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Talent Assessment Tools: Hire Effectively

mazeAdapted from How to Use Assessments To Hire Effectively by Dana Borowka.
Although there are around 2,500 assessments and tests available or in active use, ranging from the cognitive to the personality types and onwards to skills and other abilities, their true impact has not been so much understood.

This is mainly because of a lack of basic foundations in the subject, and a lack of exposure to the scope of employee assessment programs.

But how do you choose the most beneficial assessments?

Add to that,  the lack of regulation in this sector has only added to the confusion. Only organizations that have keep official departments that are focused to human capital development can value such a critical tool in the hiring process.

The SMEs and the smaller private firms lack the necessary insight into what could possibly end up saving them up to 40% in Read more…

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Burden Of Cost on Talent: Should we spend money on assessments?

BurdenOfCostOnTalent_A question that many recruiters and employers ask themselves many times a year! This query becomes more related when there are so many people in line and one is convinced not to waste money on assessments as “we have enough candidates”. However, number of people should not change the situation for employers as you don’t want mere people, you want talent, right?

Here’s what I think.

Given the war for talent and the limited Read more…

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