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How Personality Assessments Decrease Bias in Hiring

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Hiring the best candidate can be tricky and employers have to decide which are the best tools, such as interviews and personality assessments, for making their decision. In these cases in particular it is easy to see how a personality assessment might be used to help alleviate certain biases that can be present in interviews.

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Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students

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The Match Score helps identify how well of a fit they would be in a role, based on their assessment. For example, a student could be a 98 match for a data analyst but only a 43 match for an environmental officer role. The post Best Practices: Using a Personality Assessment to Place Co-op Students appeared first on Plum Blog.

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Methods & Techniques for Screening Candidates in 2023

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This technique can be particularly useful for assessing technical skills, as it provides a more practical and interactive way to evaluate candidates. Personality Assessments Personality assessments have been used in recruitment for many years, but they have evolved to become more sophisticated and accurate.

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Introducing Workable Assessments: Make data-driven hiring decisions

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For example, software engineers and researchers often need to think abstractly and out-of-the-box to recognize patterns and resolve problems in a resourceful way. Numerical comprehension: This assesses how candidates handle and analyze numerical data in order to reach appropriate decisions. Workplace Personality Assessment.

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How to conduct a post-personality assessment interview

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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.

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Hiring for Soft Skills – The Secret to Success

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In this article, we will explore the concept of soft skills, provide examples of essential soft skills, and offer guidance to recruiters on how to identify these skills during the recruitment process. Examples of Essential Soft Skills As we have discussed, soft skills are in-demand for most employers. What are Soft Skills?

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Pre-employment assessment, skill testing and interviewing: what’s the difference?

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Dr. Hamilton gives the simplest of examples: “if someone is going to have to weld metal, you want see them weld metal”. Let’s take a writing test as an example. To use Dr. Hamilton’s welding example, either someone knows how to weld metal or they don’t. It can be a simple task, a range of complex tasks or demonstrable knowledge.