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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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5 Tips for Mitigating Interviewer Bias

Criteria Corp

Hiring diverse teams is crucial for bridging opportunity gaps and building successful companies, yet the process for identifying and hiring diverse top talent is often riddled with biases. Reduce Hiring Bias With Pre-Employment Assessments. So how do you objectively assess if a candidate is right for a role?

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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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Katharine Earnhardt: “Invest in handmade pieces”

Thrive Global

Surrounding yourself with unique items with a story or an experience attached to them fosters a sense of connection between you and the craftsmen who make them, and an appreciation for the craft. It’s these items, stories and experiences together that make a space feel dynamic and fulfilling. Invest in handmade pieces.

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Pazit Perez of ‘I Have A Dream Academy’: “Operate from your vision”

Thrive Global

In this series, called “How To Successfully Ride The Emotional Highs & Lows Of Being An Entrepreneur” we are talking to successful entrepreneurs who can share stories from their experience. In 2014, my career changed when I came into my greatest discovery as an Award-Winning Portrait Photographer. Can you explain what you mean?

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Why Small Businesses Should Require Interview Training

Linkedin Talent Blog

Effective interview training covers ways businesses can assess technical aptitude in roles. What questions should be asked to understand if the person's past experience and performance has prepared them for the role at hand. Assessment. Cultural fit. Image from Death to the Stock Photo.

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4 Reasons Not to Base Hiring on Skills

TalentCulture

The competition for talent isn’t going away. percent in 2014 to 4.2 Skills tests do give a crisp, black-and-white reality as to what a candidate can do the moment they walk in their new employer’s door — such as make spreadsheets or program in Java. You may not be using that same machinery or software next year.