It’s a challenging time for recruiters - there are simply more jobs on the market than there are candidates, and many of the best workers are already comfortable in another job. If your job application is too boring or difficult, these passive applicants simply won’t apply, and you could miss out on some amazing talent.
Why It's Important to Rank Your Applicants With Pre-Employment Test Results
A Look Into Optimize: Some of Psychology’s Most Predictive Traits
Research has found these traits to be applicable to the majority of job types and industries. As always, we stress the importance of never judging a candidate by one particular trait. Optimize Hire provides one overall score for each candidate and a high score, no matter its makeup, indicates a high likelihood for a productive and helpful employee.
Top 3 Best and Worst Predictors of Job Performance
Optimize Hire pre-employment tests evaluate candidates on traits proven by decades of research to predict success at work. Below, we outline the best and worst predictors of job performance based on the research of the top industrial and organizational psychologists in the world. Sometimes people are surprised by these findings and it’s common for companies to use bad predictors to evaluate candidates. If this is you, consider re-evaluating your process and adopt a strategy to screen candidates based on data-driven solutions.
6 Tips to Improve Your Company’s Interview Process
Interviews are an essential part of any hiring process, and like any major business process they come with their own set of problems. Good interviewers are aware of the biases that are inherent in traditional interviews and look for ways to proactively combat them. We’ve curated this list of tips to help eliminate bias in the hiring process and find the best people for your job.
Why An Unbiased Personality Metric is Essential to Productive Recruiting
When managers conduct interviews and read resumes without a more objective piece of input like a pre-employment test, they’re more likely to choose people who remind them of themselves. When we choose people just like us to fill empty positions, we miss out on huge growth opportunities for our teams and our companies.
5 Ways A Pre-Employment Test Can Help Your Business Grow
A good talent assessment (there are good ones and bad ones - check out our guide) should make your job easier, optimize your applicant’s experience, and streamline your hiring practices. Most importantly, it should help you identify more qualified applicants who will make your organization more successful.
How To Improve Your Hiring Process (In 4 Easy Steps)
Why You Should Be Using A Structured Interview Guide
4 Essential Things to Look for in a Pre-Employment Test
There are a plethora of options for pre-employment testing out there and it seems like they’re all offering you the same thing: employees who are more likely to be successful in the job. However, the accuracy of these tests can be drastically different, so it’s important to know what separates good pre-employment testing from bad pre-employment testing.