Managers are Busy People

If you’re a busy manager, finding that one reliable, successful candidate out of an ocean of applications can seem harder than picking a good stock sometimes.

Crowd-sourcing and the immense popularity of online recruiting have made recruiting into one of management’s biggest headaches. The pressure on human resources managers, where the final decision usually rests, can be immense.

Use Assessment Tools

Fortunately, you don’t have to do it alone, and you don’t have to waste your valuable time sifting through piles of resumes and cover letters.

Assessment tools, applied properly, can separate the wheat from the chaff, narrowing your stack to a short list of highly qualified candidates and giving you valuable new insight into the pool of applicants  before you’ve scheduled a single interview.

Developed by sociologists, psychologists, business professionals and, yes, hiring managers, these assessments all attempt to figure out why it’s so hard to find good help these days. The secret is in finding the right one for your needs.

Personality inventories, career profiles and skill assessments have all become popular tools for recruiters in recent years – each examining different aspects of a candidate’s qualifications and summarising their conclusions in a different manner.

Suitability Testing

The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Inventory) and DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness) tool are two examples of tests developed by psychological theorists that became powerful standardized recruiting tools in the hands of hiring managers. They allow managers to easily identify the characteristics that make success likely and those traits that may “red flag” a job candidate, for better or for worse.

Next - Time is Money