Brainfood Live On Air - Ep334 - Interviews Are Not Evaluating the Right Skills

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Brainfood Live On Air - Ep334 - Interviews Are Not Evaluating the Right Skills

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INTERVIEWS AREN'T EVALUATING THE RIGHT SKILLS: INSIGHTS FROM ANALYSING 1,311 INTERVIEW LOOPS


 


What is actually happening at interviews?


 


It's the most critical part of any assessment process yet it is also the one which we know least about, not least because we've never had the means to really study them at scale. That is why this latest research from Harvard Business Review is so significant - across 1300+ organisations, 50+_ organisations and tens of thousands of interviews, researchers using BrightHire proprietary data track what is actually happening in this crucial step of the process.


 


The insight reveals challenges to which we will in recruitment have an urgency in handling.


 


(a) the gap between what JDs communicate to candidates are the critical qualifications for positions vs. what's actually covered in interviews


 


(b) the effectiveness of interviews in the evaluation of skills


 


(c) the extent to which interviews are evaluating for AI skills


 


 


We're doing a Brainfood Live special with BrightHire CEO Ben Sesser and William Leeds, Head of Data Science - we're going through this research with the Harvard Business Review!


 


We are on Thursday 23rd October, 4pm BST / 11am ET - follow the channel here (recommended) and save your spot for this demo by clicking on the green button.


 


Ep334 is sponsored by our friends BrightHire


 


BrightHire, the AI copilot for exceptional hiring used by hundreds of game-changing companies like Canva, Vercel, Multiverse, up to the Fortune 500.

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