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Structured interview in sales recruitment

Why Structured Interviews are Important in Sales Recruitment

23 February 2024

3 mins

Building high-performing sales teams is a critical task for any sales leader. The success of a business often depends on the effectiveness of its sales team in engaging with customers, understanding their needs, and closing deals. With such high stakes, hiring the right sales professionals is important.

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Important Strategies for Fostering Strong Employee Relations

9 December 2024

6 mins

Strong employee relations are vital for any organisation aiming to achieve long-term success. This article delves into practical strategies to cultivate trust, communication, and inclusivity in the workplace. Explore real-world examples, learn how to resolve conflicts, and discover ways to foster engagement and collaboration. With actionable insights, businesses can create a culture where employees feel valued and supported, driving higher productivity and retention.

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Ace Your Interviews: Must-Ask Questions for Successful Hiring

2 December 2024

6 mins

Interviewing is a foundation of successful hiring, but asking the right questions can be challenging. This guide explores essential interview questions designed to uncover candidates' skills, problem-solving abilities, and cultural alignment. From mastering the "Tell Me About Yourself" question to leveraging the STAR framework, we provide actionable insights to streamline your hiring process. Whether you're evaluating communication skills or assessing creativity, these strategies will help you identify top talent and build a strong, cohesive team.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Candidate Screening

25 November 2024

8 mins

Effective candidate screening is the cornerstone of successful recruitment. This article highlights the importance of a structured screening process and provides an 8-step guide to help organizations identify top talent, assess essential skills, and ensure cultural compatibility. By refining your approach, you can avoid costly hiring mistakes, save resources, and build a cohesive team that thrives. Whether you're a seasoned recruiter or new to the hiring process, these actionable insights will elevate your recruitment game.

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Understanding acquired and innate personality traits for effective hiring

Acquired vs. Innate Personality Traits: A Guide to Better Hiring

20 November 2024

8 mins

Effective hiring goes beyond skills—understanding personality traits is key. This article explores the distinction between innate and acquired traits, their role in hiring, and how tools like Pera enable data-driven decisions. Learn how to align skills, culture, and character for a successful, cohesive workforce

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Exploring the Pros and Cons of Internal Recruitment

6 November 2024

8 mins

Internal recruitment is a strategy that involves filling open positions within a company by hiring existing employees rather than seeking external candidates. This approach can offer significant benefits, including improved employee morale, lower recruitment costs, and shorter onboarding times. However, it may also come with drawbacks, such as limited diversity, potential favouritism, and the risk of creating skill gaps elsewhere in the organization. This article dives into the advantages and disadvantages of internal recruitment, offering insights for companies weighing their hiring strategies.

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Employee Turnover Rate: How to Calculate and Understand It

30 October 2024

8 mins

Understanding employee turnover rate is essential for any organization looking to retain top talent and optimize team stability. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to calculating turnover rates, explains the different types of turnover, and offers insights into interpreting these rates to inform HR strategy. Learn how to benchmark your turnover rate against industry standards and discover strategies to address and reduce unwanted turnover effectively.

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There is No Talent Shortage - You're Just Looking in the Wrong Place

21 October 2024

6 mins

The ongoing talent shortage, which has intensified since the pandemic, is prompting companies to rethink their hiring strategies. Traditional methods that prioritize education and work experience often restrict the candidate pool, making it even more difficult to fill crucial roles. To address this challenge, Pera conducted an in-depth study comparing the outcomes of candidate selection based on competencies versus conventional CV metrics. By analyzing data from nearly 3,500 candidates applying for a hypothetical position, the research uncovered significant differences in hiring outcomes when competency-based approaches were prioritized. The findings suggest that shifting the focus to a candidate’s skills and capabilities can result in more effective hiring decisions and help companies overcome the growing talent gap. This report offers valuable insights for HR professionals looking to adapt their recruitment processes to the demands of today’s labor market.

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Why Natural Language Processing is the best solution

Why Natural Language Processing is the best solution

27 May 2024

4 mins

Welcome to the world of "Natural Language Processing" (NLP). It's "Natural Language" because the language is produced by humans. And we "Process" the language through a system, usually via software, to produce some output. In the case of Pera our NLP systems output predictions of a candidate's competencies, which in turn can be used to predict how well a candidate fits for a particular job.

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Structured interview in sales recruitment

Why Structured Interviews are Important in Sales Recruitment

23 February 2024

3 mins

Building high-performing sales teams is a critical task for any sales leader. The success of a business often depends on the effectiveness of its sales team in engaging with customers, understanding their needs, and closing deals. With such high stakes, hiring the right sales professionals is important.

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Top 5 Trends in Recruitment for 2024

1 December 2023

4 mins

As we approach the year 2024, workplaces are experiencing changes. The job market is improving and businesses are getting back on track with their growth. Employers are feeling more confident and are ready to recruit new talent to make their companies better. To ensure that your business is successful in 2024, it's important to plan your hiring strategy now. Here are the top five trends in recruitment that are expected to take place in 2024.

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A.I. Eats Bias for Breakfast

3 October 2023

2 mins

Human bias poses a real threat to effective decision-making, especially in HR, where someone's judgment can shape your career. Hiring managers have traditionally leaned on human judgment, often leading to selection biases favouring similar candidates over the most qualified ones. This unintentional bias stifles diversity and hampers progress. Preconceptions exist that algorithms extrapolate human bias. But what if A.I. could identify high-performing teams without bias?

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AI & Quality of Hire

The Balancing Act: How to Achieve Quality of Hire with AI in Today's Competitive Job Market

4 August 2023

4 mins

Do you know a quality candidate when you meet one? Indeed, but the real challenge lies in defining what truly makes a candidate exceptional.

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Shifting Paradigms Understanding Why Young Professionals Prefer Hybrid and Remote Work

Shifting Paradigms: Understanding Why Young Professionals Prefer Hybrid and Remote Work

30 June 2023

3 mins

In recent years, the landscape of work has experienced a dramatic transformation. The traditional 9-to-5 office routine has evolved to adopt more flexible options, such as hybrid and remote work. As technology continues to evolve, young people are at the forefront of this shift, with their work preferences shaping the future of the professional world. In this blog post, let's explore the factors driving their rising attraction to these flexible work arrangements.

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Connecting the Dots: Managing Young Talent with Cultural Sensitivity and Flexibility

5 May 2023

4 mins

As the workforce develops, early career recruiters and HR professionals have encountered the challenge of addressing young talent from different generations.

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What is the Quality of hire

Why is Pre-hire quality important in volume hiring?

4 April 2023

4 mins

Before we deep dive into the pre-hire quality let's first understand what is the quality of hire.

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Using ChatGPT in recruitment the Pera viewpoint

Using ChatGPT in recruitment: the Pera viewpoint

3 April 2023

4 mins

On the surface, the automated language generator ChatGPT is a fantastic new tool for recruiters. After all, our whole sector is making full use of smart technologies to improve the way in which candidates are matched to employers. So what’s not to like?

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How to measure recruitment effectiveness?

26 March 2023

3 mins

Recruitment effectiveness and recruitment efficiency are vital parts of the data-driven hiring process in any organization. The ultimate goal is to reduce hiring costs and increase the quality of hire.

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7 Key elements to drive candidate experience

7 tips to create a great candidate experience

7 March 2023

3 mins

The recruitment industry is becoming more and more cutthroat. We already know that a positive candidate experience is crucial to attracting top talent. But what does positive candidate experience truly mean? How realistic is it to have a great candidate experience?

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3 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) topics beyond gender and race for 2023

27 February 2023

4 mins

In recent years there has been extensive discussion about the influence that racial, and gender-based biased practices and prejudice have on society. 70% of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives in companies are related to gender and race. But what about the more invisible and unobvious layers of what forms us as people?

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5 Top Data Protection Tips for Recruiters

21 October 2022

4 mins

Many organizations handle a large quantity of sensitive data from people. That is why security measures are needed to prevent that data from slipping into the wrong hands.

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5 Tips to overcome or challenge a hiring manager’s bias

10 October 2022

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI, unconscious bias, and bias hiring are all words we have been reading a lot about in the last few years.

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Diversity and Inclusion at workplace

Are we still talking about Diversity and Inclusion in 2023?

15 September 2022

3 mins

Over the years, many initiatives have concentrated on encouraging employers to have a diverse workforce. D&I was ascertained to enhance innovation, performance, and productivity. Therefore, hiring for diversity and inclusion has become one of the preferences for companies.

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science behind Pera

Four common questions about the science behind Pera

13 September 2022

6 mins

Your language is as unique as a fingerprint and provides insight in your personality and key competencies. But what kind of language analysis techniques can be used to obtain these insights? The most common techniques in the computational linguistics field to infer personality and competencies from natural language are listed below:

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Recruitment fatigue

Are we having Recruitment fatigue?

8 September 2022

4 mins

Most of the pandemic is over, and while we’re still feeling the aftermath of it businesses are back on steam. Meaning we’re starting to fight again for the pool of talent our civilisation has to offer.

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