Here’s a list of employability tests that help freshers land a job

The Indian job market is a paradox. While unemployment in the country has snowballed into a crisis, a large number of organisations are facing dearth of employable candidates. To fill the gap, multinational companies in India are taking the route of employability tests to filter candidates based on the scores.

Here are top national employability tests that can help you land a job, even without experience:

1. AMCAT

Exam Fee: ₹1,298
Score Validity: 1 year

Aspiring Minds' Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT) is conducted by assessment firm Aspiring Minds. The test is focussed to assess fresher skills for entry-level jobs — that require no prior experience. Over 1,000 companies accept AMCAT scores for freshers’ employment, including Snapdeal, ITC, Axis Bank and Accenture among others.

The test includes assessment of communication skills, logical reasoning, quantitative skills and job specific domain skills.

2. CoCubes

Exam Fee: ₹1,500
Score Validity: 1 Year

CoCubes by Aon is a corporate assessment test to hire candidates across locations, right from the campus. The assessment company has a collaboration with universities as well as companies across sectors — IT products and services, Knowledge Processing Outsourcing (KPO) companies.

The test includes three sections — aptitude domain specific test computer fundamentals, programming capabilities, personality traits. aptitude section also consists of quantitative, verbal ability and logical reasoning section and the technical section consists of complexity, C-language, computer networks and database management systems.

3. eLitmus

Exam Fee: ₹920
Score Validity: 2 years

eLitmus PH (Hiring Potential) test is one of the oldest employability tests for IT jobs in India. The 600 marks test includes assessment of problem solving and reasoning, quantitative aptitude and verbal ability.

McAfee, IBM, Collabera, Novell, CGI, Accenture, ITC Infotech, HCL Technologies, Mindtree are some of the companies that hire via eLitmus test.

4. MET (Mettl Employability Test)

Exam Fee: ₹299
Score Validity: 1 year

Mettl Employability Test also evaluates student’s communication skills, logical reasoning, quantitative skills and job-specific domain-skills. It has over 700 partnered recruiters. Oyo, Cisco, Make My Trip (MMT) are some of the companies that accept MET scores.

5. CEAT

Exam Fee: ₹599
Score Validity: 1 Year

Corporate Employability Assessment Test (CEAT) is conducted by FreshersWorld to evaluate aptitude, technical skills and communication skills of candidates. The technical test includes knowledge of C , C++, .NET, Java, Database, Networking, PHP, and Software Testing.

It is an online assessment test, which can be taken from anywhere at any point in time.