The Future of Assessments: AI-Powered Tools to Measure Employee Potential
Talent assessments are designed to assess the skills of potential employees to see who is the best fit, skillswise, for an open role. But despite the popularity of these assessments, organizations are frequently still failing to leverage those skills and develop their employees’ full potential once they’re hired. A 2024 study from Gartner found that 50% of HR leaders agree their organization doesn’t effectively leverage employees’ skills.
Fortunately, AI hiring tools offer a solution to these gaps, both in their current forms and in the near future advances we can expect as well. When used strategically and thoughtfully, AI tools can help companies and employees alike reach their full potential. Here’s what you need to know.
How AI Hiring Tools Are Used in Talent Assessments
AI hiring tools are all over the market recently, and it’s no surprise why: their powerful data analysis capabilities and ability to constantly improve make them excellent allies for recruiters and HR teams.
Tools that incorporate AI are already making an impact on the use of talent assessments in particular. Since assessments provide a rich source of data on future (and current) employees, and AI tools can make wide-ranging use of that data, they offer an opportunity to understand employees and their potential and motivations more deeply.
Currently, AI tools are providing more in-depth looks at the results of talent assessments. They’re looking for how well candidates align to the skills needed in the role they’re applying for (both hard and soft skills). Since they can synthesize the data from hundreds of assessments in seconds, they’re helping lean recruiting teams make the most of their time as well. This scale and the resulting efficiencies help recruiting teams have more information to make hiring decisions at their fingertips. Plus, the top tools in the market use ethical AI to ensure hiring equity.
How AI Will Shape the Future of Hiring Assessments
AI hiring tools can go far beyond just analyzing assessment data for a limited list of skills. They can determine what makes current employees successful in their roles so that information can be used in future talent assessments. They can create customized onboarding plans for each new employee based on their assessment results for a personalized experience. And they can create completely customized development and upskilling plans for each employee to understand their existing skills, their motivations, and their future goals, and build a step-by-step plan to get them to those goals.
With some AI tools, the future is closer than you think. Cangrade’s AI co-pilot Jules, for example, can handle all of the tasks above. Using it doesn’t require a steep learning curve either: all the insights come from a simple conversation. You can ask it questions like you’d ask a human assistant, and the output is actionable data-backed answers instead of a dense research report.
AI Benefits Both Sides
These kinds of accessible, conversational tools will make the future of talent assessments more useful for hiring and HR teams, who will have the information at their fingertips to make better-informed business decisions like hiring and internal mobility.
But employees will also benefit significantly, as they’ll also gain access to insights about their skills and career path they might not have had on their own. They’ll be empowered to co-create their future, and it might uncover paths they hadn’t even dream of yet. It’s like having a life coach in their pocket.
Want to learn more about how to use AI in your company? Cangrade’s Guide to AI in Hiring is a roadmap to the future of AI in HR: give it a read to see how you can advance your organization’s use of AI and talent assessments today.