🗨️ The Age of Continuous Improvement: Why Stagnation is Your Biggest Enemy

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The Age of Continuous Improvement: Why Stagnation is Your Biggest Enemy

In a rapidly evolving marketplace, the pursuit of excellence is not just an advantage; it's essential for survival. The emphasis on continuous improvement within talent acquisition cannot be overstated.

Across various industries, productivity and automation technologies are not just buzzwords; they're the linchpins of efficiency and competitiveness. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, one observes firsthand how these advancements have revolutionised the way we attract, hire, and retain talent.

However, amidst this technological fervour, a critical question arises: Are we investing enough in our human capital? Embracing technology is paramount, but fostering a culture of learning and adaptability amongst our teams is equally crucial. The synergy between human ingenuity and technological prowess is where true innovation thrives.

In conclusion, while navigating through the latest trends in recruitment technology, let's not lose sight of our most valuable asset - people. Investing in their continuous development is what will ultimately differentiate the good from the great in this relentless race for excellence.

🛠️Tools of the Week🛠️

Sova

Assessment Platform

High volume, fast paced hiring calls for robust technology and automation that can keep up on all fronts including when running recruitment marketing campaigns.

🚀 What is it and how does it work? Used by some of the biggest names in industry, Sova is an Assessment Experience Platform that streamlines how your organisation assesses talent.

Sova offer a variety of customisable assessments that cover, personality, cognitive reasoning, motivation and learnability

In their own words, Sova’s Assessment Experience Platform replaces piecemeal solutions with an integrated platform that hires the right people faster, fairer and at a lower cost.

Other features include, enhanced, seamless and personalised communication. Automation for thing like scheduling, and reporting and analytics so you can see assessment results in real time

💡 Who is it for? Sova promotes users cases for mid level companies and up, to enterprise, 100+ employees is a good time to start. They also promote their solutions in a few key industries, that include, retail, financial services, professional services and public sector

💸 How much does it cost? They offer 5 pricing plans: Sova, Sova Plus, Sova Pro and Enterprise.

Sova: 100-250 employees - £833/month billed annually

Sova Plus: 251-1000 employees - £1667month billed annually

Sova Pro: 1001-3000 employees - £2500/month billed annually

Enterprise - Contact for more info

🧰 Alternatives: Mercer Mettl / Equip

🌐 Website: https://sovaassessment.com/

Equip

Assessment Platform

🚀 What is it and how does it work? Equip is another assessment platform that helps recruiters screen candidates across skills with its automated talent assessments.

Assessment platforms like Equip can be especially useful if you find your self recruiting in an area, skill set or sector that you may be unfamiliar with with. Tools like Equip enable recruiters and hiring managers to find pre-built assessments to use despite your need, and whether it’s technical or non-technical.

You can focus on the best-performing candidates pool by shortlisting them via Ready-To-Use AI-proctored assessments.

Some more features include:

1. Create Assessments with our Question Banks: Role-specific assessments in seconds, with thousands of ready-to-use questions that test skills at different levels

2. Shortlist Tech and Non-Tech Candidates: Developers, Marketers, Accountants, Customer Support Executives, Designers and many more!

3. Use Skills-specific Test Types for: Quizzes, Programming Tests, CSS Tests, SQL Tests, Excel Tests, Video Response and more!

4. Manage Candidate Pipeline: Easily categorise your candidates across different stages such as Shortlisted, Hired and Rejected. Integrate with ATS.

5. Add Your Own Questions: Create/import it easily into Equip

6. Prevent Candidates Cheating: Equip uses AutoProctor, which has hosted millions of proctored exams to date. So, you don’t have to worry about candidates cheating.

7. Integrate on your own site: Use our API or SDK integration to create assessments and view results on your own site. White-labelling available.

💡 Who is it for? All tech and non tech hiring. They also promote a user case for high volume and student/campus hiring

💸 How much does it cost? With Equip you get 10 free credits upon signing up, after that you’re charged at $1/credit. Once you reach 100 you get a 10% discount applied. See below their discount chart

🧰 Alternatives: Criterea / HackerRank

🌐 Website: https://equip.co

Pyn

Employee onboarding

🚀 What is it and how does it work? Pyn is an Employee Communications & Experience Platform. Pyn improves employee communications using powerful marketing techniques, such as personalisation, scheduling, automated triggering. With Pyn, employees automatically receive helpful messages at key moments - from their first day in their job, to a promotion, to running their first one-on-one.

Pyn lets you fully customise your onboarding process and sequence ,plan out the employee journey from start to finish and creat touch points, assigning ownership internally so nothing goes missed.

💡 Who is it for? A great tool for a company that is just starting to scale and get systems in place.

💸 How much does it cost? You can use their journey designer totally free. The costs kick in when you start to activate that journey and use some of the key features.

The minimum cost is $750/month on a monthly plan or $600/month billed yearly. Check their pricing page out to have a play around with their usage calculator.

🧰 Alternatives: Simpplr / HiBob

🌐 Website: https://www.pynhq.com/

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