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How Personality Assessments Decrease Bias in Hiring

Traitify

Hiring the best candidate can be tricky and employers have to decide which are the best tools, such as interviews and personality assessments, for making their decision. One tool that is nearly universally used is the interview.

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Elevating Your Front Desk: Tips for Recruiting Outstanding Entry-Level Talent

Professional Alternatives

They should be adept at managing phone calls, scheduling appointments, responding to inquiries, and maintaining a welcoming and organized reception area. They should have the ability to remain calm under pressure, handle difficult situations with grace, and provide exceptional customer service at all times.

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Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students

Plum.io

Hiring co-op students is exciting, or at least it should be. Often, these soft-skills did not match how they presented themselves in the interview. I realized the importance of using a pre-employment assessment to filter through the applicants. Pre-employment assessments have grown in popularity recently.

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15 Tough Interview Questions Candidates Won’t Expect

The Hire Talent

As professional recruiters, we know that we have to go beyond run-of-the-mill interviews and draft some tough interview questions to challenge the candidates when we want to hire talent. You should design such an interview not intending to catch applicants off-guard and put them in awkward situations.

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Pre-employment assessment, skill testing and interviewing: what’s the difference?

Vervoe

We often hear terms like pre-employment assessment, skill testing and even interviewing used interchangeably. This is why résumés and interviews are inherently poor methods of validating skills. At the same time, it is usually possible to objectively determine whether a candidate performed well. Interviewing.

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Does Your ATS Software Integrate With Pre-Hire Assessments?

Newton Software

Predict how well applicants will fit the job BEFORE the interview. NEWTON + PRE-HIRE ASSESSMENTS. Pre-hire assessments are tools that quickly identify the best applicants for specific positions and for your broader company culture. – Business Impact Questions for More Strategic Interviews. . NOT A NEWTON CUSTOMER?

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What Change Agents Value at Work

The Perfect Hire

And that means looking carefully at their competencies, behavioral styles, and values. In our work assessing people for the right job fit, we’ve collected and analyzed extensive data on Fortune 1000 executives across a wide spectrum of industries. And here’s how we arrived at those high-level findings. Power is a close second.

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