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Why Empathy, Not Dollars, Is Key to Candidate Experience

SmartRecruiters

Couple that with the fact that 92 percent of the employees surveyed who believe that empathy is undervalued, and it seems that today’s workplaces need a holistic reboot. Each year, Optimizely conducts surveys to evaluate its success in building relationships and offering a positive candidate experience.

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Workable Assessments: The science behind it all

Workable

Since you’re digitally transforming your entire recruitment process, it makes sense that you can and should digitize your assessments as well. Workable’s cognitive and personality assessments are specifically designed to fit in seamlessly within that environment to ensure you make the right hire for your business.

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Playing the Long-Term Game of Measuring and Assessing Quality of Hires

Recruiting Daily

Onboarding Survey: Evaluates if a new hire has gained the needed skills for their role. Hiring Manager Satisfaction Survey: Evaluates if a hiring manager feels the new candidate is appropriate for their role. 360-Degree Feedback: Evaluates gaps in a person’s perception of themselves.

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Job Simulation vs Job Skills Assessment Test

Vervoe

What should a job skills assessment test cover While a technical skills test can cover task-related assessments such as coding, copywriting, or sales, some pre-employment assessments integrate the less tangible capabilities – things like teamwork and leadership. In the world of recruitment, every “court” is different.

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How to fix your candidate experience strategy

Workable

23, 2020, Workable co-hosted a webinar with HackerRank , titled What’s Wrong with your Candidate Experience (and How to Fix it), to shed some light on common pain points in candidate experience troubles. We’ve pulled together their most powerful points and practices they use to improve their candidate experience strategy.

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Why Shell Pushes Hard on Soft Skills — and How It’s Assessing Them

Linkedin Talent Blog

Nearly all (91%) of the talent professionals surveyed for LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2019 report said that soft skills are very important to the future of recruiting, yet more than half (57%) also said they struggle to assess them accurately. And consider using a personality assessment.

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The Complete Guide to Skill Testing

Vervoe

Other types of job-readiness evaluations deploy validated psychometric assessments to identify those in-demand soft skills : things like motivation, conscientiousness, resilience, and emotional intelligence. These qualities are sought after by executives at more than 900 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal survey of executives.