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Benefits and Types of Psychometric Tests in Recruitment

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Psychometric tests may be given to assess a candidate on the required skills, to gauge their likely behavior in various scenarios, to understand their reasoning, and to analyze their potential for success. Psychometric testing is useful during the screening phase to ensure that only qualified candidates move on to the interview round.

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Effective Methods of Recruitment and Selection for Hiring Top Talent

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

External recruiting, on the other hand, is more time-consuming because it requires you to source, screen, and interview multiple people, then complete negotiations and onboarding once you’ve selected a candidate. Recruiting agencies Third-party recruiters are experts in sourcing and screening candidates. Methods of Selection 1.

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

The Hire Talent

Depending on the job description and the job candidate profile, you can use inventories and test batteries to assess other cognitive skills. However, if you want to screen candidates and make sure future sales associates will become future rock stars at their job, you can assess their computer literacy skills.

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8 Modern Personality Assessment Tools for Your Team

Recruiting Daily Advisor

HR professionals may depend on personality assessments for training and onboarding. The DISC assessment is not norm-referenced. However, this personality assessment is not appropriate for most businesses, as it covers too many areas unrelated to most work responsibilities. Source: docstockmedia / shutterstock.

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Do you Really Know Who You’re Interviewing?

Talentoday

One way is to use a screening company like HireArt — they conduct the first round of video interviews over Skype for you. To truly understand whom you’re interviewing you need to introduce objective, personality assessment data into your evaluation. Candidate vs. Candidate comparisons. Candidate vs. Company comparison.

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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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Should psychometric assessments be used for hiring?

Vervoe

A psychometric test, when applied in a recruitment context, aims to provide an objective, unbiased and standardized assessment of a candidate’s personality, behaviours, motivation, career interests, competencies and intellectual abilities. It’s also easy to glaze over the context in which personality assessments are employed.