Is there hr tool for pre interviews that doing IQ test and creativity and responsive and pro active personality not limited to that and to be sent as a link for candidates? As companies and start ups facing a lot of issue to find the right ppl

Are you planning to assess with an online, unsupervised test with no supervised follow-up testing for those who pass the online version? Have you thought this through? If so, OK. Go for it. I’m not a fan, personally, but there is no law that says you can’t do it (in my jurisdiction, at least), at least. Others will have different views.

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Hmmm… I’m not 100% sure I understood the question but I am going with the assumption that you want:

  • one tool that
    • assesses general mental ability
    • assesses creativity
    • assesses proactive personality and reactive personality (which I am going to assume is the absence of proactive personality)
    • is available online tool and can be sent as a link to candidates.

Wow. You have packed a lot into this request. If you find this beast please let me know. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that one commercially available tool that assesses exactly those 3 or 4 things is not currently available. Full disclosure: I have not done an exhaustive search. If you aware of something that you haven’t mentioned in your question, I won’t be talking to you anymore. list. In any case I’m not aware of one Swiss-Army Test that will do all of that for you. But before I get into what you want to assess, a couple of other (important) things

Testing modalities, privacy and security

Are you planning to assess with an online, unsupervised test with no supervised follow-up testing for those who pass the online version? Have you thought this through? If so, OK. Go for it. I’m not a fan, personally, but there is no law that says you can’t do it (in my jurisdiction, at least), at least. Others will have different views. Mine are a little coloured by years of chasing down and pursuing recourse against test-taking cheaters.

Maybe you were thinking about remotely supervised testing? How? By you? By one of the many companies that can now offer that service to those who can afford it? Will you be providing any alternatives to candidates who are reluctant to grant access and/or control of their computer (and home, via camera) to a complete stranger? Depending on the privacy laws in your area that may be a good option, but it isn’t super cheap (relative to regular online testing). There is a lot of thinking that needs to go into privacy and IT security around remote and online testing. That said, the vendor should hopefully have already done a significant portion of it for you.

What you want to assess

As for the characteristics you want to test, the closest thing I can think of is the WonScore, an online, cloud-based tool from Wonderlic, who pioneered the original 12-minute cognitive ability test (that correlated around .90 with the full Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale). Wonderlic is a well-respected company whose work is based on solid research and sound psychometric test development practices.

It doesn’t assess what you asked for. But it does assess Cognitive Ability (what you call “IQ”), Motivation (which will go a long way toward “proactive personality”, see below) and Personality (which may also help both proactive personality and creativity).

For a full assessment of creativity, you might want to consider a dedicated creativity tool. I can’t help you there, I have no experience with them.

Or….

A hair-brained idea

… you could ask for a “portfolio”. It could be as simple as asking candidates for several activities where they have demonstrated creativity in their work, academic or personal lives. Of course, that thing won’t score itself. I developed something like this for a (very) large scale recruitment program but focussed on leadership activities. We broke down leadership into activities (specific things you have done including (if memory serves) working with a team, coordinating, showing initiative and planning) and roles. There were 4 levels of roles: 1) individual contributor, 2) core contributor such as being on a board or council or committee of some kind, 3) managing and 4) visionary - taking their own idea from conception to realization. We allowed points cumulatively to the levels with increments that reflected the importance of those roles for our needs. You could come up with something similar for creativity or just simply subjectively rate the submissions (with some fixed criteria to work with). Whether that is practical or not will depend on the size of the recruitment campaign.

You could combine the above tool with “proactive personality”. One of the “activities” we were looking for in the tool mentioned above was initiative. I’m not too sure how well developed proactive personality is from a psychometric perspective (there is a pretty high standard when you want to start treating something like a trait) but why focus on a (hypothetical) trait when you can look at what the person has actually done? Maybe I’m over-simplifying it, but based on the descriptions of proactive personality that I have read, initiative is essentially what happens when that trait is expressed. You’ve heard the I-O axiom that the best predictor of future performance is past performance?