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Hiring for Soft Skills – The Secret to Success

Hireserve

Interpersonal skills and people skills are harder to train for. Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence encompasses self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, and social skills. These so-called hard skills are extremely valuable, but they can also be learned.

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Benefits and Types of Psychometric Tests in Recruitment

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Tailored training and development Psychometric tests pinpoint a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses, which is useful in hiring. Beyond that, however, they can help you identify employee-specific training needs and design customized development plans that help boost staff performance and engagement.

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

The Hire Talent

Hard skills in sales include technical, formal, academic skills learned by employees in educational environments, workplaces, training courses, workshops, seminars, etc. What are the Soft Skills in Sales that We Assess? After all, they are responsible for training and coaching their sales teams. Emotional Intelligence.

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The Most In-Demand Hard and Soft Skills of 2020

Linkedin Talent Blog

5 is a newcomer, emotional intelligence, a skill important in just about every role. In looking for soft skills, companies are focusing on candidates with emotional intelligence. New to the list this year, emotional intelligence has different meanings to different people. But slipping in at No.

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A Complete Guide to Using Psychometric Tests in Recruitment

Hundred5

For example, you can identify someone’s: Emotional intelligence Strategic thinking skills Situational judgment and adaptability Communication skills Self-awareness Empathy Relationship management Top tip: Not hiring right now? Additionally, having trained professionals review the results helps with accuracy.

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Psychometric Testing vs Job Simulations

Vervoe

While psychometric testing provides useful baseline data that can help hiring decisions, results can be misinterpreted or read out of context — particularly when assessed by hiring managers or recruiters who don’t have the training to interpret the data and an overreliance on personality testing.

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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. Additionally, many post-personality test questions will be customizable based on individual test results and will differ from one candidate to the next.