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How Personality Assessments Decrease Bias in Hiring

Traitify

Hiring the best candidate can be tricky and employers have to decide which are the best tools, such as interviews and personality assessments, for making their decision. One tool that is nearly universally used is the interview.

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Pre-employment assessment, skill testing and interviewing: what’s the difference?

Vervoe

We often hear terms like pre-employment assessment, skill testing and even interviewing used interchangeably. Dr. Hamilton gives the simplest of examples: “if someone is going to have to weld metal, you want see them weld metal”. This is why résumés and interviews are inherently poor methods of validating skills.

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Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students

Plum.io

Often, these soft-skills did not match how they presented themselves in the interview. I realized the importance of using a pre-employment assessment to filter through the applicants. Pre-employment assessments have grown in popularity recently. With Plum, each student is assigned a Match Score that only the employer can see.

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15 Tough Interview Questions Candidates Won’t Expect

The Hire Talent

As professional recruiters, we know that we have to go beyond run-of-the-mill interviews and draft some tough interview questions to challenge the candidates when we want to hire talent. You should design such an interview not intending to catch applicants off-guard and put them in awkward situations.

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Methods & Techniques for Screening Candidates in 2023

Recruiters Lineup

This process typically involves reviewing resumes, conducting phone or video interviews, and administering assessments or tests. Video Interviewing Video interviewing has become increasingly popular in recent years, and it has only gained more traction since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Case Study Interviews vs. Skills Testing: Which is Better, and Why?

Vervoe

The case study interview has long been the preferred method for recruiters hoping to glean insight into a candidate’s real talent. Case interviews have traditionally been used by top consulting firms like Bain and McKinsey, but more and more companies are beginning to use this method in their hiring practices.

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Tips For Acing Your Next Private Equity Interview

Recruiting Blogs

Whether you are Pre-MBA or Post-MBA candidate, the most crucial part of getting into the private equity industry is cracking the interview. You may have all the skills to become a Private Equity professional, but if you don’t perform well in the interview, you may never get the chance to prove yourself on the job.