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Forget Interview Questions: 4 Fresh Tactics to Screen Candidates for Emotional Intelligence

Linkedin Talent Blog

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a hot topic right now. So hot that it caused a lot of controversy on ABC’s The Bachelor, where one contestant told another that she “lacked the emotional intelligence” to be with this season’s bachelor. And, emotional intelligence falls into that category.

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Benefits and Types of Psychometric Tests in Recruitment

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

A psychometric test is a standardized assessment designed to measure different aspects of a person’s mind: their knowledge, cognitive abilities, personality traits, and more. Psychometric testing is useful during the screening phase to ensure that only qualified candidates move on to the interview round.

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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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How to conduct a post-personality assessment interview

Workable

Personality assessments, in particular, should be conducted with care. To ensure a fair and equitable analysis, follow up with a post-personality assessment interview. With all those factors in play, here’s how you can use post-personality test questions to conduct a fair and equitable interview process.

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Assessing Personality Types When Hiring – Astrology or Science?

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The data can favor the latter, with 75% of large companies saying they use personality assessments to screen their applicants. And, if that’s not enough, 2016 research shows a combination of cognitive ability and personality tests predicted role performance with 78% accuracy. Let’s look at each one in turn.

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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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You Have Low Employee Engagement Scores – What Do You Do to Improve It?

Achievers - Recruiting

Engaged workers also report better health outcomes.”. Here are the results from a Gallup report on a random sampling of 30,628 full and part-time U.S. employees: 34 percent of American workers are engaged at work (tying its highest level since Gallup began reporting the national figure in 2000).