Traditional interviews have limited ability to assess soft skills and weaknesses of the candidate, instead try the following five innovations to get a greater understanding of your prospective employee… Soft skills assessment measure traits like teamwork and give a more holistic picture of candidates. Click here for further insight into which soft skills you should…
Soft skills are essential for any new recruit to fit in to your corporate culture and become a productive employee, it also reflects well on the company’s hiring process, but how to measure them? First, a definition: Soft skills, aka employability skills, are a group of essential abilities that involve the development of a knowledge…
If you really want to find out more about a candidate’s personality and assess their skills and cultural fit, then why not include a few questions from the list below… What would the story of your life be called? A five year old asks you if Santa Claus is real… what do you tell them?…
Leadership You need to display how you lead and develop individuals who think and act differently together as a unified team. Make your examples come to life; talk to your prospective employer about specific individuals whose careers you have helped and the ways in which you have assisted their development. Be clear on the KPIs…
When preparing to interview an Engineer it’s important that you include a range of questions that test the candidate’s technological and engineering expertise. In addition to engineering-specific questions, you’ll want to find out more about their interpersonal communication skills, team-work and cultural fit. Here’s five questions to get you started… 1. What’s the most challenging…
So, you’re at the interview stage, this means you’re 50% closer to securing your dream job – here’s some top tips to help you over the finish line. From pre-interview to the after-interview closing email, we’ve got you covered! For a selection of questions YOU could be expected to answer at your next interview, head…
With hundreds of applicants screened on a daily basis recruiters are always on the lookout for candidates who will be the perfect fit for the job. Here are five tips for recruiters to spot the right candidate in a crowded market… Find this article useful? Then check out What to look out for when shortlisting candidates…
Lights! Camera! Questions! Welcome to quite possibly the world’s most eccentric job interview ever. In what can be likened to a David Blaine stunt, one recruiter ramped up the pressure on candidates by interviewing prospective new employees in a glass box in the middle of the Rockefeller Center, New York. Head of Executive Search firm…
Exit interviews – is there any point to them? When done correctly there certainly is. When an employee leaves a company, the workforce are often left asking ‘Why did they leave?’ A successful exit interview should answer this question by giving the employee a chance to express their parting thoughts about the company; good and…
1) You were the most organised in class You colour coded your homework and always had your after-school activities written in your diary – weeks ahead! Your room was tidy(ish) and you never owned an odd pair of socks. Nowadays the sheets you live for are of the Google variety and you’re top of the…