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Recruiters: Use Cognitive Aptitude Tests to Expand Your Candidate Pipeline

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Criteria Corp , a leading provider of pre-employment testing services. In the latest Manpower Group Talent Shortage Survey, more that 40 percent of global employers reported facing talent shortages. Enjoy the article!)

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How Assessments Create Successful Manufacturing Hires

TalentCulture

Want to make the right manufacturing hires? A 2016 MRI survey on recruiting found that 80 percent of all hires are mistakes that cost companies time and money. A pre-employment test can accurately evaluate aptitude and personality, to assess a candidate’s real potential. Aptitude: The Key Differentiator.

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Get the most out of pre-employment assessment tests

Business Management Daily

Recruiting and onboarding a new hire is a time-consuming and costly endeavor, so you want to make sure you’re picking a great match who will excel in the role. Making a bad hire often means repeating the process just a few months later while suffering lost productivity. But do these tests actually help you choose the right candidate?

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Top Cognitive Assessment Tools

TalenX

Success is a game of chance that many companies take when hiring a new employee for a position. There is no secret tool that can help an organization hire the right person every time, but there are some tools that can help you hit the bullseye more often. Best Cognitive Assessment Tools. Introduction.

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We Are Young: Tactics for Hiring Junior Developers

Speaker: Katrina Kibben, Founder and Principal Consultant of Three Ears Media, and Katherine Linchey, Relationship Manager at Codility

Pat Benatar left out a battlefield when she sang about love: the tech hiring battlefield. Historically, recruiters have avoided recent grads and junior talent because they didn’t have the tools or tactics to measure a candidate on aptitude or even know where to find them in the first place outside of college job fairs. You'll learn.:

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Pre-employment personality test options and considerations

Business Management Daily

Hiring for fit is a practical approach for many employers. One increasingly popular option for finding the right fit is to incorporate hiring tests into the recruitment process. One increasingly popular option for finding the right fit is to incorporate hiring tests into the recruitment process.

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Can Employee Skills Assessments Really Help Avoid a Mis-Hire?

AvilarHR

Recruiting and hiring new employees is complex and making a bad hire can be a costly mistake. Can employee skills assessments really help avoid a mis-hire? When recruiting and hiring new employees, your primary goal is to find the best talent available for the job. What is a Skills Assessment?