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The Pros and Cons of Skill Assessment Tests and Software

Contract Recruiter

Two pressures run counter to one another in the hiring process. On the one hand, you want to be thorough, and you need to make sure that you’re hiring the best possible candidates. If you have a relatively large pool of potential candidates and want to narrow that pool down, a skills assessment is one way to handle it.

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Top Tools and Resources to Create Pre-Employment Assessments

Contract Recruiter

A critical part of the hiring process is testing your candidates to make sure they will fit in with the company. This means testing several different aspects of a candidate; their ethics, their personality, their skills, and so on. Hiring the wrong people can seriously hurt your company morale, culture, happiness, and productivity.

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The Multitasking Test: How to Find Superheroes

The Hire Talent

We don’t have to tell you why cognitive tests are the surefire way towards hiring talent. We have to say to you that a mix of cognitive assessments, personality inventories, and interviews always works better than either of them taken individually. Personality Inventories. Based Dismissal (December 2012).

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