Behavioral questions to assess soft skills
I was reading this article on LinkedIn about soft skills and some excellent questions to ask to do a deep dive on assessing soft skills and then I started reflecting.
First off, what are soft skills?
Making unconscious bias conscious as a foundation to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Resistance to change is well documented in organizational development. There are a number of reasons listed below and some thoughts on how to overcome them and encourage people to face up to their biases and make that unconscious bias more conscious.
Decoding team personality profiles
Advances in psychometrics and talent analytics have unlocked new ways to measure team chemistry. Powerful assessments like The Predictive Index measure social traits and cognitive functions across four key dimensions.
Hiring to win! Why behavioral profiling helps.
Using behavioral science to help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be isn’t just smart – it’s almost part of your job description – so use the tops in this blog to stand out from the pack. You can hire smarter, faster, and better for every role you touch – and it starts with behavioral science.
The 3 cornerstones of any job search
I spend way too much time reading blogs and articles on the job search, and recently I’ve spent way too much time writing some of that content myself. And everything seems to assume you just jump right in and off you go.
Gaming the interview – using employers’ biases to your advantage
Femi Otitoju said ”if you have a brain, you have a bias”.
And we have a whole selection of flavours of bias to choose from. This article lists out 50 cognitive biases you can be aware of, but we can settle on around 10-12 as core culprits.
Why are behavioral profiles important in employee selection?
Here at Gateway we use behavioral profiles to complement the skills and experience selection criteria that have been in place since Moses was a little boy. It’s not the resume that you’re looking to show up for work but the whole person so it’s a good idea to understand WHO that person is.
Getting an edge in the video interview – employers would do well to pay attention as well.
So just in case you haven’t heard, there’s this pandemic thing going around and that has, to a very large extent, altered the way that we recruit and select candidates.
Getting an edge in the video interview – employers would do well to pay attention as well.
So just in case you haven’t heard, there’s this pandemic thing going around and that has, to a very large extent, altered the way that we recruit and select candidates.
Structured Interviews
If you’re one of the 26% of companies that, according to a Linkedin study in 2018, doesn’t use structured interviews then read on. And if you’re one of the other 74% that do, give yourself a pat on the back. Oh, and read on so I can feel good about myself writing this.
