Hiring more people ≠ better results.
Hiring better people = better results.
You’ve heard the Herb Kelleher line before, “don’t hire for skills, hire for attitude… You can always teach skills”, though do we really know how to do it?
Hiring managers resemble deers in headlights at the moment, as AI isn’t helping us ‘be like Herb.’ So far, it has only dehumanised hiring:
- AI-generated CVs: Over 45% of job seekers now use AI to create or enhance their resumes.
- AI-driven applications: Half of all applications on job boards are driven by AI-generated personalised recommendations – SEEK.
- AI-powered screening: 45% of recruiters rely on AI to screen CVs.
See what’s happening here?
The bots are interviewing the bots!
Really, they are simply word-matching ‘skills’… just like a 21 year old recruiter still hazed from their Gap Year does.
We need to drastically improve the hiring process. Imbue humanness. Improve our abilities to assess, highlight and reward attitude.
How do we do that?
- Learn Key Behavioural Interviewing Techniques:
- Situational Judgement Tests: Use pre-written scenarios to assess a candidate’s judgement and decision-making skills in specific (again, relevant) situations.
- STAR Method: Ask candidates to describe a Situation, Task, Action, and Result related to a specific skill or experience.
- Hypothetical Scenarios: Present candidates with hypothetical (though highly relevant) situations to gauge their problem-solving skills.
Start using Psychometrics and Assessments
Short, punchy Psychometric assessments (just like what our friends at TALY do so well, *PS let me know if you’d like a free trial with them) can provide valuable insights and be used to identify candidates who are a good cultural fit and likely to succeed in the role.
- Personality assessments: Measure personality traits such as extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
- Cognitive ability tests: Assess a candidate’s intelligence, problem-solving skills, and reasoning abilities.
- Work style assessments: Identify a candidate’s preferred work style and how they approach tasks.
AI is drastically renovating the entire hiring process.
If you’re not ahead of the curve, it will be used against you by candidates and recruiters.
Don’t fall victim – become a human-centric hiring machine!
