most products out there. It's all inclusive testing tool that includes personality tendencies, job record history, "suggested" red flag areas as well as personality traits. Most test takers loved it! When I signed up to use the Avatar product, I received emails and a personal phone call from the Avatar company. They helped me to narrow done what to use for what we were specifically looking for as well as what we, as a company wanted to target in our hiring process. They were very helpful and accommodating. The ease of use of the product in choosing the tests, administering them and receiving the results was user friendly on top of it. I would highly recommend the Avatar services. We are a small firm and to have this tool helped us achieve our desired goals.
HR Avatar Response
8 years ago
Thanks for the review! -Bill HR Avatar
Different Style of Testing
Comments: We have used in the past for Customer Service, HR, and other technical positions. The reports are broken up into different categories which make it easy to tell where a candidate excels or needs improvement. This style of testing makes it easy to gauge computer skills. I particularly like the attention to detail score it provides. I do wish that there was some explanation in terms of how the scoring is done. There are a lot of positions I wish I could test using HR Avatar that aren't an option.
Pros:
Attention to detail. Testing computer skills. Interactive style.
Cons:
Would be nice to have more positions available.
HR Avatar Response
8 years ago
Robert, Thanks for your great review! Score explanation: This is now a feature of our reports. With our summer 2016 update, we added a detailed explanation of the scoring to the end of the score report. It appears on any test reports run after that release. Additional tests: We have over 200 tests for specific job positions. The test titles are based on the US Dept of Labor job titles, so the titles might deviate from other commonly used job titles. If you search the catalog by your job title, it usually will find the right test, but if not- let us know. We also have 450 skills-specific tests. If there is a test you'd like to see, please let us know. We create new assessments based on market demand and we would like to hear from you. Thanks again. -Bill
HR Avatar Rocks
Comments: Great to have a tool like this to work in the remote world.
Pros:
I like the Reference check, spanish and account manager test.
Cons:
Nothing, it worked well for all my company needed.
HR Avatar Response
2 years ago
Thank you for your review, Janell. It's great to read that our products worked well for your company.
HR Avatar Review
Comments: HR Avatar is very helpful in screening applicants as it can determine where applicants are having a hard time dealing with and it also shows the potential risks upon hiring the candidate. It makes the job of HRs easy and efficient. Though I think the price can be adjusted. Other than that, I have no other problems. Kudos!
Pros:
This software has helped our recruitment process big time since everything is digital already and doesn't need any papers. It is also very friendly for applicants as well.
Cons:
To be honest, the price for each test can be very expensive for an exam.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you, Joshua! We appreciate your feedback about price. Actually, our analysis shows that our prices are slightly below the middle-of-the-range for reputable competitors. Unfortunately, there are many less reputable providers who do not take sufficient care with their assessments and who tend to compete strictly on price.
HR Avatar is a Great Hiring Tool
Comments: I really enjoy HR avatar overall! While it may not provide a potential hire with what their day-to-day looks like, it provides the hiring manager with a good gauge for how the potential hire will approach the work.
Pros:
The most useful feature for the role I most hire for, is the writing portion. We do a lot of internal and external communication and it is a wonderful tool to see how a potential hire can convey necessary information with good sentence structure and professionalism. The writing portion provides a great starting point for where a potential hire may need coaching or where they will succeed with minimal coaching.
Cons:
While I thoroughly;y appreciate the multiple competencies that are measured, it would be much more helpful if I could filter them by the ideal interpretation range. As competencies have different ideal ranges, it can make a quick glance through them potentially misleading.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Katie, thank you for your review and for your great suggestion!
Avatar tool
Pros:
Agile. Friendly. It has a big offer of tests.
Cons:
English oral tests are not functionally.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you for your review, Andrea! Sometimes firewalls can block media files. This is usually solved by testing from a different location, or companies can open their firewall if a lot of testing will take place. Please let us know if you would like further assistance.
HR Avatar - collections assessment
Comments: it's been great so far - pretty early in our process.
Pros:
it is easy to use. have found the results to be very helpful in determining next step questions.
Cons:
I would be happier if it didn't ask me to change my password each time I log in. We had an issue the other day when using a test key (link) where one person's name overlapped another person's results. The first time this has happened. Not sure why.
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you for your review, Lisa! Our system requires that you change your password every 12 months or if your current password is considered weak. We are looking into why the issues you mentioned might be happening. Please let us know if we can assist you.
Review
Pros:
The time it saved us. It´s much faster that a candidate takes the exam online and it´s corrected automatically rather than making him/her come to the office and the correcting the exams.
Cons:
It´s expensive and candidates do not always reply
HR Avatar Response
5 years ago
Thank you for your review, Mariano! We're constantly told that we are much less expensive than our comparable competitors. And yes, it's always hard to keep candidates interested. One thing about our tests though is that they make a great impression on candidates through the 'day-in-the-life' job simulation. Our approval ratings from candidates are over 99%!