Blog
White Paper: The elements of a great candidate experience
If you’ve tried to hire in the past year, you’ve likely experienced the war for talent firsthand. Did you know that 46% of candidates have a poor application experience? Candidates know they have options in this competitive environment, and they have high expectations. And yet employers often fail to meet those expectations.
This white paper examines the three elements that go into providing an exceptional candidate experience, the kind that also feeds customer experience.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Graduate Recruitment: Is It All A Game?
Insights at Work - 6th April 2018,
You’ve graduated from a four-year degree and decide to apply for a role in a graduate programme. You’re excited to showcase the skills you have learned and apply them in a real-life business context. You’re asked to complete an online assessment as part of the application process. The assessment is a game in which you must control a robot to shoot numerous flying objects. Your fate in landing your first professional job lies in the result of this game and you wonder: Is this the right way to test your abilities for the role?
Graduate Assessment in the media
Hannah Crawley: Graduates need an escape from traditional assessment
HR review - 7th February 2018, UK
At Nationwide, we’ve enhanced our graduate selection process to help us recruit 65 graduates each year, from 3,000 applicants, who can hit the ground running, work effectively in teams and become our future leaders. We’ve introduced new screening tests and a redesigned assessment centre which includes an innovative ‘escape room’ challenge that assesses relevant competencies and behaviours. Our new selection process is engaging and scientifically-robust – and it has already proved successful.
Graduate Assessment in the media
The Future Of Candidate Assessment: How you will meet your talent needs in 2022
HR.com - 14th September 2017,
It’s the year 2022 and Jill is graduating from university in a few
months and is just starting to think about her career opportunities. She
wasn’t considering your organization, however your artificial
recruitment agent, Sam, notices that Jill is graduating soon and
identifies her as a prospect.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Three graduate assessment tech trends
AGR Magazine - 19th April 2017, UK
Three developments in graduate assessment will make recruiters' lives easier, says Dr Achim Preuss, co-founder and chief technology officer of international talent measurement and assessment specialist cut-e.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Airline recruitment trends and challenges and how recruiters are responding
HR Director - 23rd January 2017, UK
Job seekers are attracted to airlines because of their strong brands, the training they provide and the international career opportunities they offer. However, there are four clear characteristics that make airline recruitment unusually challenging, particularly when you’re recruiting flight professionals. David Barrett explains the key challenges facing airline recruiters – and how to overcome them.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Bank of Ireland launches Talent Rising
The Herald - 21st April 2016, Ireland
Bank of Ireland, in partnership with cut-e, launched Talent Rising, a national programme aimed at delivering high-impact solutions for economic and social challenges faced in Ireland. This programme creates an opportunity for 12 high-performing, early career individuals, to collaborate and create tangible solutions to help address issues of national importance.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Siemens puts teen mobile talent assessments to the test
Diginomica - 16th March 2016, USA
Siemens offers around 120 different apprentice programs – a variety that can be overwhelming for applicants who may have little insight into their strengths. So how does a potential applicant know to which programme he or she is best suited? To help this choice, cut-e developed the job navigator tool Jona™ for Siemens comprising a series of tests and assessments.
Graduate Assessment in the media
Dark matter in the business world – The importance of the stuff we don’t see
MDI - 21st October 2013, UK
Howard Grosvenor, Director of Professional Services at cut-e UK writes about what important information is missing when just looking at the successful. How can a good look at unsuccessfulness, the dark matter, help companies make better selection decisions?
chatAssess: the instant messaging simulation game for more engaging recruitment
cut-e's new psychometric communications game chatAssess is a powerful situational judgement tool in the instant messaging style of WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger and assesses a candidate’s strengths, personality and abilities. The 6 – 15 minute assessment is designed to support early screening and attraction in graduate and apprentice recruitment. The assessment resembles a popular messenger service for smartphones and this helps to make it attractive, engaging and realistic to candidates. From a user-experience perspective, chatAssess appeals to millennials and early career candidates by providing a conversational interaction in a familiar format.
David Barrett's advice for graduates
David Barrett, CCO cut-e, gives some tips for graduates:
"Companies .... to acquiring talent and wanting talent. And you need to remember that: They want you as much as you want them"
