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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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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. The filtering is job-related and EEOC compliant.

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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. This is why résumés and interviews are inherently poor methods of validating skills. Pre-employment assessment is focused on predicting how people will behave in certain scenarios, not what they can do.

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Elevating Your Front Desk: Tips for Recruiting Outstanding Entry-Level Talent

Professional Alternatives

Interview Techniques and Best Practices for Hiring Entry-Level Receptionists The interview process is a critical step in hiring entry-level receptionists. It allows you to assess a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and fit for the role and your organization. This ensures consistency and fairness in evaluating candidates.

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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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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.

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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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