Opening pandora’s box on skills-based hiring: reframing our understanding of skills

What happens when you bring together two veterans of the psychometric assessment industry?
The headlines: some very strongly aligned views and some opposing ones.
This week, Robert is speaking to Ben Williams -- a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society with almost two and a half decades of experience in the assessment industry, and the Founder and Managing Director of Sten10 --a specialist assessment consultancy working with the likes of The Telegraph and Deloitte.
Join Robert and Ben for the latest episode of the TA Disruptors podcast as they debate…
💡​The difference between skills, personality, behaviour, knowledge, competence, and motivation… and how to evaluate each effectively in the selection process
💥Why so many skills-based hiring processes open up a pandora’s box and unleash a web of complexity so challenging to unpick that implementing skills-based hiring feels impossible… and how to simplify your thinking around what good looks like
🔥What skill-enablers are and why evaluating them is mission critical if you want to guarantee you’re hiring fresh talent who will be able to continuously adapt, grow, and acquire new skills
​📜 The best alternatives to CV-based hiring, and how to ensure that you don’t accidentally equate skills for experience or re-introduce bias to your process having worked so hard to root it out
🤖 Two sides of the argument on whether self-assessment is problematic in the era of the AI-enabled candidate, the challenge of avoiding addressing the issue, and why emerging and easily accessible tech stands to exacerbate it
✨How to embrace new technology - depending on whether your organisation is full of pioneers or you have work to do in convincing them to do something differently
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