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Choosing a pre-hire assessment provider: what the new RecTech standard asks of them
UK RecTech vendors process more than 200 million job applications between them a year (Better Hiring Institute). That is the scale of what is riding on these tools actually working: whether the right people get shortlisted, and whether good candidates get screened out by something nobody has ever checked. The pressure on that volume is […]
How to avoid contrast bias in recruitment
Imagine your team spends a day sifting CVs. The first few are underwhelming. Then they open one that’s reasonably strong and, by comparison, it looks excellent. Or you’re interviewing six candidates in a day. The 10am candidate gives polished, detailed answers and sets an unusually high bar. The person who follows is perfectly capable, but […]
If AI can pass your hiring process, what are you actually assessing? Join live Equitas, ThriveMap and Morgan Philips Webinar
AI is changing both sides of recruitment at the same time. Candidates can use it to write CVs, improve applications, prepare interview answers and increasingly automate the application process itself. Employers are using AI to screen candidates, match people to roles and automate parts of selection. Some of this technology is genuinely useful. Some of […]
Principles and best practices for pre hire assessment design
A pre hire assessment can look sophisticated, feel engaging and process thousands of candidates without measuring anything especially useful. The quality of an assessment is not determined by how impressive the technology appears or how many question formats it contains. It depends on whether the assessment measures capabilities that genuinely matter in the job, produces […]
The AI Doom Loop: Why automated hiring is screening out the people you actually want
Job applications grew four times faster than job openings in the first half of 2024 alone, and that gap has only widened since. Gartner projects that by 2028, one in four job candidates globally will be fake: AI-generated profiles with fabricated resumes, cloned voices, and deepfaked video sitting through interviews that were never a real […]
Want to assess attention to detail in your hiring process? Here’s how to ensure you hire the right person
Attention to detail is one of the most commonly assessed skills in recruitment, and for good reason. In many roles, the ability to spot errors, follow processes and work accurately has a direct impact on quality, compliance and customer outcomes. So it makes sense that employers invest in attention to detail tests. The problem is […]
Employers have adopted the job-relevant assessments, but personality tests are undermining them
New research finds most talent acquisition teams have already moved to skills-based hiring, but legacy tools may be cancelling out the benefit. New UK research* from pre-hire assessment specialist ThriveMap suggests that mostemployers have already made the right call on assessment format, testing job-relevant skillsand real work samples rather than relying on personality profiling alone. […]
94% of the cost of early attrition sits outside the recruitment budget
New customer analysis has found that almost all of the financial cost of early employee turnover falls outside recruitment, with training and lost productivity accounting for more than 94% of the total cost. A UK retail and distribution business mapped every cost associated with a warehouse operative leaving within their first month as part of […]
What skills talent acquisition professionals need in 2026 and beyond
Every conversation about AI in recruitment seems to end in the same place. “AI is saving recruiters hours.” That’s great. But the more interesting question is what recruiters should actually be doing with those hours. That was one of the biggest themes coming out of RecFest UK 2026. The technology is improving at an incredible […]