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Time to Get Personal: How to Get the Most Out of A Candidate’s First Interview

Traitify

Fast forward to 2013 and I watch as the same reliance on these intangibles surface in job interviews across around the world. Modern personality assessments like the Big Five Personality Inventory can accurately measure a person’s Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability.

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Time to Get Personal: How to Get the Most Out of A Candidate’s First Interview

Traitify

Fast forward to 2013 and I watch as the same reliance on these intangibles surface in job interviews across around the world. Modern personality assessments like the Big Five Personality Inventory can accurately measure a person’s Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Emotional Stability.

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One Personality Trait Great Candidates Share—and How to Spot It

Linkedin Talent Blog

The concept of grit as a positive personality trait was pioneered by psychologist Angela Ducksworth. Angela won the 2013 MacArthur “Genius Grant” for her research into grit, which included studying the work habits of former National Spelling Bee champions. Use personality assessments to test for grit and teamwork skills.

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Forget Interview Questions: 4 Fresh Tactics to Screen Candidates for Emotional Intelligence

Linkedin Talent Blog

Have candidates take personality assessments. Personality assessments can also offer insight into a candidate’s EQ levels. This assessment is meant to evaluate “how likely a job candidate will perform certain behaviors on the job that support [the] Amtrak culture.”. That something includes EQ levels.

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Staffing News of the Day, February 13, 2013

Staffing Talk

Don’t do personality assessments of your workforce [Cynical Girl]. Australia’s fly-in fly-out temp worker program is a “cancer” to rural areas [9 News]. ERE recognizes the best recruiting, websites, referrals, branding, and tech usage in the biz [ERE]. Great employees aren’t replaceable [Forbes]. Why job descriptions are useless [ERE].

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The Biggest Staffing Talk Losers of 2013

Staffing Talk

As we prepare to close out 2013, we thought we would comb through the Staffing Talk archives to highlight some of the staffing lowlights of the year. It should make for some light and entertaining holiday reading. Is recruiting really like dating though?

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Skill and Personality: Integrating Factors in Hiring Decisions

Plum.io

Can a personality assessment be of use in a heavily skills-based industry? There has been an increase in conversation in the HR world on the topic of hiring for personality – and for good reason. There has been an increase in conversation in the HR world on the topic of hiring for personality – and for good reason.

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