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How to Reduce Hiring Bias: A Guide for Talent Acquisition Professionals

Recruitics

Key Takeaways Companies with high ethnic and cultural diversity outperform competitors in profitability, while diverse teams demonstrate better decision-making capabilities. Unconscious bias significantly impacts hiring, with talent acquisition professionals acknowledging its influence on their decisions.

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Navigating the Complexities of Global Talent Acquisition

Recruitics

Hiring across borders presents challenges such as cultural and linguistic differences, complex employment laws, and difficulties in assessing candidate qualifications. Successful global hiring strategies include partnering with local experts, leveraging recruitment technology, and cultivating an international company culture.

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Overcoming Challenges in Inclusive Hiring: Strategies and Solutions

Social Talent

Platforms like SocialTalent can help you create a culture of learning and elevate talent acquisition professionals’ skills and knowledge in this area. Solution : Opt instead for “culture add”. Impact : Without proper metrics, it’s challenging to assess progress and hold recruiters accountable for diversity goals.

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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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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? Dr. Ellis will also demystify some of the research behind cultural assessments to show you how assessing for culture can fit seamlessly into your hiring process.

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Gamification in Hiring: Innovative Tools to Assess Skills and Fit

TeamBuilderSearch

In the recruitment process, this means using game-based assessments or simulations to evaluate a candidate’s competencies in a more immersive and engaging way. Candidates are more likely to fully participate in the assessment, allowing recruiters to observe their capabilities in a real-world simulation.

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The Importance of Assessing Interpersonal Skills in Recruitment

Hacker Earth

Challenges in assessing interpersonal skills Assessing interpersonal skills during recruitment can be more complex than evaluating technical capabilities. Such differences can result in biased assessments. Limited interaction time Interviews and assessments offer limited opportunities to observe a candidate’s behavior.

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today! Webinar Date & Time: May 1st, 2024 @ 1:00 PM EDT

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Strategically Manage Your Culture to Shape Retention

Speaker: Jared Jones, Senior Partner, Partners in Leadership

After uncovering and understanding their current concerns, areas of excitement, and opportunities for growth, it becomes necessary to showcase the employee experience that will be required to effectively manage the culture of your team. November 20, 2019 11:00 AM PST, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT

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Designing Equitable Performance: How to Create Fair, Inclusive Assessments

Speaker: Aubrey Blanche & Sahra Kaboli-Nejad

Join Culture Amp’s Global Head of Equitable Design and Impact, Aubrey Blanche, along with Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Lead Sahra Kaboli-Nejad, to discuss how we can re-evaluate our performance management systems. And Black women face these overlapping biases in even more extreme ways, according to a study by Nextions.

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HR Secrets: How to Secure Executive Buy-In for Your HR Initiatives

Speaker: Steve Pruneau - Chief of Consulting Operations and HRIS solution architect at Free Agent Source Inc

We must align our interests and values if we want to improve our bottom line and enrich our company culture. There are always new initiatives we want to get off the ground, but we can’t get anywhere without the support of our executives. Steve Pruneau, Solution Architect, is here to offer his expert insights in this webinar.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic toolkit for impactful upskilling initiatives. Let’s embrace a skills-based future and unlock unparalleled value for your organization and its people.

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Does Your Workforce Have the Talent DNA for the Digital Future?

There are the hard costs of recruiting, assessing, hiring, and onboarding, and the soft costs of time spent learning organizational culture and ways of working. Attracting external talent with the skills you’ll need in the future comes at a premium. These costs go up even more in a tight job market where top talent is in short supply.

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Employee Wellbeing & DEI: Supporting Inclusivity Throughout the Employee Life Cycle

Speaker: Catherine Mattice - Culture Consultant, Business Coach, Strategic HR Expert

At the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to: Use employer branding techniques that speak to inclusivity in order to attract talent that fits an inclusive culture. Assess current retention practices for inclusivity and adjust accordingly in order to decrease employee turnover.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Build a Vibrant Virtual Culture 🌈 Explore proven techniques to foster a strong company culture among remote employees. Evaluate and Enhance Onboarding Programs 📊 Gain strategies to assess your current remote onboarding process.