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How to Improve Quality of Hire With Online Reference Checking

Learn how new online reference checking allows recruiters, HR executives and hiring managers to uncover and avoid the 5 to 8 percent of candidates who are bad hires. Recruiters using this technology receive:

• Five references in two days for each candidate.
• Honest feedback about the candidate’s behaviors and skills.
• Scores that identify the 5 to 8 percent of candidates who are bad hires.

Improve your HR team’s hiring strategy by obtaining information about behaviors and skills that scientifically predict a candidate’s success for a position. Improve reference-checking efficiency by 85 percent, and improve retention by 4 percent.

Participants will learn:

• How to get five or more references to give open feedback on candidates.
• How to use reference feedback to avoid potential bad hires.
• How to improve reference-checking efficiency by 85 percent.
• How to infuse consistency, reliability and validity into each reference check.
• How reference assessments are scientifically proven.

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Speaker(s)

Mike Bartkus
Vice President
SkillSurvey

Mike Bartkus is a vice president at SkillSurvey, a reference assessment company. He has helped human resources leaders at hundreds of organizations improve their quality of hire, increase their recruiting efficiency and implement best practices for hiring. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as CH2M HILL and hospitals such as Brigham & Women’s. Before joining SkillSurvey, Bartkus held leadership positions with several other technology firms and he has more than 10 years of experience in the field.

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