Employee assessments can provide organizations with consistent, in-depth, and objective information about employees to help with key personnel decisions. Assessments measure factors like job fit, skills, performance, and development needs. This information helps leaders and managers rely less on intuition and make smarter hiring, development, and workforce planning decisions. Common types of assessments evaluate hard and soft skills, job performance, and job matching. Assessments can be used throughout the employee lifecycle for screening, selecting, onboarding, managing, developing, and succession planning.