Gaurav, an HR professional of Naunidh Tyres had conducted an interview of 100 different professionals.
In the second round he had taken the selection tests of candidates. What was the reason behind conducting the selection test and two advantage and disadvantages of such tests ?

Explanation

Selection tests are conducted to mesures certain characteristics like intelligence, personality and skills of an employee.
It is a popular technique of measuring the skills of employees selection .
(i) Tests are useful in checking and verifying a candidates's suitability for the job.
(ii) Test are useful in checking and verifying the claims made by the candidate about his qualifications and experience.
Tests suffers from the following limitations :
(i ) Tests are not always the reliable indicators of knowledge and skills of a candidates.
(ii) Tests may be unfair to candidates belonging to economically and socially backward sections of society.
Sometimes tests may lead to discrimination between one candidate an another.