It’s important to think about your hiring process and if you’ve assessed it recently. Too often we rely just on our gut. We interview a few people and then we all get together and say, “Did we like them and what does our gut say about them?”
Instead of relying on your gut, I urge you to think about how you can make assessments a part of your hiring process. Assessments can take you from the subjective to the objective and help to make the process as concrete and rigorous as possible. There’s a host of different assessments out there that test for personality, cognitive ability and you can even put skill assessments together. These can help convey if the candidate has the skills that are required for the job before you even have them start the job.
Assessment tools give you more power and information, and they allow you to hire more effectively. So if assessments are not currently a part of your hiring process, then it’s time that you explore assessments and what they can do for you and your herd.
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