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Top 6 skills-based testing tools to incorporate into your hiring process

Skills-based hiring is proven to enhance candidate experience, promote diversity, and reduce turnover. Despite its advantages, organisations often struggle to implement skills-based testing in the hiring process at scale. To help you get started, we have assembled a list of the top skills-based hiring tools to use and explore: 1. Realistic Job Assessments: ThriveMap.io ThriveMap […]

Emily Hill 5 December 2023 5 min
Recruitment Problems

Three example best practices to elevate your candidate experience

Looking to improve your candidate experience? You’re in the right place. In this article, we’ve compiled three “best practice” examples implemented by hiring teams to improve candidate experience. But first, we’ll define what candidate experience is and explore its significance in achieving a well-oiled recruitment machine. Let’s go. What is candidate experience, and why does […]

Emily Hill 20 November 2023 6 min
Recruitment Problems

How to Hire Emotionally Intelligent People: Lap of Love Spotlight

It’s said that there are nine categories of intelligence. This means that while some individuals might excel in the structured world of mathematics, others will master more physical tasks, and so on. When it comes to recruiting people with certain forms of intelligence, one type of intelligence isn’t easy to identify from screening a CV […]

Emily Hill 31 October 2023 3 min
Recruitment Problems

How to Address Healthcare Staffing Challenges [Webinar]

Healthcare staff shortages are debilitating providers The healthcare industry in the United States is currently facing significant staffing challenges that are taking a toll on healthcare providers across the nation, according to The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL).

Emily Hill 11 October 2023 1 min
Recruitment Problems

Excellence in high-volume recruitment: ThriveMap’s approach

Many hiring assessments today still rely on abstract questions that do little to reveal a candidate’s true suitability for a role. They evaluate personality traits, measure intellect through theoretical puzzles, and assess skills that may not be relevant to the job. The consequences of these poor assessment processes impact every part of the business: productivity, […]

Emily Hill 4 October 2023 8 min
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How Sodexo is revolutionising healthcare recruitment with pre-hire assessments

The American labor market is undergoing a significant transformation, referred to as the “Great Reshuffle.“ This shift presents a dual challenge for many companies – the need to select the best candidates while also retaining their existing employees. In response to this pressing challenge, ThriveMap has taken the initiative by proposing a transformative pre-hire assessment […]

Emily Hill 4 October 2023 3 min
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How to find out what’s causing high staff turnover

In the fast-paced world of high-volume recruitment, recruiters often find themselves caught in a whirlwind of high staff turnover. The churn can be so swift and relentless that continually needing to fill a leaking bucket of candidates for the same roles becomes a monotonous and bewildering task. However, amid this frustration, the actual root cause […]

Emily Hill 15 September 2023 3 min
Recruitment Problems

How to retain frontline workers

Struggling with high staff turnover? Are potential hires vanishing from your recruitment process? Spending countless hours screening applications for the same roles? If you answered yes to any of the above, it’s a telltale sign that points to a deeper issue: a leaky recruitment process. Frontline workers serve as the backbone of most businesses, ensuring […]

Emily Hill 15 September 2023 3 min
Recruitment Problems

2023 guide to what frontline candidates expect from pre-hire processes

Candid feedback often surfaces on platforms like Glassdoor, where candidates freely share their experiential discontent. Some of these reviews can carry a real sting. You can’t always please everyone. But it is important to be able to identify potential vulnerabilities within your pre-hire process to avoid unfavourable reviews that could potentially tarnish your company’s reputation. […]

Emily Hill 13 September 2023 2 min