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Ensuring Fairness in Automated Hiring: A First-of-Its-Kind Study on Machine Learning and Personality Assessment in Recorded Interviews

Recruiting Daily

Machine learning tools for video interviewing platforms have been on the receiving end of sharp criticism, and not without justification.

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8 Modern Personality Assessment Tools for Your Team

Recruiting Daily Advisor

HR professionals may depend on personality assessments for training and onboarding. Instead of exploring a range of personality traits, this assessment focuses on strengths and highlights a person’s top 5 attributes out of 34 possibilities , which include characteristics such as positivity, achievement, and helpfulness.

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Case Study Interviews vs. Skills Testing: Which is Better, and Why?

Vervoe

The case study interview has long been the preferred method for recruiters hoping to glean insight into a candidate’s real talent. Case interviews have traditionally been used by top consulting firms like Bain and McKinsey, but more and more companies are beginning to use this method in their hiring practices.

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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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Tangled Up In Who: Building The Business Case for Personality Assessments.

Recruiting Daily

In this area, the scientific study and application of personality theory has yielded a wealth of insight (and terrabytes of data) when it comes to collectively managing individual outcomes. A Quick One: Building The Business Case For Personality Assessments.

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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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Tips For Acing Your Next Private Equity Interview

Recruiting Blogs

Whether you are Pre-MBA or Post-MBA candidate, the most crucial part of getting into the private equity industry is cracking the interview. You may have all the skills to become a Private Equity professional, but if you don’t perform well in the interview, you may never get the chance to prove yourself on the job.