The world of employee assessment is ever-expanding—new capabilities always being added, giving employers a more rounded and comprehensive picture of their current work force and job applicants.
According to US-based performance assessment organisation SkillSurvey, the next frontier is the promotion of surveys delivered in multiple languages, getting responses from participants in their first language. In this way, they assert, a more accurate reaction to prompts can be observed. With the major global business centres playing host to a multitude of individuals from diverse backgrounds—working in their first, second and third languages—it seems logical that when assessing surveys should be designed in more and more languages to encourage participation, accuracy and understanding.
Hong Kong’s business may take place primarily in Cantonese, Putonghua and English, but with its workforce hailing from all over Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond, the promotion of multilingual testing measures would be well suited as much to local corporations employing expats as to global organisations with operations in Hong Kong
Paul Arkwright
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