{"id":3635,"date":"2026-07-17T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/australia\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:00:48","slug":"psychometric-assessments-for-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatpeopleinside.com\/australia\/psychometric-assessments-for-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Handle the Truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, maybe you can, but many SME leaders are avoiding it when it comes to hiring.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a massive myth floating around among SMEs. It goes something like this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don’t hire enough to justify using psychometric assessments. That’s for the big end of town.”<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

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The actual truth?<\/p>\n

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Big companies can absorb a bad hire like it\u2019s a rounding error. Your small business? One bad hire destroys momentum, fractures culture, and flushes thousands down the drain.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the reality. A bad hire in Australia costs between 50% and 150% of that person’s annual salary. That\u2019s a figure drawn from industry research cited by AHRI and consistently supported across Australian HR data.<\/p>\n

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For a $75,000 role, that’s $37,500 to $112,500. For a manager or specialist role, the number is worse.<\/p>\n

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And here’s what makes it genuinely uncomfortable. That cost doesn’t show up as a single line in your P&L. It never does. It hides in the productivity your team lost while carrying someone who wasn’t performing. It hides in the morale damage you couldn’t quite measure but absolutely felt. It hides in the hours you and your managers spent having the wrong conversations instead of running the business. And it hides in the full cost of starting the whole recruitment process again from scratch.<\/p>\n

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The money was spent. You just couldn’t see it in black and white.<\/p>\n

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And 65% of Australian HR managers have made exactly that mistake, according to Robert Half research across 300 local hiring managers.<\/p>\n

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The idea that psychometric assessment only makes sense for large organisations with dedicated HR departments is simply outdated. Today, a validated online assessment, built on the same Big Five scientific framework used by industrial psychologists globally, independently certified to international standards, and normed against Australian data, takes your candidate 20 minutes to complete. The report comes back immediately to you in plain language. No jargon. No certification required to understand it. A clear, benchmarked read on whether this person fits this role,\u00a0and customised interview questions to help you explore any concerns.<\/p>\n

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76% of organisations with more than 100 staff already use pre-employment assessment as standard practice. The gap isn’t knowledge. It’s access and familiarity.<\/p>\n

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So here’s what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

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One free psychometric assessment. Your candidate. Your role. Your call.<\/p>\n

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Not a demo. Not a free trial with a catch or a credit card. A proper, scientifically validated assessment that tells you whether your next hire is the right hire, delivered free, no strings attached.<\/p>\n

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Run it. Read the report. Compare it to your gut feel. See what you’ve been missing.<\/p>\n

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If it doesn’t change how you think about hiring, you owe me nothing, and we part as friends.<\/p>\n

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Send me a direct message, and I will set it up personally.<\/p>\n

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Because the question was never whether you hire enough to justify it.<\/p>\n

The question is whether you can afford not to.<\/p>\n

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(Source: AHRI \u2014 The cost of hiring a new employee: ahri.com.au\/articles\/cost-of-hiring-new-employee | Robert Half Australia hiring research 2024)<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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