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Skills-First Hiring: Addressing Common Misconceptions and Resistance

Social Talent

Companies can also implement structured skills assessments and standardized interviews to provide objective measures of candidate abilities. Skepticism About Skills Assessments The Misconception: Some employers doubt the effectiveness of skills assessments, questioning whether these tests can accurately measure a candidate’s abilities.

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8 Steps to Researching Talent Competitors

Rally Recruitment Marketing

I teach this methodology in my virtual course, Mastering AI for Employer Branding , and today Im going to share with you the steps to conducting this research yourself. It also can assess inclusivity by checking for bias and ensuring gender-neutral language. Check out my top-rated virtual course: Mastering AI for Employer Branding.

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Leadership Skills Assessments: The Secret to Identifying Great Leaders 

Vervoe

To solve this challenge, several hiring managers and businesses are turning to leadership skills assessments. So, what are these assessments, and why are they a popular solution for finding leadership potential? Join us as we discuss leadership assessment tests in detail, what they entail, and how they can work for you.

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Defining Excellence in Recruitment: A Call for Industry-Wide Collaboration

Social Talent

You know exactly what you need to do: find an educational provider that offers a curriculum approved by a governing body, with courses designed to cover the essential knowledge required for the role. Imagine, for a moment, that you want to become an accountant. There’s a set bar that every provider must meet. Now, think about recruitment.

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Design Thinking for Virtual Onboarding

Speaker: Tim Schuurman, Alwin Put, and Miranda Oliver

With design thinking, of course! What you'll learn: The basic principles to help you take a step back and assess onboarding in its current state––where are things falling apart? Trust us, your new hires don’t want to sit through 8+ hours of Zoom meetings on their first day. But how do you do that? What’s working?

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How to Assess Cognitive Thinking to Hire Exceptional Candidates

Vervoe

Fortunately, this guide has everything you need to know about cognitive thinking and how to assess it properly. How to Assess for Cognitive Thinking in Recruitment Assessing cognitive thinking is a delicate process with different approaches, some more effective than others. What is cognitive thinking?

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Email Marketing: The Missing Piece in Your Recruiting Strategy

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Start by assessing your talent database and determining how many candidates you actually have permission to send marketing emails tomeaning they have explicitly opted in. By leveraging email to engage talent, you can lower hiring costs, build stronger candidate relationships and speed up the hiring process. Whats your next step?

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