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From the Experts: Measuring Skill
It’s time to look beyond resumes and the four-year degree–hiring is now about skills.
That’s what we learned on this week’s episode of America Back to Work. America Back to Work features weekly blogs and interviews with industry professionals, and together, we’re dreaming up a future where companies are thriving, employees enjoy their jobs, and America is back to work. Click here to subscribe.
In this week’s episode, S2Verify co-founder and chief strategy officer, Arnette Heintze, sits down with Josh Millet, co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Criteria, one of the first SaaS solutions to provide talent assessments to the market.
Millet created Criteria with the mission to take powerfully predictive science and make it accessible to organizations of all kinds, enabling them to make better, evidence-based talent decisions that drive results. Criteria’s suite of assessments is the most comprehensive on the market and covers aptitude, personality, emotional intelligence, risk, and skills to provide the most robust picture of talent.
Millet predicts that skill-based hiring is the future of hiring–skills are coming into the forefront as a better predictor of positive employee outcomes compared to traditional legacy techniques like resume/job history, degrees, and interviews.
And, according to Millet, “skills” don’t simply refer to hard skills. The skills measured in pre-employment testing can also include emotional intelligence, integrity, and cognitive aptitude to determine if a candidate is a cultural fit.
“Culture fit is something most employers care about,” he says. “But it’s measured in a way that’s not productive in hiring culture-fit employees.” Pre-employment assessments can help employers do just that–standardize the evaluation of the “skills” that matter most, including culture.
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