When it comes to investing in hiring software, you may consider value, time-saving, and possibly customisation, to name a few. The reason these are weighed up is usually to calculate ROI, or Return on Investment. This is usually a financial measurement that helps to determine your investment versus profit. Predominantly, ROI focuses on cost, but […]
Why be consistent Consistency throughout the hiring process can save time, make it easier to assess and compare candidates and it can facilitate fair hiring. Without consistency there is not a level playing field on which to assess and compare candidates. During assessments and interviews, candidates may not be given the same information, opportunities or […]
A brief history May 11th, 1997 marked one of the most reverberating pivot points in the advancement of AI and Superintelligence. The victory of IBM’s Deep Blue against the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov was a spectacle that many believed impossible. Kasparov was undisputed, first holding the title at the age of 22; Deep […]
In the midst of a global pandemic, applications like Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become invaluable. They have allowed us to keep in touch, get face-to-face interaction and ensure that work doesn’t stop. But are these video conferencing tools the best option when it comes to hiring? For smaller companies who only need a few […]
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) develops more use cases for businesses, it is increasingly being used in the interviewing and assessment of candidates. It is important to understand and weigh up the pros and cons of any technology before using it, which raises the question as to whether AI will become the future of interviewing and replacing […]
The goal of any recruitment or hiring process should be to hire the best people for the job in the most efficient, accurate and fair way and with new technologies and software emerging, this is becoming easier to do. The companies that are the quickest to implement and adopt these new technologies will have a […]
In hiring there is a big focus on time to hire; it should be as minimal as possible. This can be for financial reasons, speed to offer to secure the best talent or to make the path to hiring or on-boarding as quick and easy as possible. Whilst these are good reasons to reduce time […]
There is more to recruitment than how we attract and sift candidates, but the recent advances in technology and move to a digital approach has focused predominantly on these two areas. Sifting software and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) providers have been two of the main driving forces for innovation in the recruitment and assessment world. […]
Despite the exponential growth in the use of one-way video interviews, the positives do not outweigh the negatives and companies will begin to move away from this approach and will instead use different technology for a digital end to end approach to assessment and recruitment. Video interview providers usually cite time and cost saving as […]
