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Recruiting Trends to Watch

NPA Worldwide

Qualigence International has released its 2016 Recruiting Trends white paper. Candidate Assessments. Employers are getting more sophisticated in how candidates are evaluated, from video interviewing to personality assessments to sample work assignments and more. Customized Benefits.

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Assessing Personality Types When Hiring – Astrology or Science?

Hundred5

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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6 Diversity and Inclusion Leaders Share Their Reading Recommendations

Linkedin Talent Blog

women when she started in late 2016. Leadership starts with you, and the book starts with a personal assessment. The head of inclusion, diversity, and workforce transition at the Australian mining giant BHP , Fiona has been tasked with getting the company’s workforce to gender parity by 2025 — it was 17.6% Great read!”.

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Diversity Hiring: 6 Steps To Hiring More Diverse Candidates

Ideal

Assess the diversity of your current hiring process and identify any potential bottlenecks and discrepancies. Tool 1: P re-hire assessment. Research has found that companies that use a pre-hire personality assessment have workplaces that are more racially diverse. Is it a top of the funnel issue? no adverse impact).

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New Marketplace Additions: December 2016

SmartRecruiters

In December 2016, we added three new partners, including eSkill , First Advantage , and T&CC. As an innovator in professional skills assessment technology since 2003, eSkill provides online testing for applicant screening and staff training to thousands of staffing firms and HR Departments worldwide.”

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3 Applicant Tracking Systems That Will Help You Hire Generation Z

Capterra

In 2016, 78% of Millennials used their phones to search for and apply for jobs. You should also keep an eye out for systems that either integrate with or have their own pre-hire * and skills assessments. ApplicantPro also has integrated pre-hire and skill assessment programs. Your careers site needs to be mobile-optimized.

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The Square Peg And Round Hole Candidate Syndrome

Sirona Consulting

With the changing talent landscape and the need to expand the talent pool more employers are moving to assessments to help them reduce their risk in decision making, and at the same time predict the future top performers. What I find fascinating is that many of these are now being assessed through games played on your mobile phone.