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Human Resources
Please read the introductory sections
below, then about the test batteries to find the one that best suits
your needs. Test manuals are available for both batteries.
About using Tests to Screen Job Applicants:
There are two batteries of tests you can use to screen job applicants. It
is
recommend that you use them approximately as follows:
- Put a good ad in your local paper or
other media. Describe the job carefully and in detail. Ask interested
parties to complete an application you can send them or send in a
cover letter, resume and copy of relevant school transcripts by a
certain deadline.
- Review received applications, letters, etc. and select those who seem
to meet your basic criteria.
- Contact those persons and schedule them to take the battery of tests
you have decided best suits your needs.
- Administer and score the tests. Select the candidates who meet your
test criteria. Tell "failing" candidates that they did not meet your
specific test score criteria and wish them well in seeking employment
elsewhere.
- Conduct remaining interviews, background checks, physical exams, etc.
in order, selecting only those applicants who pass each subsequent
screening step. Don't let anyone back in the pool if they've failed an
earlier step.
The reason I recommend putting the testing early in the process and
before you interview is to protect your interviewers from feeling
upstaged by the test, which will de-select some whom the interviewers
have okayed. Also, interviewing costs money, and the tests will screen
out many applicants, saving you money in interviewing and other steps.
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AVAILABLE TESTS
The McConochie Driver Battery (McDB) 
This is a library of tests designed specifically to screen applicants
for the job of heavy truck driver. The tests appear in a re-useable test
booklet and include measures of the following:
- Intelligence: Mental Skills, Map
Reading and Memory (30 items each)
- Driver Personality: Communication
skills, Personal life, Work ethic, Safety habits and Loyalty (30 items
each)
- Factual Knowledge: General knowledge of trucking, Hazardous materials,
and
Load-handling skills (for 10 types of loads: Dry vans, Flatbeds,
Reefers, Tank trucks, Dry tanks, Pickup and Delivery, Doubles and
Triples, Log trucks, Mixers (cement), and Moving vans.) (28-30 items
each)
Length of Test:
1-2 hours
Pricing Structure: Please
consult
http://www.truckdriverexam.com/pricing/ for pricing information.
 
McConochie Generic Battery (McGB)
This is a library of several tests from which you can select several to
assess intelligence, personality traits and other job-specific traits.
Typically, a company will select three intelligence measures, five
personality measures and one or two job-specific measures. The test
questions appear in two printed test booklets, which are re-useable, or
the test can be taken directly over the internet.
For the printed version, answers are entered on a separate answer sheet.
The tests available (with number of questions) are:
- Intelligence: Verbal (30), Spatial (30), Memory (25).
- Personality: Extroversion (30), Agreeableness (30), Conscientiousness
(30), Emotional Stability (30), and Openness.
- High school level factual knowledge: Math (28), English (28), Chemistry
(28), General Science (28).
- Business management aptitude (58), Business activity preferences (58).
- Nursing activity preferences (58).
- Occupational stress tolerance 58 (for physical, social, pollution,
danger and competition stresses).
- Job problem behaviors (35): Theft, turnover, substance abuse,
lateness/laziness and anger problems.
- Violence and criminal-proneness (58). This is the
McARFV test, described
elsewhere in this site.
Pricing Structure: A report of all the scores and a brief description of the traits
measured will be sent to your e-mail address. Your account will be
billed automatically. $5.00 per 30-item test. A typically battery runs
$50.00 or a bit more, depending on the number of tests uses. Re-useable
test booklets are $7.00 ea. (plus postage and handling).
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