Name: Using assessments to create a diverse and inclusive workforce - May 2021
Start: 2021-05-01T16:21:00Z
End: 2021-05-01T16:21:42.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Welcome to the Sova Assessment BrightTalk channel.

Sova is a scientifically-strong and digitally delivered assessment platform. Our foundations in organisational psychology power our assessments enabling clients to make accurate and fair data-driven decisions without compromising on anything else. Our award-winning online assessment platform includes tools for internal hiring and leadership development as well as recruitment.

In today's fast-paced and evolving job market, the need for strategic alignment between talent assessment and recruitment cannot be overstated. This webinar will dive into the importance of alignment for achieving superior outcomes.

-Discuss the concept of alignment between talent assessment and recruitment strategies, and why this alignment is pivotal for successful talent acquisition

-Confront and demystify common myths surrounding talent assessments

-Learn how AI and data analytics synergise recruitment efforts, along with examples of innovative assessment technologies and platforms

-Find out how to integrate assessment insights into recruitment decision-making and design tailored assessment solutions

-Discuss the future evolution of talent assessment and recruitment alignment

How to Align Talent Assessment and Recruitment Strategies for Optimal Results

Join us for an insightful panel discussion in collaboration with the Institute of Student Employers (ISE). In this webinar, we will delve into the crucial topic of early career candidate experience and how organisations can elevate their recruitment strategies to attract and retain top emerging talent.

Our panel of experts include Rebecca Worrall from HSF, Hannah Middleditch at Nationwide, and Cath Hope from Atos. Leaders in their respective industries, they will share their expertise and experiences in leveraging cutting-edge assessment solutions to optimise the early career recruitment process and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.

During this webinar, we will explore the following key areas:
* Enhancing Candidate Experience in Early Career Recruitment: Learn strategies to create a seamless and engaging candidate journey that leaves a lasting positive impression.
* Leveraging Blended Assessment: Discover how the use of blended assessment approaches can effectively evaluate early career candidates’ skills, competencies, and potential.
* Video Interviewing: Explore the benefits and best practices of video interviewing in the early career recruitment process, including remote assessments and virtual connections.
* Virtual Assessment Centre (VAC): Gain insights into the utilisation of virtual assessment centres to assess early career candidates’ suitability for roles and foster an immersive and interactive assessment experience.
* Best Practices in Data-Driven Recruitment: Hear from HSF, Nationwide, and Atos on their data-conscious approaches to early career recruitment, ensuring fairness, diversity, and informed decision-making.
* Nurturing Talent for Future Success: Learn how organisations can support the development and growth of early career hires, providing a solid foundation for their professional journey.

Revolutionising Early Career Recruitment: Enhancing Candidate Experience

Labor market dynamics continue to provide a roller coaster ride for employers, especially for those who are finding it hard to fill their funnels with qualified candidates. Companies are challenging the notion of what makes a qualified candidate and slowly abandoning their reliance on traditional signals such as education and resumes.

Join this webinar panel discussion, where we will reveal the strategies and techniques leading companies have employed to outpace the competition and secure top talent, by building programs to help their existing talent forge borderless internal career paths, on a global scale.

What’s being discussed:

• Leveraging innovative recruitment practices to attract and engage diverse, high-potential candidates
• The role of employer branding in differentiating organisations
• Standing out in a crowded market and creating a compelling value proposition for candidates.
•  The importance of a data-driven and agile approach
• Fostering a culture of inclusivity and belonging

… and much more!

Talent without boundaries: Elevating global recruitment & assessment practices

Join us on May 30th at 3pm EST time for an enlightening panel discussion on a timely and important topic, preparing for and navigating legislation aimed at the use of AI in hiring. Our panel of industry experts will provide multiple perspectives aimed at helping dissect the issues and provide learnings that will help your organization prepare for the upcoming NYC hiring law (along with others to come) and adapt and thrive in our new reality.

Hosted by Dr. Charles Handler, this panel discussion will bring together thought leaders and practitioners who are actively working to help organizations with their policies and practices. Panel guests include: Mark Girouard, an employment law adviser at Nilan Johnson Lewis specializing in compliance for assessments and AI hiring tools, Fred Oswald, a professor of IO psychology at Rice University who is actively advising on AI legislation and policy creation, and Kelly Trindel, head of machine learning trust at Workday who is actively building an AI ethics and ML governance program.

In this dynamic conversation, our panelists will share their perspectives on:
· The latest on the ever-changing NYC AI hiring law – where are we now, what to expect next, and how to prepare
· Developing legislation and regulatory guidance.
· The risks and rewards of using AI based hiring tools.
· Best practices for AI risk measurement and management.
· What companies can do NOW to ensure they are prepared.

This interactive panel discussion will provide an opportunity for HR professionals, talent acquisition specialists, IO psychologists and anyone interested in the legal compliance of AI hiring tools to explore several sides of the key issues that will undoubtedly expand the boundaries of legal compliance in hiring. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions, share their experiences, and learn from the expertise of our esteemed panelists.

Cracking the code: Expert Perspectives on AI Hiring Compliance in NYC & Beyond

Join us on May 4th at 3pm BST time for an engaging and insightful webinar, where industry experts will delve into the world of tech-enabled hiring and its transformative impact on volume recruitment. Hosted by Tom Lucas, this panel discussion will bring together thought leaders in the talent acquisition and assessment space, including Claudia Nuttgens from AMS, Helen Williams from TUI, and Alan Bourne from Sova.
 
In this dynamic conversation, our panelists will share their perspectives on:
 
• The growing importance of automation in the hiring process and its role in driving efficiency, accuracy, and inclusivity.

• The innovative technologies, tools, and techniques shaping the future of volume recruitment.

• Best practices for implementing tech-enabled hiring strategies, ensuring a seamless integration within your organization.

• The challenges and potential pitfalls of automation in recruitment, and how to navigate them successfully.

• Real-life case studies and success stories, demonstrating the tangible benefits of adopting a tech-driven approach to volume hiring.
 
This interactive webinar will provide an opportunity for HR professionals, talent acquisition specialists, and anyone interested in the future of recruitment to explore the potential of automation and its implications on the industry. Attendees will have the chance to ask questions, share their experiences, and learn from the expertise of our esteemed panelists.

Tech-Enabled Hiring: How Automation is Revolutionising Volume Recruitment

Professionals involved in talent acquisition and development are under constant pressure to achieve key objectives, including:
 
• Lowering the total cost of hiring
• Retain a pool of high-performing talent
• Providing a seamless and engaging experience for suitable candidates
• Ensuring a fair, efficient, and bias-free recruitment process.
 
Decreasing retention impacts a company's productivity, profitability, morale, and hiring costs, combined with a positive candidate experience leads to more applications, higher quality hires, and enhanced brand reputation. 
 
In this webinar we will discuss:
How a focus on both candidate experience and employee retention through pro-active internal mobility, can benefit a company by engaging high-quality candidates and reducing the cost of hiring.

From Hiring to Retention: Enabling a Strong Internal Mobility Strategy

The world is changing, and this requires a new mindset on how to find, evaluate, and hire talent. This is especially true in the area of early career and grad hiring where traditional methods perpetuate long standing biases, reduce the available talent pool, and create an unfriendly and inefficient process.

With this in mind it is important to focus on assessments in the modern era, and how they can be used to increase access to talent, ensure fairness, and build lasting bonds with both applicants and new hires. 

In this webinar Dr. Charles Handler, President, Sova, US will explore:

• How early career and grad hiring is different from that of other jobs.
• What forces are requiring us to rethink grad hiring?
• What the typical early career and grad hiring process looks like.
• How can we rethink early career and grad hiring in the modern workplace?

Speaker: 
Dr. Charles Handler is a renowned expert in the field of talent assessment. Now, President of Sova US, he has spent his career working and advising companies on how to build effective, compliant talent processes that work.

Rethinking early career hiring: Get it right the first time

For anyone involved in hiring and developing talent, the pressure is always on. 
Pressure to:
• Reduce the cost to hire
• Attract & retain the best talent.
• Hire as fast as possible
• Engage qualified candidates & ensure a seamless experience
• Deliver an efficient recruitment process that prevents bias
 
Knowingly or unknowingly, organisations are wasting resources on disjointed, out-of-date, and inefficient talent assessment processes. The result? A complicated tech stack, unnecessary layers of costs, stretched hiring teams, frustrated candidates and talent lost to competitors.
 
So, how do you deliver an outstanding hiring experience that is highly cost-effective, swift and engaging without cutting corners?
 
In this webinar we examine:-
 
1. How to make hiring processes highly efficient, with demonstrable cost savings and hire the talent you need faster than ever before?
2. How global organisations like Vodafone & MYOB are streamlining their hiring processes at scale and pace with Sova’s Assessment Experience Platform?
3. How to remove data silos and provide a unified talent assessment platform for candidates & users?

Delivering quality, cost-effective hiring experiences without cutting corners

Many organizations need to maintain hiring for key roles to support business continuity or increase the volume of hiring to meet the demands during and post-pandemic. However, the requirement to replace the face-to-face elements of the hiring process means face-to-face assessment is particularly challenging. 
With the right assessment technology in place, you can operate 100% virtually, maintain the rigour of your selection decisions and deliver significant cost savings and efficiencies to the organization. In this webinar, we will share real examples of how virtualizing the hiring process delivers value in terms of efficiency, cost-savings, and candidate experience.

Delivering Efficiency with Virtual Assessment

Human resources professionals have experienced unprecedented changes in the last few years. Faced with an abruptly remote workforce, expectations to improve diversity, emphasis on employee experience, and the tumult of the Great Resignation, HR teams have adopted a variety technologies to help manage their challenges. As workplaces continue to evolve, technology will prove to be even more important for facilitating core HR operations, recruitment, employee wellness, training programs and more.

This panel of HR technology experts will discuss the hot technologies transforming the field, including artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, blockchain, and robotic process automation.

Join us to hear learn how:

-- AI and VR can accelerate the recruitment and hiring process
-- Bots can be implemented to execute common HR processes
-- Interactive apps can help measure and encourage employee wellness
-- Blockchain can securely transmit financial and sensitive information
-- Self-service platforms can improve efficiency and facilitate employee learning and advancement

Moderated by:
David Essex, Industry Editor, TechTarget

Panelists include: 
Charles Handler, President, Sova Assessment
Katherine Jones, Independent Thought Leader and Consultant
Brian Sommer, Founder/President, TechVentive

Technology Brings HR to a New Level

The norm in talent assessment is firefighting; using point-based tests to verify a narrow range of skills and abilities that relate to one position. But the hiring landscape is changing and so are the job roles within it.
             
The most advanced and successful companies have a much more strategic, broader view of the value of talent assessment. This is because when used more strategically, assessment can be the foundation of true transformation, providing robust, objective data about the capability of your workforce. The transformation is greatly accelerated when the data from the entire hiring workflow is integrated into one central platform, allowing you to create engaging and seamless experiences for your candidates and providing you with the insight to hire the best talent.  
             
In this webinar Dr. Charles Handler, President, SOVA, US will share his research and advice for building a streamlined, efficient, and candidate-centric hiring process that transforms your organization’s candidate experience:·      

 - What are the key trends and innovations in candidate assessment
 - Why your HR tech stack is alienating your candidates
 - How to blend science and technology to optimize your hiring process
 - 3 steps you can take to get started

Speaker: 
Dr. Charles Handler is a renowned expert in the field of talent assessment. Now, President of SOVA US, he has spent his career working and advising organizations on how to build effective, compliant talent processes that work. His work also includes an in-depth assessment of market analysis and he will share data from his analysis of over 300 vendors in this space

Transforming Talent Assessment: How to move from Test to Experience

For anyone involved in hiring and developing talent right now, the pressure is on. Pressure to do more with less resource to find, attract and retain the best talent.

But organisations are wasting resources on disjointed, out-of-date, and inefficient talent assessment processes. The result? A complicated tech stack, unnecessary layers of costs, stretched hiring teams, frustrated candidates and talent lost to competitors.  

So, how do you create a new kind of hiring journey that is highly cost efficient, swift and engaging without cutting corners? In this webinar we examine how to make hiring processes highly efficient, with demonstrable cost savings and hire the talent you need faster than ever before.

Plus:

 • Removing data silos and prioritising the candidate experience with all-in-one technology.

 • How global organisations like Vodafone are streamlining their hiring processes at scale and pace with Sova’s Assessment Experience Platform.

 • Freeing up talent teams to engage in high-value activities with candidates and employees.

Finding Efficiency: Reducing costs and optimising the hiring process

Speed and rigour can no longer be mutually exclusive: talent strategy in a volatile market will require a focus on both speed AND rigour, with the balance leaning towards speed. But, how do you ensure you retain and upskill your talent and hire the right people in an unsteady market?

In this webinar our panel of experts, Dr. Charles Handler, Founder of Rocket Hire, Dr. Alan Bourne, CEO & Founder of Sova and Claire Rahmatallah, Director of Marketing from Sova will explore this topic, sharing learning and practical support to help your organisation achieve the right outcomes.

In this webinar we'll be discussing:
- The current talent landscape – what’s changed and how organisations are struggling
- The top talent related challenges in 2022
- How organisations can maintain speed and rigour when hiring
- Robust mechanisms for talent development

Why Speed and Rigour matter in Talent Acquisition

Resourcing teams have always been under pressure to design efficient, effective, engaging and equitable hiring processes. In the light of Covid-19, we should also add ‘resilient’ to that list – the ability to switch between the in-person and virtual elements of the recruitment process.  As organisations navigate a pandemic recovery, there is increased pressure and scrutiny to get the balance right between all these factors without compromise. For example, in pursuit of optimising the efficiency of the hiring process, blunt assessment measures are used to reduce the volume of applications at the expense of fairness; or introducing disjointed assessment stages to make the best hiring decision, only to alienate your applicants with a long-drawn-out process. The reality is that we want to optimise the recruitment process for efficiency, effectiveness, experience, and equity which means using smart, configurable assessment technology, built to deliver all of these critical factors at scale.  In this session, we will explore:  - How organisations are navigating these challenges - How to build a hiring process without the trade-offs - The experiences of a panel of talent acquisition experts, including Nationwide, Primark and Kier Group who have built recruitment processes that work for the organisation and their applicants

Transform the recruitment process for you and your candidates

Inequality and inequity persist across society; individuals from various demographic groups and backgrounds continue to experience lack of social mobility as well as unfair treatment and discrimination. This is acutely apparent in the world of work, where significant group differences remain, in terms of pay, job opportunities and security, and fair and respectful treatment.

But focusing on equality alone is not enough when it comes to assessment and recruitment processes. We need to do more and strive for equitable assessment, where we genuinely level the playing field for all. 

Simple, one-off solutions for promoting diversity and inclusion in assessment also fall short. Effective approaches require the right people, processes, and systems to work together to create meaningful and lasting change. The size of this task can often appear overwhelming, so ensuring HR teams have accessible and practical guidance as to how to turn intention into action is key.

During this panel discussion our in-house experts Hema Bakhshi, People & Culture Director, Dr Alan Bourne, CEO & Founder and Lucie Ilbury, Head of Client Enablement will share tangible actions your organisation can take to optimise your assessment and recruitment processes for ED&I. 

We’ll discuss:

• The landscape – the breadth of the issues that organisations and individuals face. 
• The role of assessment in diversity and inclusion and clarity over the business case for equitable assessment.
• Specific components of the assessment process that can threaten diversity, inclusion, and equity.
• The importance of a strategic, long-term perspective to support meaningful and sustained change.

Optimising your recruitment processes for ED&I

How to effectively role out a global talent assessment digital transformation project. 

Rolling out a global assessment transformation project that’s digital-first that meets the needs of your candidates, and your multinational organisation and is part of wider transformation project to improve customer experience is no small undertaking. The demands on your tech, team and time are all crucial elements to consider when transforming your talent assessment processes.  

However, to ensure the wider digital transformation of your business can be effective you need the right candidates in the right roles, so it’s crucial for the roll-out of your processes and technology to be seamless, to ensure change management is a success and delivers the ultimate candidate experience. 

During this webinar, we’ll sit down with Margarita Echeverria Rengifo, Global Head of Talent Assessment, Vodafone, Simon Defoe, Global Talent Manager, Vodafone, and Dr. Alan Bourne, CEO & Founder at Sova to discuss: 

1. How could talent assessment be deployed and democratised across a global business, balancing consistency with individual market autonomy?
2. How could talent assessment play a direct role in the digital transformation of your company, both in terms of technology and outcomes? 
3. How can assessment support your company’s commitment to diversity that is key to finding the talent you need to transform?
4. How can talent strategy become more closely aligned to your company values and goals?

Talent assessment for a global digital world with Vodafone

The future of recruitment lies in processes which are fair, engaging, virtual yet personal. For large organisations where the talent acquisition function needs to remain at the leading edge of innovation ensuring candidates have a great experience and remaining fair can be a difficult balance to strike. The demands on your tech, team and time are all crucial elements to consider when transforming your talent assessment processes.  

During this webinar we’ll speak to Jenna Alexander, Director of Internal Talent Acquisition at Randstad UK about how they delivered a fully virtual and scalable end-to-end recruitment solution for Randstad’s own hires.  

Randstad is a global leader in the HR services industry and the largest recruitment agency in the world. In 2020, Randstad helped nearly two million candidates find a meaningful job with more than 236,000 clients. Randstad is active in 38 markets around the world and has a top-three position in almost half of these. 

We’ll dig deeper into:

• What a recruitment process fit for the future looks like
• How to create a virtualised, scalable end-to-end talent acquisition process 
• What a future focused, efficient candidate and employee experience means 

Please note, this is a pre-recorded session run in partnership with HR Grapevine

Building a recruitment process fit for the future

Join us for this month’s Sova Middle East Bitesize event, where we will be discussing end-to-end assessment solutions. With technological transformation rapidly changing the world of work, the way we assess for selection and development is leading the way in this area.
We will be joined by assessment experts to discuss how digitalising assessment processes from start to finish can improve assessment accuracy, fairness and the candidate experience, as well as supporting sustainability.
Best practice in change management, to support the implementation and success of end-to-end assessment solutions will also be discussed.

Transforming assessment with end-to-end assessment solutions

In this on demand Sova Middle East Bitesize Series event we discuss diversity and inclusion (D&I) in assessment. We explore how assessments can be used to create diverse teams and organisational cultures, as well as ensuring inclusive contributions and perspectives from the workforce.

Research shows that diverse and inclusive workforces will lead to higher performing organisations and more engaged employees. The discussion will examine these ideas further, with a practical focus on how to ensure sustainability in this area.

Using assessments to create a diverse and inclusive workforce - May 2021

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