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5 Best Practices for Pre-Employment Assessments Hiring Managers Should Be Tracking

ExactHire

Pre-employment assessments are excellent tools that provide a wealth of data, and much needed objectivity, when used correctly. But those same pre-employment tests can perpetuate bias if hiring managers aren’t paying attention to the whole story. And that, of course, includes your subjective gut instinct.

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5 Best Practices for Pre-Employment Assessments Hiring Managers Should Be Tracking

ExactHire

Pre-employment assessments are excellent tools that provide a wealth of data, and much needed objectivity, when used correctly. But those same pre-employment tests can perpetuate bias if hiring managers aren’t paying attention to the whole story. And that, of course, includes your subjective gut instinct.

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Workplace Observations for 2015: The Year of Employee Aptitude

Trish McFarlane

I think 2015 will be the year of focus on employee aptitude. Why aptitude? Well, by definition, aptitude is about capability, talent and readiness and speed in learning. I think we’ll see this become even more common in 2015. Do you have other observations of what 2015 will bring?

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Guide to Hiring Employees in Liberia

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However, navigating the employment landscape in Liberia requires an understanding of its unique legal, cultural, and practical considerations. Legal Requirements for Hiring Employees in Liberia Before hiring employees in Liberia, employers must be aware of the legal framework governing labor relations.

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12 Assessment Tools That Will Help You Hire the Best Candidates Quickly (and Fairly)

Linkedin Talent Blog

Talent acquisition professionals note that conventional interviews often reinforce existing biases, have a limited ability to assess soft skills, and are unreliable. But there’s now a chance to swap the test of wills that interviews have become for an actual test of talent. Besides, they’re often not much fun.

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Resume Screening Is Useless (Here’s What to Do Instead)

6Q

So if the problem is human nature, perhaps AI is the solution? In 2015, Amazon scrapped an AI recruiting tool that they were secretly working on because it was biased against women. A better way is to start the entire hiring process with a short online test. Work-sample tests. It’s human nature.

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Hiring on all Cylinders: Live at HR Tech 2017

Entelo

Mollie Lombardi | co-founder and CEO, Aptitude Research Partners. Prior to Aptitude Research Partners Mollie was Vice President, Workforce Management at Brandon Hall Group and Vice President and Principal Analyst, Human Capital Management at Aberdeen Group. Madeline Laurano | Co-Founder, Aptitude Research Partners.