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Should I Use Cognitive or Skills-Based Assessments for New Hires?

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s no surprise that in an age where there are often many candidates applying for any given job, many hiring managers are using pre-employment assessments to review applicants. Using assessments can help a company find new employees who are the best fit for its company culture and for the position.

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Gamification in Interviews: 4 Lessons from Assessments

Recruiting Daily

Real-World IT Problem-Solving Interviews We’ve integrated live, broken environments into our IT assessments, providing candidates with real-world problem-solving scenarios reflective of daily engineering challenges. As an engineer myself, I understand the preference for hands-on, non-people-facing assessments.

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How To Assess A Candidate’s Leadership Potential

Spark Hire

Assessing for leadership potential as you hire is hugely important. As you’re hiring, here are some components to focus on to be sure you’re properly assessing a candidate’s’ leadership potential. Their energy levels. The ability to assess and use employees’ strengths. Their ability to assess risks effectively.

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How To Know If Your Careers Site Isn’t Converting Applicants (And What to Do About It)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Karl noted, “you invest a lot of time and energy in creating an employer brand and an identity that’s unique and authentic to your company, and then you share the stage with your ATS provider?”. And potentially even more times for assessment tools and other various means of collecting data. . Do we even need it at all? .

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How to: Use Strengths-Based Recruitment to Improve Your Placements

Social Talent

By assessing the qualities that would make someone “good” at their job, which may or may not be actual hard skills, recruiters are able to craft more effective job descriptions based on strengths instead of competencies, and conduct interviews that allow a candidate’s energy, enthusiasm, and strengths to shine through.

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Energy Risk Underwriter Best Practices

Professional Alternatives

Energy Risk Underwriter Best Practices. Part of energy risk assessment is loan writing and insurance protection. Taking risks is part of the insurance business whether it’s in the energy sector or not. These underwriter practices are important for everyone focusing on energy loans and energy risk insurance.

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Identifying and Managing the Root Cause of Poor Employee Performance

ClearCompany Recruiting

On the other hand, you could be pushing them too far into areas they know little about, resulting in time and energy intensive on-the-job training , decreasing productivity. In other cases, there may be a genuine financial need to assess performance and establish standards for the coming fiscal year, given COVID-related changes and effects.