Interviewing for a Care Home Assistant

Why you need us!

Care home/disability assistants are at the forefront of your business. You need professional, highly trained care staff supporting your residents to achieve first-class status. Interview Quizzes can help you find the best people for your Care Home, with very little demand on your time.

According to government figures in 2017 there were approximately 410,000 care home residents in the UK. Each one of those residents is seeking first-class care. The UK care home sector was estimated to be worth around £15.9 billion in 2017, highlighting the need for your care home assistants to be the best of the best!

How we can help

We understand that your business needs to be outstanding if it is to set itself high above other care homes. Friendly care staff with key required skills are essential to achieving that.

When you find yourself needing to recruit staff, we are here to help. You choose the competencies you need for the role, and our programming will create an online test that reveals each applicant’s strengths and weaknesses. We can help you with the recruitment process and quickly narrow down the application forms, to create a shortlist of job interview candidates.

Key Skills for Care Home Assistant

• Fluent English speaker with great listening skills
• Friendly, with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Reliable and trustworthy
• Flexible
• Good stamina, confident in moving and handling people
• Working knowledge of basic health care and hygiene standards
• Organised and good at record keeping
• Tactful and compassionate
• Enthusiastic with a strong desire to care and help people

First things first

You advertise your job online or in the local press and people respond.

Construct your unique interview quiz

Simply choose 4 quiz categories from our extensive list, which you feel are key to the carer role. We have shortlisted 4 suggested categories for you:

English Basic - To test good communication skills.

Basic Numeracy - To see how good candidates are with figures.

IQ - A good way to find out who can think fast under pressure and solve problems quickly.

Spelling & Vocabulary (Basic) - Ensuring candidates are able to write and communicate clearly.

Pre-Interview

As we see it, there is absolutely no point in wasting your time on interviewing candidates who don't possess the core abilities to do the job, so we aim to weed these out early on.

You send them the unique quiz that we have created for you and ask them to play it online. When they do, their results are recorded for you so that you can compare each potential employee with all the other applicants. Each interview quiz can be played on any type of device, making them accessible to all potential candidates.

When the results come in, some of the candidates will have performed very well. The applicants that show potential can be invited for an interview.

At the Interview

When it comes to job interviews, you will be armed with a single page list showing the results of the online tests. This cuts down the work for you and quickly highlights key skills.

It will be a valuable tool to help you formulate the right interview questions to ask. It works – let us be your interview helper! We can provide the tools to help you MAKE BETTER DECISIONS, FASTER.