As we researched along the year, our team came up with some important debatable topics on which some expert opinions were a requisite. The discussion was posted on 6 Social Networking sites and the responses we had were amazing.

The topic stated “Which of the two holds more importance in Recruitment? Skills or Behavior?” LinkedIn alone provided us with more than 300 comments on the topic. Facebook and twitter generated some heavy traffic with interests.

As a result of such an enthusiastic participation by Industry experts in the discussion, we decided not to waste away such valuable comments and convert them into a featured video on our global platform. Read more…

Dear Recruiters and Bloggers,

Thank you for the overwhelming response on our social media discussion, “Which of the two holds more importance for recruiters in pre-employment assessments: Skills Tests or Behavior Tests”.

With more than 250 comments on 10 different social media sites, it has attracted one of the hottest recruitment-related discussions on the internet this month. Read more…

Experts - Performers

Just last week, a friend asked a question about the way I classify employees with respect to what they deliver to their organizations. So I decided to write a post about it. When thinking about the candidates organizations may be interested in hiring, I like to keep things simple and classify them into two categories. Experts or Performers. Yes I know what your immediate reaction will be Hassan, don’t make things so simple because they aren’t. Yes, I agree often they aren’t but trust me guys – at times they are that simple. I like to look at a potential hire with these two lenses because it makes my job easier and simplifies my hiring decision. Read more…

In his interview with Jehan Ara on “In the Line of Wire” Saleem Qureshi, President & COO HireLabs Inc., talks about the need for employment assessment so that people are placed in the right professions, in the right departments and at the right level of competency.

Saleem and his company work mainly with large organizations to ensure that all employees and potential employees are assessed to determine that they are right for the jobs they are being placed in. I asked him if similar assessments could be used to determine which disciplines kids should select when entering university and what kind of professions they were suitable for.

Saleem answers this and many other questions in this episode of ITLoW.

What is HireLabs? According to Saleem, HireLabs is the leading innovator of pre-employment assessment services. Their goal is to streamline and simplify the HR decision-making process to maximize talent alignment while minimizing company costs. HireLabs works in collaboration with data collected from the US Department of Labor and Stanford University to create the next generation in employment assessments. Read more…

How do talent assessment tools help in the selection process?

A competency-based assessment aims to better hiring decisions by moving it away from intuition-led process. Talent assessment tools aim for objectivity than being subjective in method. This process is continuous. And with the number of researchers and psychologists Read more…

A competency-based assessment aims to move hiring decisions away from the classic intuition-led process.

Candidates are not primarily assessed or rated based upon their aspirations, opinions, or similar. Rather, the underlying premise is that we can anticipate how a candidate will behave in a role in the future through an assessment of their behavior in the past.

As a recruiter, you are required to use psychometric testing as some of clients require you to do so.

Now, know the advantages that Read more…

Organizations need more valid employment screening programs that can show a direct impact of

assessment scores on business outcomes. The current economic downturns require a more integrated approach, as organizations try to  identify between mission-critical programs and costly options that end up being merely ‘excursion’ trips.

The use of predictive modeling demands that no shortcuts are taken. It is important to balance expenses with assessment outcomes. ROI needs to specify the type of outcomes that can be termed as critical business drivers.

It is important to expand the scope of assessment

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The mechanics of talent assessments provide organizations with a valid and consistent model that help to save valuable costs & resources by targeting specific internal and external benchmarks that can help organizations improve efficiency in  candidate evaluation without getting side-tracked.

HireLabs recommends setting up the following model as an Read more…