College to Career

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Preliminary Aptitude Tests

3.1 Introduction

Aptitude testing is one of the initial critical steps you go through in the campus recruitment process. If your résumé fits the bill for a recruiting organization, it is likely that aptitude testing is the next step you will go through. Simple, yet challenging, an aptitude test acts as a gate keeper to shortlist the number of candidates who will be considered for a more in-depth selection process. There are a large number of aptitude tests, and they test and grade you on a whole variety of skills, such as mathematical skills, verbal abilities, logical reasoning, domain knowledge and associated technical skills, computer proficiency, soft skills, personality traits and so on. Many employers design ...