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Why Candidate Assessments And Interview Assignments Can Hurt The Hiring Process

Forbes Human Resources Council

Unpopular perspective: Personality assessments, aptitude tests and candidate interview assignments are detrimental to the hiring process.

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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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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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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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Introducing anonymized screening: Encourage inclusivity

Workable

Workable helps companies in 100+ countries create a more inclusive hiring practice with diverse candidate sourcing, anonymized screening and structured interviewing. Stay tuned for more to come in 2021, including customizable post-application surveys, enhanced reporting and native cognitive and personality assessments.

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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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4 Simple Ways to Optimize Your Recruiting Processes in 2018

Proactive Talent

Sometimes the fat is a two-hour personality assessment no one actually looks at, and other times a third round phone interview prior bringing the candidate onsite. Analyzing how recruitment is performed across the board, and the hoops we require both candidate and recruiter to jump through should be the first step.