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How to Tradeoff Potential for Experience and Why You Should. Www.kenexa.com/getattachment/fc497b12-8188-4380-942d-9182f0dfee8d/Valuing-vs-Recognizing-Employees.aspx. Employment Tests Are Becoming Irrelevant for Predicting Job Success. Let’s talk about the future of predicting job success and why the world’s biggest evangelist for pre-hire assessments thinks tests are in danger of becoming extinct (and is OK with it).

There are a number of emerging trends in hiring right now that center around the currency of the new millennium: data. The impact of our ability to collect, organize, and interpret data is rapidly changing all areas of the economy. Should employment be any different? There are three ways in which data is slowly killing the employment test as we know it. The Impact of Publicly Available “Free-range” Data People born in the past decade or so, along with all persons to come, will begin accumulating a personal digital fingerprint that will be associated with them from cradle to the grave.

The ideas behind using publicly available data to predict job performance are gaining big time attention these days as evidenced by these recent Business Insider and New York Times articles. The 17 Things to Think About Before Picking an Applicant Tracking System. You post, you tweet, you activate social media, yet all the work you do to attract talent can go to waste if your applicant tracking system is too burdensome for candidates and your recruiting team. If you choose a strong applicant tracking system, your results will improve, candidates will have a great experience, and hiring managers will see more on-target resumes.

A poor decision will have serious adverse effects costing you unhappy hiring managers, lost candidates, money, time, and frustration. The following is a primer on things to take into consideration when making your decision on an applicant tracking system. It takes time and research, but the payoff will be well worth the effort. Company profile. Making the best decision for an applicant tracking system takes plenty of effort. Image at top from Zoho. Achievers presentations channel. Through the Looking Glass: Hiring Sales People. Improving Teamwork with Team-Match. Skill Tests - Smarterer. How Burberry Manages Talent - Video.