Evaluating Candidates
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Summary. To test a candidate’s Excel skills, send them a skills assessment customized to the responsibilities of the particular role you’re filling. This assessment can be homemade, or you can have a professional one made specifically for your position’s needs. For job seekers, it’s difficult to accurately represent their Excel skills on a resume. As […]
How To Test A Candidate’s Excel Skills
Summary. To test a candidate’s Excel skills, send them a skills assessment customized to the responsibilities of the particular role you’re filling. This assessment can be homemade, or you can have a professional one made specifically for your position’s needs. For job seekers, it’s difficult to accurately represent their Excel skills on a resume. As […]
How To Evaluate Job Candidates (Before And After And Interview)
Summary. To effectively evaluate candidates, set up a system of standards to add objectivity. Keep these standards in mind while you pre-screen, screen, and interview potential hires. Be aware of your biases and work with others to go over your initial observations. If you want your hiring process to be successful, you need to evaluate […]
5 Facts Employers Need to Know About Psychometric Testing
While carefully crafted interview questions certainly play a role in candidate selection, more and more companies are adding psychometric testing to their assessment processes.
Interview Scoring And Candidate Evaluation [Employer Guide]
Summary. Scoring candidates in interviews keeps interviews focused, allows interviewers to easily compare notes with the rest of the hiring team, and streamlines the overall decision-making process. To score candidates, you just need to create a simple rating scale for interviewers to use as they ask questions. Interviews are great ways to learn about job […]
How To Conduct And Review Pre-Employment Tests
Resumes, cover letters, and interviews are all good ways to learn about job candidates, but you can only tell so much about a potential employee without seeing them in action. To solve this problem, many hiring managers administer pre-employment tests to their job applicants. In this article, we’ll explain how to conduct and review pre-employment […]
How To Review Resumes [Employer Guide]
Reviewing applicant resumes may sound simple enough, but it can quickly become overwhelming once you get into it. In this article, we’ll explain how to review resumes, why you should review resumes and information to help you decide whether or not you want to use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to review your resumes. Key […]
Evaluating Candidates Highlighted Articles
How To Review Resumes [Employer Guide]
Reviewing applicant resumes may sound simple enough, but it can quickly become overwhelming once you get into it. In this article, we’ll explain how to review resumes, why you should review resumes and information to help you decide whether or not you want to use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to review your resumes. Key […]
Psych Testing: The Pros and Cons
Finding the right candidate for a job can be a difficult task. Not only does it take a lot of effort to sort through applications to find the best candidates, but it also takes effort to figure out if a candidate is really as qualified as they say they are. To help with this, many […]
What Are Applicant Tracking Systems?
Consider this statistic from Glassdoor, on average; each corporate job opening gets 250 resumes. That’s for one job. Can you imagine the amount of work you’re tasking your HR department with as they wade through the resumes and select candidates to interview? There’s an easier way, and it’s done through Applicant tracking systems. Read on […]
11 Innovative Employment Screening Techniques
If you’re really going to find the right person for the role, you need to change up your hiring techniques. We’ve pulled together 11 examples of innovative hiring techniques that you can employ in your next hire to cut through the façade and find the real skills and culture fit you need.
6 Ways to Conduct a Backdoor Reference Check
With the advent of social media and web footprints, it’s now easier than ever to get an idea of the real candidate behind their resume.
How to Hire a Sales Representative
Hiring a capable sales person is not a walk in the park. Hopefully these 7 recruiting tips will help you identify the perfect sales person for your team.
7 Ways to Efficiently Assess Potential Employees
Deciding which job candidate is the best fit for the position is a difficult process. It’s also a high-stakes decision, as a bad hire can cost a company tens of thousands of dollars. While there is no way to guarantee a good hire every time, implementing these seven ways to efficiently assess potential employees can […]
11 Ways To Ensure You Hire The Best Candidate
Here are 8 ways you can improve your recruitment process and hire the best candidate every time. The right candidate is definitely out there.
Why it’s Essential to Assess Software Skills During the Hiring Process
At what point during the recruitment process should you conduct a skills assessment of a potential new hire? Here are some great suggestions.
7 Characteristics of Résumes Bound for Instant Rejection
Here are 7 application and résume atrocities that should prompt you to instantly reject a candidate.
5 Tips to Ensure You Evaluate Candidates Consistently
It is important to observe and maintain consistent standards whenever you interview and evaluate candidates regardless of the job in question.
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