Assessing candidate potential with HireVue

In today’s fast-paced and competitive job market, finding the right talent has become more challenging than ever. Traditional methods of recruitment, often reliant on resumes, can miss crucial insights into a candidate’s true potential. 

This is where modern technology steps in to revolutionize the hiring process with candidate assessment. Enter HireVue—a digital interviewing platform that goes beyond the conventional to help employers assess not just the qualifications on paper, but the skills, personality, and potential that make a candidate the perfect fit for the role. 

Explore how HireVue is transforming talent acquisition and why it should be an essential tool in assessing candidate potential. 

What is HireVue?

HireVue is an AI-driven platform specifically designed to unlock the potential of your candidates by assessing the skills and competencies that best predict success. By offering data-driven insights, teams are empowered to move beyond resume review—which does little to discover what candidates are capable of achieving. 

HireVue Assessments  offer a complete library of AI-scored interview, language skills, game-based, virtual job tryouts and technical assessments that empower hiring teams to make faster, fairer decisions. With an assessment for any job at any level, TA teams can better predict success—and build a workforce today that can last through tomorrow’s challenges.

The best part? HireVue solutions integrate seamlessly with your ATS—so you can work seamlessly in one hiring ecosystem instead of bouncing between screens.

HireVue offers a variety of benefits:

• Efficiency: Streamlining the interview process by reducing time-to-hire
• Consistency: Ensuring a fair and less biased assessment with standardized questions and AI analysis
• Flexibility: Allowing candidates to complete interviews at their convenience
• Scalability: Managing large volumes of candidates without compromising quality

Types of assessments 

• AI-Scored Interview Assessments: Our team of IO psychologists work with you to create and monitor a relevant talent assessment that fits your job needs while mitigating bias. Our candidate assessment software will help you combine the interview and skills assessment into a single, unified experience that can be completed in less than 20 minutes.

• Game-Based Assessments: Game-based psychometric tests can be used as pre-hire assessments and as assessments for internal mobility and leadership potential. Assess candidates’ skills in a quick and engaging experience to help you easily prioritize candidates on the skills that matter.

• Technical Assessments: Non-technical recruiters can easily prioritize technical talent with auto-scored coding assessments. HireVue’s technical hiring solution features a coding test screening platform which measures a comprehensive set of competencies, so recruiters have confidence that the candidates they advance to the hiring team are the most qualified for the role.

• Virtual Job Tryout®: Available across more than 40 industries, roles, and attributes, the Virtual Job Tryout® is a powerful, science-based assessment that engages candidates in job-relevant exercises. Candidates learn more about the role and if it’s a fit—and hiring teams learn which candidates have the skills to do the job.

Enhancing the candidate experience

Your candidates want a chance to showcase their skills and what they’re capable of doing. Give them the opportunity to share—without the preconceived notions that can come with simple resume review. 

Resume review invites bias into the process, even when it’s unintentional. Beyond bias based on race, gender, or alma mater, familiarity bias can occur as well. For example, “liking” a candidate based on similar sports fandom or the same hometown invites bias into the process. 

Structured interviewing and assessments ensure all your candidates are offered the same experience, so each is evaluated based on the same criteria in a structured environment. 

In addition, HireVue automated solutions keep your process moving with automated workflows—keeping candidates engaged in the process and never questioning what the next step is or when they’ll hear from the hiring team. 

In addition, insight reports offer candidates feedback on their completed interviews, highlighting strengths and any potential areas of improvement—a welcomed resource for candidates in what is typically a stressful process. 

The science behind mitigating bias 

One of the benefits of AI-powered solutions is the ability to mitigate bias in the hiring process, so ensuring our technology is audited regularly is critically important.  Both HireVue data and algorithms are audited to check for bias and mitigated accordingly. While the topic of “AI in hiring” may feel newer, our hiring technology benefits from decades of work on pre-hire assessments in I/O Psychology. Computers allow us to formalize fairness/bias requirements that we define in an automatic way. Rather than simply incentivizing an algorithm to predict an outcome (in this case, a job-related competency), we simultaneously penalize it for having significant demographic group differences in the outcome.

Read HireVue’s industry-first AI Explainability Statement to learn about the methodology for mitigating bias in algorithms. 

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