Skills Based Hiring Guide

This skills-based hiring guide from Talos360 looks at the latest skills-based hiring news and trends. It’s full of skills-based hiring stats long with practical advice as to how candidate assessments can help businesses bridge the skills gap.

While it’s ubiquitously appreciated in HR circles that there’s a prevalent skills gap, the genuine business impacts are perhaps less acknowledged. Here in the UK, there is a reported 40% of UK workers that do not possess the right qualifications, which will have serious repercussions from loss of productivity to poor morale and the resulting impact on business performance and revenue.

As explored in this skills based hiring guide, if a business utilises a skills-based hiring approach, they’re better placed to assess the broader aspect of a candidate’s skills rather than basing a hiring decision on background or place of study. Indeed, opting for a skills-based hiring approach helps tackle the perennial issue of skills shortages by widening the talent pool – considerably.

With a skills-based hiring approach, businesses can better match candidates to their roles based on core skills. Rather than seeking to hire a candidate based on their prior experience or formal education, businesses are increasingly looking to soft skills and how they can be applied to the vacancies they have.

Enter candidate assessments. With candidate assessments, HR possess data right at the very beginning of the hiring process to better understand everything from overall ability to transferable skills, aptitude and learning agility.

According to the Aberdeen Strategy and Research, of those companies that already use candidate assessments as part of their hiring processes, 39% have reported lower turnover.

You will learn

The skills based hiring guide provides key HR insights including:

• News on the growing skills gap
• UK talent shortage by sector
• Business impact of the skills gap
• How to bridge the skills gap
• How to optimise screening
• Benefits of screening “in”
• Types of candidate assessment
• Benefits of candidate assessments

About Talos360

Talos360 provide innovative HR tech solutions to enable businesses to hire and engage with the very best talent. Our HR tech is built based on feedback from HR professionals, which means that our products are aligned to solve the challenge of modern recruitment.

Talos ATS was created to streamline your hiring, whilst promoting your employer brand to attract the very best talent. It’s an easy way to offer the ideal candidate journey, whilst reducing HR admin and promoting best practice hiring.

We also created the innovative employee engagement platform – Talos Engage. Talos Engage is perfect for finding out what really matters to your employees and provides the insights to make data led decisions around the benefits you offer your team.