#13: The Future of Assessments and the Candidate Experience

The Changing State of Talent Acquisition

This week we welcome Bas van de Haterd to the podcast. Bas proudly identifies as a “professional snoop” — a title that captures his more than 15 years of experience as an HR consultant, candidate assessment and experience expert, and frequent conference speaker.

Topics include: the myriad dimensions of candidate experience, how optimized career sites boost candidate conversion rates, the disconnect between organizational D&I goals and the employee experience portrayed on career sites, the issues raised by having marketing or IT “own” your corporate career site, why career sites are “multipliers” for candidate flow, the distinction between having analytic skills and an analytic mindset, why résumés make poor predictors of employee success, alternative approaches to cognitive and personality assessments, and strategies for removing unwanted bias from candidate screening and assessments.