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Guide to Interviewing for Soft Skills + 10 Interview Questions

SmartRecruiters

When interviewing candidates as a hiring manager , it’s easy to get tunnel vision on the hard skills they’ll bring to the role. In this guide, you learn how to interview for soft skills to help you make the best hire for your team. Soft skills help you gauge whether an individual will perform beyond the employee honeymoon phase.

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Reference Checks: Sample Questions and Best Practices

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

If there is one thing candidates and hiring managers can agree on, it’s that reference checks can be a pain. Always do your reference checks to catch red flags before making a bad hire and assess fit before making an offer. We’ll also give you sample reference check questions for your next interview round.

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Skills Assessment Test: Definition, Benefits, Process & Examples

Hundred5

Skills assessment tests improve hiring success by allowing candidates to practically demonstrate their skill sets, personality traits, and real-life job performance. 2023 saw a 27% rise in companies using assessment tools to find the best candidate s, so if you’re new to skills assessments, let us catch you up.

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What is Topgrading Interviewing?

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

We’ll explore an interviewing strategy that can help you evaluate candidates more comprehensively, which can prevent bad hires and take the quality of your entire workforce to the next level. It’s called topgrading interviewing. What is Topgrading Interviewing? Here’s an example interview scorecard for a company CEO.

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Building AI to Unlearn Bias in Recruiting

Research shows that the hiring process is biased and unfair. While we have made progress to solve this, it’s potentially at risk due to advancements in AI technology. This eBook covers these issues & shows you how AI can ensure workplace diversity.

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How to Conduct Competency-Based Interviews

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

One strategy is to hire based on core competencies, assessing a candidate’s prior experience with the most important components of a job. In this post, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about competency-based interviews, which can help you hire strong performers who can hit the ground running and quickly add value to their teams.

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14 Questions You Should Ask When Checking References

Linkedin Talent Blog

To the list of things that people either love or hate — cats, brussels sprouts, Taylor Swift — we can safely add reference checks. One of the reasons reference checking can feel unproductive is that many companies put no structure in place when asking candidates to list references.