Headquartered in New York City, global HR consultancy Mercer, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., acquired online assessment platform Mettl based in Gurugram, India. Ilya Bonic, global president of Mercer’s career line of business believes that the acquisition signifies Mercer’s entry into the rapidly-growing global talent assessment market and further enhances its position as a trusted strategic talent advisor to companies.
Founded in 2010, Mettl offers its multilingual assessments conducted in over 80 countries. Mettl was recognized as one of the twenty most innovative and high-growth companies in India by London & Partners’ IE20 list in 2017 and was retained as an assessment provider by the Government of India for their Skill Development Initiative. The platform provides content across psychometric assessments, aptitude tests and IT/Non-IT domain tests, along with a SaaS (software as a service) platform to conduct secure online assessments.
According to the World Economic Forum, a widening skills gap is one of the biggest challenges in the fourth industrial revolution, and a robust assessment platform is fundamental to the development of a skills-focused talent strategy. “We believe that online talent assessment is a powerful tool that can help companies unlock the potential of their people. Mettl is a disruptive HR tech start-up that has pioneered a robust assessment platform,” said Puneet Swani, Career Business Leader for Mercer’s Growth Markets region.
