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How to Reduce Hiring Bias: A Guide for Talent Acquisition Professionals

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Organizations using blind screening report more diverse candidates advancing to interview stages, while companies employing skills-based assessments see an increase in diverse hires. Unconscious bias significantly impacts hiring, with talent acquisition professionals acknowledging its influence on their decisions.

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Gamification in Hiring: Innovative Tools to Assess Skills and Fit

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In the recruitment process, this means using game-based assessments or simulations to evaluate a candidate’s competencies in a more immersive and engaging way. Candidates are more likely to fully participate in the assessment, allowing recruiters to observe their capabilities in a real-world simulation.

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The Importance of Assessing Interpersonal Skills in Recruitment

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Challenges in assessing interpersonal skills Assessing interpersonal skills during recruitment can be more complex than evaluating technical capabilities. Such differences can result in biased assessments. Limited interaction time Interviews and assessments offer limited opportunities to observe a candidate’s behavior.

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How Pre-Employment Assessments Redefined Skill-Based Hiring

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At the heart of this shift lies the pre-employment assessment, a tool that has revolutionized how organizations identify, evaluate, and select top-performing candidates. What Are Pre-Employment Assessments? Types of Pre-Employment Assessments Driving the Shift 1. coding, data entry, Excel, writing).

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Interview Scorecard Free Downloadable Template

Discover the benefits of using interview scorecards to assess and compare candidates, ensuring fair and consistent evaluations. Making effective hiring decisions can be challenging, but with a standardized evaluation process, you can improve your chances of finding the ideal candidate every time.

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Skills-First Hiring: Addressing Common Misconceptions and Resistance

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Companies can also implement structured skills assessments and standardized interviews to provide objective measures of candidate abilities. Skepticism About Skills Assessments The Misconception: Some employers doubt the effectiveness of skills assessments, questioning whether these tests can accurately measure a candidate’s abilities.

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Leadership Skills Assessment: Empower Leaders for Tomorrow

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The answer lies in Leadership Skills Assessment. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about assessing leadership skills, the tools available, and how these assessments unlock leadership potential across your organization. What is a Leadership Skills Assessment? Why Assess Leadership Skills?

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Dr. Ellis will also demystify some of the research behind cultural assessments to show you how assessing for culture can fit seamlessly into your hiring process. Webinar Date & Time: March 7th, 2024 @ 1:00 PM EST

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Cracking the Culture Code: Interviewing for Culture Fit

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Join Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, for this live webinar as he guides you through an objective interview process that will help your team assess candidate's alignment with your organizational culture. Space is limited, register today! Webinar Date & Time: May 1st, 2024 @ 1:00 PM EDT

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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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Predict Retention with Confidence: What to Look for Before You Hire

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In this practical, fast-paced session, you’ll learn how HR, Talent Acquisition, and Operations leaders are improving retention before day one using personalized assessments. It’s a pattern rooted in hiring misalignment.

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Attract the Right Talent with a Strong Employer Brand

Speaker: BountyJobs + HCI Webinar

Watch the replay of our popular webinar to learn more about: The significance of a well-defined employer brand in attracting the right talent Practical steps to enhance and assess your employer brand Immediate tasks you can undertake to kickstart your journey

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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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How to Hire for Potential: Looking Beyond the Resume for Top Talent

Webinar Date & Time: April 3rd, 2025, @ 1:00 PM EDT

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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?