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Using Personality Assessments in Hiring

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Does your organization utilize personality assessments as part of the hiring process? Why Do Employers Use Personality Tests During the Hiring Process? Placing someone in a role that is not suited to his or her personality can result in reduced satisfaction—and eventually turnover. Many organizations do.

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Workable Assessments: The science behind it all

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Due to their abstract nature, personalities and cognitive abilities are not as easy to assess as, say, a candidate’s coding skills or the ability to close a lucrative sales deal. Since you’re digitally transforming your entire recruitment process, it makes sense that you can and should digitize your assessments as well.

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A Strategic Approach to Hiring Assessments

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Of course, you can’t automate the entire process, as this activity needs a human approach—something that can’t be put into mere numbers. What you can do instead is collect candidate data so you can prepare for the personal conversations you will have with them. Preemployment assessments are good predictors of job performance.

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Assessing Personality Types When Hiring – Astrology or Science?

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The data can favor the latter, with 75% of large companies saying they use personality assessments to screen their applicants. And, if that’s not enough, 2016 research shows a combination of cognitive ability and personality tests predicted role performance with 78% accuracy. Let’s look at each one in turn.

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Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students

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” Students take the same courses, have similar grades and have similar experiences. I needed this person to have the right personality to be data savvy, hard-working, and assertive. Often, these soft-skills did not match how they presented themselves in the interview.

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9 Steps to an Effective Talent Assessment Strategy

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Sifting through bad-fit applications is a tiring process – but it doesn’t need to be with the right talent assessment strategy and a few skills tests. If you’re unfamiliar with talent assessments, it will probably sound like it’s just a bunch of tests, right? But it’s so much more. Let’s get into it!

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

Recruiting Daily

By individual characteristics, of course. I’m referencing stuff like intrinsic motivation, interpersonal dynamics, cognitive ability and personal skills or experience. A Quick One: Building The Business Case For Personality Assessments.