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What are Candidate Assessments?

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Key Takeaways: Candidate assessments are used by companies to evaluate potential employees and streamline the hiring process. Candidate assessments help identify the most qualified candidates and automate the screening process, reducing time spent on unqualified applicants.

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How to Assess Soft Skills: 9 Leaders Share Their Best Advice

TalentCulture - Recruiting

That’s why future-minded employers want to assess soft skills during the recruitment process. To help you […] The post How to Assess Soft Skills: 9 Leaders Share Their Best Advice appeared first on TalentCulture. Rather, as technology advances, it is driving increased demand for people with exceptional soft skills.

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Skills assessment: A comprehensive guide

Devskiller

Skills assessment emerges as a critical instrument within both the educational and corporate realms, serving as a cornerstone for career advancement and enhancing organizational productivity. But what encompasses a skills assessment, and what underlines its critical importance? What is a skills assessment? Let’s dive in!

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Pre-employment Assessments Are an Essential Tool for Your Hiring Process

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What are pre-employment assessments? A pre-employment assessment is a test that a job candidate can take at the request of a potential employer. These pre-employment assessments can predict how well the candidate will perform in the new position, their personality fit, top skills, knowledge, and projected retainability.

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Emerging Regulations in the Age of AI

New legislation regulating data use and privacy is on the horizon in many parts of the world and could have ramifications for companies leveraging AI in talent assessment and selection. Waiting until laws regarding AI are crystallized in the legal system will slow down your growth — and your future-readiness.

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100 Soft Skills Assessment and Interview Questions

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We also provide 100 top soft skills assessment and interview questions that will help you identify and hire top talent. ? However, traditional interviews can be very ineffective — so much so that even studies from Harvard Business Review suggest making a quick skills assessment tests before conducting any interviews. Creativity 28.

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Need A Technical Assessments Do-Over? How To Assess Tech Skills

HIRED

Technical interview alternatives for better skill-based hiring outcomes In today’s competitive job market, talent acquisition teams and engineering leaders face a significant challenge: losing valuable job candidates due to rigid technical assessment exams. So how should you assess tech skills?

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Scaling the Digitally-Ready Workforce

The digital future will require a new set of skills, behaviors, and ways of working, but most organizations have not defined the critical competencies needed to compete in an age of disruption and do not have a process in place to assess digital readiness in their own people, a new Aon study finds.

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When Recruiter Priorities Compete: Fill Speed, Growing Req Loads, and Diversity

Even in our data-driven age of hard metrics and objective assessments, the answer is: It depends. It’s a question as old as the recruiting profession itself: How many reqs should one recruiter handle at a time?

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Does Your Workforce Have the Talent DNA for the Digital Future?

There are the hard costs of recruiting, assessing, hiring, and onboarding, and the soft costs of time spent learning organizational culture and ways of working. Attracting external talent with the skills you’ll need in the future comes at a premium. These costs go up even more in a tight job market where top talent is in short supply.

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Cracking the Career Development Code

Speaker: Julie Winkle Giulioni, Author, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want

She’ll deconstruct effective career development, offering a practical framework that makes it more doable and durable by identifying and assessing the skills gaps in your workforce.

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Discover 4 Use Cases for Applying AI to Your Recruiting Processes

Recruitment AI technology uncovers the most qualified candidates. This technology automates recruiting routines and facilitates natural conversations, resulting in higher productivity and a better candidate experience. Download the eBook to learn more!

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The Art of Selecting Candidate Pre-Hire Assessments

Speaker: Melissa Dobbins, Founder & CEO, Career.Place

One powerful method to do this is through psychometric assessments. The RIGHT assessments used in the RIGHT way provide objective evaluation of criteria that are far more accurate than interviews alone. So, how do you choose the right assessments? The short answer: Very carefully. March 26, 2020 11 AM PDT, 2 PM EDT, 6 PM GMT

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Designing Equitable Performance: How to Create Fair, Inclusive Assessments

Speaker: Aubrey Blanche & Sahra Kaboli-Nejad

We are all susceptible to bias and strive to mitigate it through reading, taking classes, and participating in trainings - yet, it seems like these aren’t driving the change we need. Women tend to receive vague, personality-based feedback, where men tend to receive performance-based feedback.

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Finding Future Leaders: A New Model for Leadership Assessment

Which behaviors will leaders need today–and how does that compare to what is needed in the future? This paper presents new research about the leadership characteristics that create the diversity of thought and nimbleness your company requires to navigate this volatile era.