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Tips for Candidates Preparing for the Virtual Job Tryout
July 11, 2012 by William Frierson
Joe Murphy of Shaker Consulting Group
Candidates can be resourceful. In examining key word searches that drive traffic to our web site, we have discovered people may be looking for guidance on how to complete the Virtual Job Tryout. It appears they want to be successful on their pre-employment test. To offer help to the curious web surfers, we have created a new page on our web: How to Take the Virtual Job Tryout.
We emphasize on this page that a candidate being offered the opportunity to complete a Virtual Job Tryout has encountered an employer very interested in their career success.Our intent is to enhance the brand image of the company, continue to educate the candidate on the value of the Virtual Job Tryout, provide them a link to quotes from candidates that have completed a similar candidate experience, and offer suggestions on how to prepare for and complete the assessment.
Here are the tips we offer candidates. Continue Reading
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Virtual Job Tryout Demonstrations to Offer Unique Candidate Experience
July 05, 2012 by William FriersonJoe Murphy of Shaker Consulting Group
Shaker Consulting Group will be conducting demonstrations of the Virtual Job Tryout for participants at Taleo World. You will see how we create a candidate experience as unique as your brand, an evaluation experience as challenging as your job.
This is our sixth year as a sponsor/exhibitor at Taleo World. It is a great opportunity for us to connect with our existing clients on the Taleo platform. It also allows us to showcase our simulation for pre-employment testing to other Taleo clients. Continue Reading
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Candidate Experience Awards – Virtual Job Tryout Client Among Winners
July 04, 2012 by William Frierson
2011 Candidate Experience Award Stamp
Some organizations take their candidate experience seriously. This year, after considerable thought, some survey data and insightful collaborative writing, The Candidate Experience Awards were conceived.
Gerry Crispin and a team nurtured the idea and a process for application and evaluation was born. The industry is fortunate to have forward thinking individuals willing to get out in front and take some pull-forward actions. Continue Reading
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Brand Plays a Role in Assessments During The Candidate Experience
July 03, 2012 by William Frierson
Top Employers Deliver Better Candidate Experience
According to Moses Bar-Yoseph, the national director, talent attraction, for KPMG in Canada, “The line is now blurring between assessment and branding.”
KPMG Canada recently launched a pre-employment assessment for managerial candidates. Positioned as a Day-in-the-Life experience, it provides a candidate experience as unique as the KPMG brand, and as challenging as the role of a manager in tax, audit or consultancy. KPMG sees candidate engagement as a two-way process of both education and evaluation. Continue Reading
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Employers Engage Candidates through Virtual Job Tryouts
June 26, 2012 by William FriersonJoe Murphy of Shaker Consulting Group
Jennifer Alsever, journalist and writer recently penned an article describing how more companies are asking candidates to provide a work sample as part of the screening and evaluation process. Show, Don’t Tell is the title and the theme. Her great article is here. Her examples deal with small populations, filling one or a small number of positions.
When trying to scale up to fill hundreds, or thousands, is that format reasonable? Well maybe not, but it’s close cousin approach certainly does. Continue Reading
