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Revamping the Interview Process Means Prioritizing Candidates for Success

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Today’s labor market has been trending positive, with 339,000 jobs added in May – but coming out of the global pandemic, employees are reevaluating their priorities and seeking more fulfillment in their professional and personal lives. It’s also important to ask questions that illuminate soft skills.

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How to Develop a Skills-Based Hiring Strategy

HackerRank

By embracing this new model, you’re not just selecting candidates who can do the job today but those who can grow with your company and adapt to future needs. Go beyond basic job descriptions — engage with the team and the hiring manager to understand what tasks the new hire will be doing and what skills they need to excel in that role.

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Empowering the Next Generation: UKG’s Transformative Approach to Early Career Recruitment with HackerRank

HackerRank

What best practices would you recommend for crafting job descriptions that attract the right candidates and promote diversity and inclusion? When it comes to crafting job descriptions that resonate with candidates and promote diversity and inclusion, there are a few key practices that have proven effective at UKG.

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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. Per Gartner survey , 82% of employees want their employers to see them as individuals.

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What Hiring Managers Need to Know About Recruiting Engineers

Recruiting Daily Advisor

List the Requirements Needed to Get the Job, Not Do the Job. When writing the technical section of a job description, far too many companies fill the technical requirements with a list of every technology the software engineer might work with. Source: Rawpixel.com / shutterstock.

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Hiring Mistakes Cost – 5 Ways to Avoid Them

NPA Worldwide

A recent survey by Robert Half showed that one-third (36%) of 1,400 executives surveyed felt the top factor leading to a failed hire, aside from performance issues, is a poor skills match. 1- Better to evaluate the candidate against what you expect them to accomplish rather than a static job description.

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Candidate Experience: How To Get It Right and Win More Top-Tier Talent

Linkedin Talent Blog

A great candidate experience can help you engage more job seekers and sway your top-choice candidate toward accepting your job offer over another. Candidate experience is how a job seeker perceives a company’s brand throughout the hiring process — from the job description to the interview process to follow-up communications.