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Benefits and Types of Psychometric Tests in Recruitment

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Instead of relying upon a hiring manager’s subjective assessment of a candidate’s qualifications, which can be fallible, the test provides an objective, numeric score that’s free of personal bias. Equalized comparison When you judge candidates based on your impression of them, it can be hard to compare them fairly against one another.

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Sales Associate Skills: What They Are and How to Test Them

The Hire Talent

Emotional Intelligence. While it is difficult to properly convey empathy and manage other peoples’ emotions in online communications, it is not impossible. Luckily, psychology and human resources have plenty of instruments to assess emotional intelligence objectively, just as they do with cognitive intelligence.

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You Hate Personality Tests, But Do They Work?

Staffing Talk

This is what personality testing is like. The use of personality assessments in the workplace is as divisive an issue as they come. This week I talked with a dozen or so staffing business bigwigs who have used personality assessments for hiring their own staff, candidates for clients, and sometimes both.

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9 Leadership Assessment Tools for Recruiters and CEOs

The Hire Talent

The DiSC Personality Test. We had discussed the DiSC Personality Inventory when we highlighted recruiting the world’s most popular personality assessments. As we said then, this personality test works less as a job performance predictor and more as an overall assessment of an individual’s personality style.

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7 Workplace Personality Tests That Can Help Improve Your Team

Linkedin Talent Blog

Personality test results often reveal new personal insights to employees, helping them think differently about their emotional intelligence, strengths, weaknesses, and ambitions. Are there any drawbacks to using workplace personality tests? It’s more general in comparison to many others listed here.