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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.

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Workplace Observations for 2015: The Year of Employee Aptitude

Trish McFarlane

On this final day of 2014, I’m making some observations about the workplace for the coming year. 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. Why observations and not predictions?

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8 Enterprise Recruitment Software Vendors You Should Know About in 2019

Digital HR Tech

Many smart brains from tech hubs around the world are working tirelessly to build software that helps us overcome the challenges we face on a daily basis. The only problem is that the people this software is built for, a.k.a. So, how are you going to keep track of 20 new tech solutions on a weekly basis?! Every week!

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5 Tips for Mitigating Interviewer Bias

Criteria Corp

In 2014, Intel attempted to reduce in-group favoritism by requiring that at least two members of underrepresented communities be present in their hiring panels. Reduce Hiring Bias With Pre-Employment Assessments. So how do you objectively assess if a candidate is right for a role? The result? in just two years.

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How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Drive Employee Engagement

Achievers

Self-awareness, social aptitude and the drive to deliver; emotional and social intelligence gets hard results. It turns out that team members who scored higher on the ECI, a test of emotional and social competencies, were most likely to emerge as the natural leaders.” Leigh joined the Achievers Professional Services team in June 2014.

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Hiring for a Small Business? 5 Practices You Need to Know

Spark Hire

In fact, according to the 2014 Training Industry Report from Training Magazine, small businesses fork over about $1,200 per new employee. Video interviewing is a practical and affordable solution to this dilemma. Aptitude in a particular area? Is it a certain personality trait?

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Beyond the Paycheck: What Does Top Talent Really Want?

Namely

When employers want the best, they simply have to think of talent like a competition. The best candidates can get the best packages, the employer gets the best candidates – great! However, it’s a sticking plaster solution, i.e. not sustainable. The global IT industry was valued at $3.6 This sounds pretty sensible.