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How Personality Assessments Decrease Bias in Hiring

Traitify

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

Plum.io

Often, these soft-skills did not match how they presented themselves in the interview. I realized the importance of using a pre-employment assessment to filter through the applicants. Pre-employment assessments have grown in popularity recently. The filtering is job-related and EEOC compliant.

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Methods & Techniques for Screening Candidates in 2023

Recruiters Lineup

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

Workable

Here’s a brief breakdown of Workable Assessments: the cognitive part consists of four tests measuring different types of mental skills – abstract reasoning, numerical comprehension, verbal comprehension, and attention & focus. Cognitive Assessments. Workplace Personality Assessment.

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The Place for Personality

The Staffing Stream

When the pandemic forced us to transition to a remote work world, it became clear that personality would have a strong influence on how well individuals handed the change. Would a shy person feel a greater sense of security presenting from the comfort of computer during a Zoom call rather than in person?

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Hiring for Soft Skills – The Secret to Success

Hireserve

How to Identify Soft Skills during the Recruitment Process Assessing and identifying soft skills during recruitment is not easy – these are qualities that can be hard to measure as they are generally intangible. Its best to consider these types of skills as not just job-related, but imperative for your new hire to possess.

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Advancing recruitment: The rise of technical assessment software

Devskiller

Recruitment methodologies were primarily rooted in an individual’s gut feeling, their network of personal relationships, and rudimentary appraisal techniques. It was an environment where first impressions were paramount, and one’s ability to articulate and present oneself often held more weight than actual competencies.