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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. It might not come as a surprise to you that low unemployment and a growing skills gap have created a talent deficit. Possible Solution: Hiring Candidates Who are “Work Experience Light”.

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Talent Acquisition

Analytics in HR

What is talent acquisition? The core of talent acquisition is to attract employees to an organization and hire the ones that fit with the organization and role. The talent acquisition strategy should align with the people strategy (or HR strategy). Over time, the talent acquisition function has developed.

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How Assessments Create Successful Manufacturing Hires

TalentCulture

A pre-employment test can accurately evaluate aptitude and personality, to assess a candidate’s real potential. The good news is that there are tests to do the heavy lifting. Aptitude: The Key Differentiator. The key is to recruit for aptitude as well as skill. Technical training — 67 percent lacked.

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Employer Strategies for Successfully Hiring Justice Involved Job Candidates

ExactHire

My gut tells me that many employers are open to the idea of hiring individuals from the justice involved community, but have historically avoided the opportunity for a variety of reasons. Today, employers can’t afford NOT to look at every viable employee population. Employer tax incentives. That changes now.

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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

Quickly, these mid-level candidates are becoming fatigued from outreach, leaving recruiters with open reqs for hundreds of days or more without the available talent to fill the role. With this talent deficit, it’s well overdue that recruiters consider new talent pools like the tech talent just entering the job market.

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5 trends revolutionizing the talent acquisition space

HRExecutive

Talent acquisition is facing new challenges in the age of the Great Resignation as scores of workers leave their jobs. Advertisement As employers step up their hiring efforts, Laurano offered five trends HR leaders need to be aware of in the talent acquisition space. If you have invested in a CRM, this is not a small purchase.

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How can talent teams succeed in this ‘real, pivotal moment’ to deliver?

HRExecutive

As if keeping the talent pipeline healthy wasn’t already enough of a challenge for talent acquisition leaders, doing it during a pandemic has made TA a moving target. For example, he says, he is putting together the concept of a “zero-emissions talent pipeline,” which mimics GM’s strategic objectives for product innovation.