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How to Conduct a Soft Skills Interview in 4 Easy Steps

Talentoday

In this blog article we will take a step-by-step look at how to use soft skills from the very beginning of the employee lifecycle: the interview process. Step 2: Preparation Now that you have determined what the important soft skills are for the position, you need to prepare for the interview.

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

Vervoe

We often hear terms like pre-employment assessment, skill testing and even interviewing used interchangeably. This is why résumés and interviews are inherently poor methods of validating skills. Instead, it’s far more compelling to see how people perform. The opposite is usually true of pre-employment assessment.

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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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Introducing anonymized screening: Encourage inclusivity

Workable

Workable helps companies in 100+ countries create a more inclusive hiring practice with diverse candidate sourcing, anonymized screening and structured interviewing. Stay tuned for more to come in 2021, including customizable post-application surveys, enhanced reporting and native cognitive and personality assessments.

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Blind Hiring: A How-To Guide To Reduce Bias & Increase Diversity

Ideal

To help you achieve similar goals for your recruiting, I’ve created this how-to guide on using blind hiring to reduce bias and increase diversity. White-sounding names on resumes are 50% more likely to get an interview request than identical resumes with black-sounding names. Another common pre-hire test is a personality assessment.

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Time to Get Personal: How to Get the Most Out of A Candidate’s First Interview

Traitify

Fast forward to 2013 and I watch as the same reliance on these intangibles surface in job interviews across around the world. The mere fact that job interviews are difficult to navigate is baffling given modern technology and science. Yet most employers still choose to use one-size-fits-all interview scripts.

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Time to Get Personal: How to Get the Most Out of A Candidate’s First Interview

Traitify

Fast forward to 2013 and I watch as the same reliance on these intangibles surface in job interviews across around the world. The mere fact that job interviews are difficult to navigate is baffling given modern technology and science. Yet most employers still choose to use one-size-fits-all interview scripts.