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Best Ways To Assess a Product Manager’s Skills When Hiring

Vervoe

Professionals in this role combine technical skills with emotional intelligence; analytical skills with strong communication; and the ability to manage stakeholders with product-specific hard skills. A skills assessment is a great way to screen candidates early in the hiring process. Ask behavioral interview questions.

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How to hire (great) software engineers

Devskiller

Emotional intelligence. Although this might seem as another buzzword, emotional intelligence gains more importance in every organization day by day. It stands for being able to manage your own and other people’s emotions. Traditionally, there are two ways to screen technical skills.

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18 Great Questions to Ask in a Peer Interview

Hundred5

Let’s dive in and see what questions interviewers can ask to really get to know the candidate and level up the hiring process. TL;DR — Key takeaways Peer interviews are a screening tool that helps candidates and their future peers establish whether they’ll work well together (before making a job offer.)

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Effectively Screening for Soft Skills During the Hiring Process

Recruiting Daily

Screening for soft skills during the hiring process can be a challenge. Joann John Specialist – Pilot Recruitment and Development Utilize Behavioral Interview Questions One effective strategy for evaluating soft skills during the hiring process is the use of behavioral interview questions.

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The Most Popular Interview Questions to Reveal Key Soft Skills

Linkedin Talent Blog

Over 60% of hiring managers agree that screening for soft skills is tough. In fact, figuring out if the candidate has the qualities you are looking for is often the most difficult part of the interview process. That’s where behavioral interview questions can help. How did you react? What did you learn?

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How to Use Personality Tests for Hiring (The Right Way) 

Hundred5

Because personality tests draw inconclusive results and are easy to fake, it’s best to use them in combination with soft skills assessments , technical skills assessments, cognitive ability tests , and behavioral interviewing. Often, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

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10 Sales Interview Questions + Evaluation Tips to Hire Sales Stars

The Hire Talent

From displaying certain technical skills to acing behavioral interviews, your candidates need to shine bright on all aspects. However, a sales interview is probably the best context for hiring managers to understand whether they selected and screened the best candidates. Finding sales superstars is not an easy feat.