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

Recruitics

To reduce hiring bias in recruitment, practical strategies, from blind resume screening to structured interviews and AI-powered tools, help organizations build diverse, high-performing teams. Unconscious bias significantly impacts hiring, with talent acquisition professionals acknowledging its influence on their decisions.

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How to Conduct a Structured Interview

Lever

A structured interview is a systematic approach to hiring where recruiters leverage a predetermined set of questions and standardized assessment criteria to determine whether a candidate is right for a role. Unlike other types of interviews, such as unstructured ones, structured interviews.

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How to Evaluate Soft Skills During Interviews: A Guide for Hiring Managers

Social Talent

Yet, assessing these intangible skills can be challenging. By assessing these skills early, hiring managers can ensure a smoother onboarding process and foster a supportive, engaged, and productive team. These examples allow interviewers to see beyond generic claims and observe how candidates demonstrate core skills in real situations.

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How to Conduct Competency-Based Interviews

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

One strategy is to hire based on core competencies, assessing a candidate’s prior experience with the most important components of a job. In this post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about competency-based interviews, which can help you hire strong performers who can hit the ground running and quickly add value to their teams.

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Interview Scorecard Free Downloadable Template

Discover the benefits of using interview scorecards to assess and compare candidates, ensuring fair and consistent evaluations. Our free interview scorecard template allows you to customize criteria and track candidate progress, helping you make informed hiring decisions.

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Star Interview Questions

Lever

The typical introductory job interview poses a variety of questions. Categorically, these inquiries are designed to assess the experience, interest, communication skills, creative thinking abilities, motivation, and cultural alignment of an interviewee to ensure a best-fit hire. Some common interview questions are.

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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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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology. This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity.

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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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The Art of Selecting Candidate Pre-Hire Assessments

Speaker: Melissa Dobbins, Founder & CEO, Career.Place

One powerful method to do this is through psychometric assessments. The RIGHT assessments used in the RIGHT way provide objective evaluation of criteria that are far more accurate than interviews alone. So, how do you choose the right assessments? The short answer: Very carefully.

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How to Improve Hiring Outcomes with One-Way Video Interviews

Speaker: Ellie Dailey — Global Recruiting Expert & Team Lead for BetterUp Europe GTM Recruiting via Russell Tobin, and Jeremy Tolan — Partnerships Manager at Spark Hire

At some point, we all have to stop and assess how we can lighten the load. With work being mainly remote, your potential employees can be across the globe and can’t always get to an in-person interview. But despite the many perks of video interviewing, we have yet to fully implement this into the modern workspace.

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Finding the Diamond in Your Candidate Pool

Speaker: Anise Wiley-Little - Author, Senior Executive, Board Member and Managing Partner at MEGA-K Enterprises LLC

Inclusive hiring minimizes bias and creates an equitable application, interview, selection, and offer process for candidates from all backgrounds. You will leave this session with the tools and guidance necessary to take your diversity and inclusion talent acquisition process to the next level.

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The Road Map to Improving the "Quality of Hire" in Your Organization

Speaker: Matt Craven, Talent Acquisition Project Manager, Schneider Electric

Is interviewing enough? Is using assessment tools enough? How does an organization minimize their risk? What steps do they take to improve the “quality of hire”? Most importantly, how do you measure change in quality of hire? Are references enough?

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

Recruitment AI technology uncovers the most qualified candidates. This technology automates recruiting routines and facilitates natural conversations, resulting in higher productivity and a better candidate experience. Download the eBook to learn more!