The Hire Talent

MARCH 17, 2023

Assessment to Hire the Best As a business leader, your team is only as good as the people you lead. Yet finding team players based on gut feeling alone is bound to fail. You may look at a resume and think you’ve discovered the next Magic Johnson, only to find out they’re the next Kyrie Irving. When employees don’t put their team first, they let everybody down.

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 20, 2023

Leadership skills are critical for any thriving business. From the meteoric rise of Apple to the disastrous fall of Enron, companies live or die by the intelligence, intuition, and integrity of their leaders. Unfortunately, leadership skills can be exceptionally hard to gauge when hiring new talent. You may think you’ve landed the next Tim Cook, only to find it’s the next Kenneth Lay.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As a hiring manager, you’ve seen it before: A candidate nails their interview and charms your team with their easy demeanor. But— Fast-forward 30 days, and it turns out their talk was cheap. In fact, day-to-day, they have zero communication skills. Any organization values great communication, yet it can be difficult to find job candidates who have them.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

By Victor Lipman Use this logic test to hire smarter employees a lot faster. The business world is a rational place. Your organization is guided by specific goals and metrics. Your managers translate them into performance standards, and your employees work diligently to meet them. Well — at least that’s the theory. It’s great when it works, but too often it doesn’t.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As a hiring manager, there’s nothing more deflating than finding the “perfect” candidate amid a sea of resumes, only to learn that their mental skills are a little on the Spongebob side. Sadly, it happens far too often, especially when employers lack the means to test cognitive ability. Widely recognized as the top predictor of job performance, cognitive ability shows employers how well a new hire can process and apply information.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Any job seeker worth their salt likely prides themself as a critical thinker. Sadly, bold promises in an interview don’t always paint a realistic picture of the candidate you’re looking to land. Without a reliable way to test for critical thinking, someone you hire to be Sherlock Holmes may turn out to be Inspector Clouseau. Critical thinking may seem like a “soft skill,” but in truth, it’s anything but.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As a hiring manager, you’ve seen it before: A candidate nails their interview and charms your team with their easy demeanor. But— Fast-forward 30 days, and it turns out their talk was cheap. In fact, day-to-day, they have zero communication skills. Any organization values great communication, yet it can be difficult to find job candidates who have them.

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The Hire Talent

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a hiring manager, you’ve seen it before: A candidate nails their interview and charms your team with their easy demeanor. But— Fast-forward 30 days, and it turns out their talk was cheap. In fact, day-to-day, they have zero communication skills. Any organization values great communication, yet it can be difficult to find job candidates who have them.

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The Hire Talent

JANUARY 24, 2023

Use this interpersonal skills test to weed out problem employees before you hire them. It’s hard to think of a single attribute that causes more widespread issues than problems with interpersonal skills. It’s frustrating — and regrettably common — to hire someone with the exact technical background you’ve been looking for, only to discover they have serious trouble collaborating with others and have alienated virtually everyone on the team.

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The Hire Talent

JANUARY 9, 2023

There’s nothing more disappointing than hiring an encouraging candidate, only to find they’re not the person they claimed to be. Too often, recruiters take candidates at face value and end up surprised when those hires turn out to be dishonest. When you don’t test for integrity, you run the risk of hiring bad actors who can jeopardize your business and cost you time and money.

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The Hire Talent

JANUARY 9, 2023

Use this sales skills test to hire your next Zig Ziglar. There’s nothing more demoralizing than hiring someone who sold you during an interview, only to find out they can’t actually sell to your customers. Unfortunately, mishires are a common occurrence in the sales world, especially in highly competitive “sink or swim” environments. While bad hires are costly from a training perspective, they’re even more expensive when deals are on the line.

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The Hire Talent

JANUARY 9, 2023

As a leader, the ability to hire employees successfully is one of the most important skills you can develop. A successful hiring process can make all the difference between wild success and miserable failure for a company. But what makes hiring managers truly successful? Here are some key tips and strategies to help you succeed in this important role.

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The Hire Talent

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The True Cost of Hiring. We know that it’s going to cost money to hire a new employee. That’s a given. But what about when that new employee doesn’t work out? Turnover & Employee Retention. The costs of turnover for workers can be upwards of 30% of a person’s annual salary, on average. One study revealed that for some very highly skilled or complex positions, turnover costs can reach as high as 213% of that person’s annual salary.

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The Hire Talent

JULY 9, 2021

Finding the right sort of personality to join your company can be very challenging. There are billions of people living in the world, and only a handful that would truly be a perfect match for your business’ culture and work ethic. A machine can function properly only when all of its cogs are synergistic and well-oiled, and we’d argue that applies to your organization as well.

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The Hire Talent

JULY 16, 2021

Maintaining maximum workplace efficiency can be a very difficult venture , especially when taking into consideration the many whims and vagaries of your employees. With the average workplace requiring the completion of dozen of tasks each day, it can be easy to forget the importance of occasionally evaluating the performance of your workers. This is why performance management is important.

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The Hire Talent

JULY 14, 2021

Finding the perfect hire for your company’s culture and work ethic can be an impossible task these days, which is why making an effort to carefully screen your candidates through the CCAT is well worth it. Too often companies jump at the opportunity of hiring what appears to be a great hire that later turns out to be much less than expected or even catastrophic in the long term.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 25, 2021

In 2018, the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report predicted that 75 million jobs would disappear by 2022 across 20 major economies. At the same time, the experts predicted the creation of 133 million new roles, driven by technological advances and continuous digital transformation. However, the pandemic changed everything to the core. The WEF’s Future of Jobs Report published at the end of 2020 reveals a challenging reality regarding job displacements, skills gaps, and new ap

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 23, 2021

When you evaluate top-tier candidates to make them a hiring offer, you sometimes realize they are in a tie. Every so often, it happens that two candidates achieve excellent scores on your pre-employment tests. One has more work experience; the other is a rock star at soft skills. They both may have also passed your behavioral assessments with flying colors and even aced your initial interview.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 18, 2021

We teach job candidates that recruiters often wrap up an interview by asking do you have any questions for me. Most career-oriented outlets recommend applicants to take this question seriously, as hiring managers are not just polite; they have a secret agenda. When you are out there on the candidate-driven market hunting for talent, the “do you have any questions” part of the interview acts as a double-bladed sword.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 16, 2021

Reference checking is a vital part of your recruitment process. You can base your hiring decision on the candidates’ resumes, pre-employment assessment tests, and in-person interviews. However, you should not skip this step, as it offers you insights into the applicants as no other instruments can. When you design and optimize your automated reference checking system, you need to pay attention to the reference check questions.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 11, 2021

An interview is an amazing opportunity for hiring managers to get a sense of who the candidate is, what they’re capable of, and whether their skills and attitudes align with the position. It’s also an opportunity for candidates to show off their personality and demonstrate that they are the right fit for your company. Finding sales superstars is not an easy feat.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 9, 2021

Diversity in the workplace is far from being a fad, an HR buzzword, a “feel-good” move, or a “political correctness” trend. It is one of the engines that drive the success of any organization in our modern times. Most companies and hiring agencies consider diversity recruiting the steppingstone for innovation, creative problem solving, increased profits, and excellent employer branding.

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The Hire Talent

JUNE 4, 2021

Social media recruiting is a modern talent acquisition tactic combining employer branding, recruitment marketing, and employee referral strategies. As modern recruitment goes, social media plays a crucial part in gaining access to both active and passive job seekers. The trick is to find them on the networks/platforms they use. Today, we will discuss some things related to social media recruiting, social media recruiting strategies, benefits, and implementation tips.

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The Hire Talent

MAY 14, 2021

As we said on previous occasions, the hiring process has become harder and lengthier these days. However, companies and recruiters have access to a galaxy of solutions and tools to speed up the process. In a world where it can take more than a month to fill a position, something needs to change how we find employees. To give you a hand, today, we put together a list of tips and shortcuts on how to find employees faster and more efficiently using instruments that you already have or can access qu

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The Hire Talent

MAY 12, 2021

Candidate reference checking is quite a hot debate among hiring managers. The advocates claim that it yields tremendous benefits: it allows recruiters to gain first-hand genuine and relevant insight into a candidate’s experience, skills, performance, and personality. On the other hand, the naysayers argue that the reference checking procedure is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

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The Hire Talent

MAY 7, 2021

Organizations conduct many different types of interviews throughout employees’ career journeys. From second interviews meant to learn more about the candidates who made a positive impression the first time you met them to exit interviews when an employee leaves, we have quite a varied menu of tools at our disposal. However, today’s focus is on those interview types that recruiters conduct to assess new candidates for hire.

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The Hire Talent

MAY 5, 2021

When employees (no matter the role/position) show strong self-management skills, they tend to be more successful in their organization. As a soft ability, self-management is trainable. The skills it encompasses can increase a person’s productivity and independence. We look for such self-management skills in managers in human resources, but we should not forget about them when we hire new coworkers either.

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 30, 2021

Currently, looking for candidates only when a position opens and skipping all the crucial steps of a talent-oriented recruiting strategy is a recipe for disaster. Companies that do not use a custom hiring system face high employee turnover, low productivity rates, and significant monetary losses. We are long past the point when we posted job ads, screened candidates’ resumes, and asked interviewees where they see themselves in the next five years.

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 28, 2021

Although interviewing candidates seems to be the easiest and best part of a recruiter’s job, things are completely different in reality. Most hiring managers know what they want to hear from a candidate during the interview, and they follow a streamlined line of questioning. However, ultimately, the final decision finds its justification in a blend of “gut feelings,” impressions, personal biases (conscious or unconscious), etc.

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 9, 2021

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. We are not talking about those weird – how many pianos are there in New York – types of questions, although we will share some in the future. This guide will focus on tough interview questions and answers we expect from the candidates to give us in-depth insight into their soft skills, attitudes, behavior, criti

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 7, 2021

All employers out there are looking for candidates with excellent teamwork skills. For established employees, organizations build entire teambuilding programs, decided to grow team-oriented members. On the other hand, being a good team player and acing communication are crucial skills to put on resume for all candidates, no matter the jobs they apply for in any industry.

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The Hire Talent

APRIL 2, 2021

Hiring project managers is not an easy feat for any organization or recruiting agency. For this reason, you have to prepare your project manager interview questions mindfully. The last time we met, we discussed how to prepare for assessing project managers in the pre-employment phase. Today, we will take one step further and see some of the best questions to ask candidates who applied for this position.

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 31, 2021

All industries and all projects, big or small, need project managers. Whether you recruit for a company that needs a PM to build a bridge or a software developer needing a PM to launch a new app, you need experts with outstanding project management skills. A project manager’s role is to ensure the project runs smoothly, in time, within budget, with an engaged team behind it.

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 12, 2021

Everybody has basic computer skills in this day and age, right? As we said on a previous occasion, when candidates send their CVs via email or through a job posting board, it is clear that they have some computer skills. But is it enough to be able to use a word processor or an email client? Why do companies and recruiters even bother with listed computer skills for a resume?

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 10, 2021

A data entry typing test is a very useful tool in recruiting for jobs that require typing speed and accuracy skills. It is one of the many skills assessment tools specialists use to screen and select candidates. They have become a staple of good recruitment practices because anyone can take them as long as they have a computer and an Internet connection.

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 5, 2021

Talent acquisition is not a new thing. Competitive businesses have been practicing talent acquisition strategies for years. The core of talent acquisition is the ongoing strategy to find, select, and retain future executives, leaders, and experts. While the terms are often interchangeable, talent acquisition and HR recruiting are not the same things.

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The Hire Talent

MARCH 3, 2021

Spatial reasoning (sometimes called spatial intelligence) is the mental ability to think about objects in three dimensions or transform 2D flat graphic representations into 3D objects. Usually, in academic, clinical, or recruitment environments, experts use a spatial reasoning test to assess individuals’ spatial awareness and visual-spatial skills.

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