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Social Recruitment: An Effective Tool for Finding the Best Candidates

Effective and successful recruiters know that while posting jobs on online job boards is still necessary, it's no longer the most effective method for finding great candidates.

Make Online Testing More Relevant To Your Company

Many potential employees in many industries have gone through the process of pre-hire testing. Often, these tests were painfully generic and assessed values that had nothing to do with the job...

New features: Candidates import, Skip questions, Anti-cheating

I’m happy to announce you that we’ve just improved Skillmeter with three new features: candidates bulk import, skip test questions and anti-cheating.

Want to write a guest post for Skillmeter blog? Here’s how!

Here at Skillmeter we place a huge emphasis on collaboration and helping each other out. With our blog, we also want to help you by getting your name in front of more eyes. This is why we’re happy to announce that we’re opening up the blog for guest posts.

New Features: Reminders and multi-test sessions

I’m happy to announce you that we’ve just improved Skillmeter with two new features: reminder notifications and the possibility to split multiple tests in individual sessions

Success comes from hard work and execution

I always wondered what is the difference between success and failure, why some win and some others loose.

Passion is underrated

I've recently attended a Steve Balmer keynote at Gartner’s Symposium in Orlando and I was so impressed by all the passion he showed while talking about his company, Microsoft.

The advantages of using Skillmeter

First of all, let me start start my first article by saying how exciting I am to have joined Skillmeter. I am a true believer that we will succeed in what we set out to do: help recruiters manage sensibly the candidates' skills while reducing the time needed for the hiring process altogether.

New member in Skillmeter team

I’m super happy to welcome Adrian, who joined Skillmeter team as Operations Manager.



Screening job candidates using social media

Nowadays Hiring Professionals have an additional weapon to screen candidates. We are talking about social media as a recruitment tool. It would be unwise not to take advantage of this powerful opportunity which is free, even though a bit time consuming. However, a study conducted by Reppler has shown that 5 % don’t use social networking sites to screen prospective employees.