Screening & Assessment Archives

Reference Checking – Simple Steps For Making Yours Better (The complete guide to accurate reference checking)

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If you can’t afford to hire a single candidate who has lied about their experience or credentials, you must first realize that the standard reference-checking process designed to catch those resume lies ranks painfully low (#11) in predicting whether a candidate will perform well on the job. Unfortunately, your current …

The World’s Best Guide… For Adding Powerful Resume Content (Ensuring that your resume will stand out in an AI world)

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Move past keywords and add powerful content that both AI bots and recruiters will notice and remember. Start By Realizing That… AI Is Dramatically Changing Resume Screening Yes, job search has long been intensely competitive because an applicant may compete against 250 other resumes. However, having your resume successfully pass …

Instantly Improve Hiring Results Using “Solve This Problem” Interview Questions (The most impactful interview question)

Photo: In a modern, well-lit office room with large windows and cityscape views, a Caucasian female interviewer points to a whiteboard containing a complex problem statement. Opposite her, a Middle Eastern male interviewee is actively brainstorming, pen in hand, ready to jot down his solutions on a notepad.

As a hiring guru, I guarantee that this interview question will instantly raise your hiring results. Yes, having a candidate answer a “solve this problem” interview question may be the most impactful interview question of all. This may seem too good to be true, but trust me on this one. …

A Glimpse Into The Future – Automated Remote Video Interviews And Its Many Benefits
(Understanding asynchronous interviews)

Improve your hiring results and save hours of valuable manager time with automated video interviews. This Emerging Interview Tool Is Right For Today’s Problems To start off, before you even begin thinking negatively about automating anything in HR. Realize that in today’s highly competitive world of recruiting. It is essential …

The 5 Worst Candidate Assessment Tools… And How They Cause The Loss Of Top Applicants

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You may lose up to 40% of your top candidates when you use flawed candidate assessment tools. You might be surprised to learn that many managers worldwide routinely use assessment approaches that, even on the surface, appear silly. For example, Japanese hiring managers have been known to screen out candidates …

Professional Conversations Reduce The Stress Inherent In Traditional Interviews
(And that will improve recruiting results)

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93% of candidates report that their anxiety levels increased because of their fear of interviews. And 45% of jobseekers report that they have rejected jobs after a negative interview experience. Fortunately, you can dramatically bring those ugly numbers down when recruiting for a critical job. Replace your standard interview with …

Stop Hiring Lazy Girls*, Quiet Quitters, And Underperformers – Here’s How

70% of employees withhold their best performance, and half of those sleepwalk through each workday (Gallup research). “It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” Yes, this now-famous Kim Kardashian quote has recently been supported by Gallup research that focused on underperforming employees. So if your business situation requires …

The Many Perils Of Accepting Certifications As Qualifications (Problems with accepting certifications instead of college degrees during hiring)

Only 5% of surveyed recruiters say that certifications can replace college degrees in all jobs. And only 48 % agree that they can replace college degrees in at least some jobs. The latest disruption recruiting leaders now face is the growing emphasis on certifications over college degrees. A recent survey …

Hiring’s Hidden Problem – Your Resume Screeners Are “Hunting For Weaknesses” (Instead of focusing on applicants whose strengths far outweigh their flaws)

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Not seeing enough strong applicants? Blame screeners that are overly focused on finding weaknesses. Yes, the #1 screening error in most organizations occurs when your screeners are exclusively focused on “screening out” all resumes that contain even a single weakness or flaw. During their “hunt for weaknesses,” these screeners purposely …

Hire Faster – By Reducing “Quickly-Ended” Initial Interviews (A small fixable problem with significant negative impacts)

A quickly-ended interview is when after 1-2 unsatisfactory candidate answers, you just want to end it. And afterward, frustrated hiring managers will openly wonder why this clearly flawed candidate was ever scheduled for an interview. These problematic interviews are labeled as “quickly-ended” because, during the first few minutes, they were …