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Why Active Learning Outperforms Baselining in Candidate Skill Assessments

Vervoe

Baselining in skill assessments is popular for its one-size-fits-all approach to selecting picture-perfect employees. Here, we’ll explore reasons why you should consider active learning over baselining in candidate skill assessments and how this can benefit your team. Here’s how.

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Guide to Interviewing for Soft Skills + 10 Interview Questions

SmartRecruiters

When interviewing candidates as a hiring manager , it’s easy to get tunnel vision on the hard skills they’ll bring to the role. In this guide, you learn how to interview for soft skills to help you make the best hire for your team. Soft skills help you gauge whether an individual will perform beyond the employee honeymoon phase.

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Reference Checks: Sample Questions and Best Practices

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

If there is one thing candidates and hiring managers can agree on, it’s that reference checks can be a pain. Always do your reference checks to catch red flags before making a bad hire and assess fit before making an offer. We’ll also give you sample reference check questions for your next interview round.

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OutMatch Combines Assessments, Video, References Into Single ‘Stack’

Recruiting Daily

OutMatch launched the Hiring Experience Stack, a “seamless orchestration” of capabilities in assessments, video interviews and reference checking that it says will deliver a more humanized, candidate-driven hiring experience. CEO Greg Moran said the stack allows candidates to “drive their own selection process.”

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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? Are references 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?

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How to Craft Behavioral Interview Questions [and Get Revealing Answers]

SmartRecruiters

One of the toughest things about interviewing is making the most of your limited time with a candidate—especially if you’re assessing skills that you have little or no experience with yourself. In fact, behavioral interview questions are 55% predictive of future on-the-job behavior (while traditional questions are only 10% predictive).

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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. Attention Otherwise known as focusing, attention refers to the ability of a candidate to center their mind on a specific stimulus, information, or issue. What is cognitive thinking? Cognitive tests can be verbal or nonverbal.

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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.