Pre-Employment Testing – Tsk! Missing Not including pre-employment testing in your recruitment process, may result into missing out the best candidates. And, maybe you are spending extra time and money for finding quality candidates! And, on top of that who knows the candidates will be efficient and productive in the long run? For all the doubts mentioned above, one solution –pre-employment testing software.
For all practical purposes, there is no purple squirrel, not in nature and not in the job market. For those who don’t know what purple squirrel is; Purple Squirrel is a term used for an extraordinary candidate, with exactly the right qualifications and experience. It is a metaphor used by recruiters to identify the unrealistic expectations of a client company. So now you must be thinking, “where the hell should I bring purple squirrels from to satisfy the client?” And sometimes, if you think you are successful in finding a purple squirrel, even your purple squirrel can be just another disqualified candidate to the client company. What if I say you can find a purple squirrel? Let me tell you how?
Who said starting a small business was easy? Things are never easy for small business owners. There are many problems that are encountered by these owners throughout the course of managing a business. These include things like hiring the right people, building a brand, and so on. For a business with relatively few employees, adding an HR person or team can seem difficult and sometimes unnecessary. Most of the time, the CEO or the owner is himself the hiring manager. Unlike large businesses which are stuck with policies, procedures, and traditional solutions, small businesses are free to look less at these traditional procedures and build new methods.
Job Description (JD) is an essential step towards attracting the right candidates or I should say, the top candidates. Does your job description stand out to attract top talent? Writing a great job description is a first step towards attracting top talent to join your company. A good job description not only attracts candidates but the right candidates. Writing a great job description is not easy. And no, you just cannot copy paste it from Google! Writing your own and unique job description will effectively communicate your company's requirements and available positions for applicants.
When hiring the best person available for a position, rather than the best person who applies to a job posting, requires different strengths of recruiters and different types of the recruiting process.
What is a Staffing Agency? Staffing agencies are used by organizations to recruit candidates for a wide variety of employment needs. Whenever any vacancy arises, companies send job descriptions to the staffing agencies. The staffing agency needs to find a candidate whose skills match those mentioned in the job description. Once this matching is done the staffing agency needs to thoroughly screen the candidate. Once found suitable the candidate is hired by the staffing agency, not the employer. The salary will be issued by the staffing agency, but the length of employment will be determined by the employer. The jobs offered by the staffing agencies are either temporary positions or permanent positions. In case it is a permanent position the staffing agency works like a recruiter and the employees are then hired by the employer directly.
Search for ‘Soft Skills’ on Google, you will find 2, 58, 00,000 results. Huge database… Isn’t it? What was recapitulated in these searches was “what do recruiters expect from candidates while hiring?” The recruiter is the facilitator between the candidate and his next career move. Although recruiters play their cards close to the chest, definitely there are ways top talent can stand out and be discovered. Now to stand out among all other, a candidate needs to get in front of the recruiter and show him or her why he is the right one for the job. Apart from degree, credentials and technical knowledge, what will make a candidate stand out is his Soft Skills. Soft skills portray how one acts in his life and work. Studies reveal that 75 percent of success depends on people skills (soft skills) and 25 percent on technical knowledge. That does not mean technical knowledge is not important but soft skills defines who you are and how you act. Ironically, soft skills are the hardest skills to develop. So make sure you only hire a candidate after a throrough soft skill assessment using one of the best skills assessment tools.
Choosing between the human interviews or written tests has long been a subject of debate amongst the HR Professionals. In my opinion, both are interrelated and interdependent. It is quite difficult to give preference to one system while putting other on the back because I myself have found both the options suitable in judging men and women of abilities depending on the situation. This piece is an endeavor to give readers an insight on both the methods and readers will decide which one they want to opt. It depends largely upon the Nature of the Job - The decision of whether to take tests or conduct interviews depends solely upon the nature of the job. In case a company tends to hire a grocery clerk, the test may be a feasible option as it is most relevant to the requirements of the job. On the other hand, for some strategic level job i.e. hiring some International Relation officer, companies conduct interviews, as tests are not the right option to test the skill level of such candidates.
The cost of hiring a single candidate is rarely calculated. If organizations study this process deeply they will realize that the costs are fairly steep. Post on job boards Time spent Writing ad copy Completing 1 posting 1 hour 30 minutes $25 $12.5 External cost Cost of job posting Posting to Craigslist Posting to Monster Posting to CareerBuilder - $25 $385 $419 Overall cost For one posting - 1 hour 30 minutes $37.5 to $456.50 Depends on number of posting to different job portals Review your applicants
Online recruitment assessment, Remote recruitment assessment, Campus Hiring 2.0 are the buzzwords in the recruitment space today. Recruitment assessment is an important as well as a time consuming process to validate candidate skills. Inclusion of right technology can help to automate the recruitment assessment process and make it efficient.
Introduction This document explains the hardware, software and network specifications to conduct online test using imocha test platform. Hardware (Machine) Specification The candidate’s machine should contain following specification for smooth experience of test. CPU: Intel Duel Core 2.0 GHz/ equivalent or above RAM: Minimum 2 GB Screen Resolution: Minimum 1024 x 768 (1366 x 768 Recommended) Webcam Resolution: Minimum 1.0 MP (If the test is having Image Proctoring enabled)
