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Dunstan Arthur, SHL
Using Assessment Tools
to Transform Your
Recruitment Delivery
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AWE - an organisation at the top of its field
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▪ Provide science and technology
services to the Defence sector
▪ Recruit highly specialised
technical staff
▪ Recruit administrators, production
staff, technicians
▪ Established graduate and
apprentice programmes
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Apprentice recruitment - goals and challenges
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Recruit diverse
new talent
Expand beyond
traditional applicant
pools
Bring in fresh talent
Maintain diversity and
inclusion
Maintain quality
of hire
Identify best fit
candidates for the role
Accurately represent
the organisation and
its work
Allow people to make
serious decisions
about their career
choice
Improve efficiency
Reduce direct and
indirect recruitment
costs
Maximise return on
recruiter time
Minimise candidate
drop-out
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Recruiting diverse new talent
How to attract from a wider pool?
With greater appeal to a (mostly) young
audience?
While offering an engaging candidate
experience?
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New recruitment brand
New attraction strategies
Updated recruitment website
More innovative, more interactive
process
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Maintaining quality of hire - becoming Talent Advisors
Bring as much as possible back in-
house
Recruiters become Talent
Advisors – partners to the
organisation, not order takers
Training and development to build
the Talent Advisor skills and
mindset
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Talent
Advisor
Functional
expertise
Advising
with
influence
Building
business
acumen
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Quality of hire and efficiency - innovative assessment
Accessible, intuitive mobile interface to
guide candidates
‘Attractive’ branding and images
Interactive realistic job preview with
personal feedback
Situational judgement test (SJT) for
validity, fairness and candidate-
friendliness
Supports diversity and inclusion
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SHL’s Precise Fit assessment platform
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Job Guide Job Preview AssessmentFeedback
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Achieving impressive outcomes and results
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Recruit diverse
new talent
✓ Wider candidate
pool
✓ Positive candidate
feedback
✓ No significant
adverse impact at
assessment stage
✓ (Females have
slightly higher pass
rate)
Maintain quality
of hire
✓ Realistic preview of
the role
✓ Fair and valid
assessments
✓ Better quality
candidates at
interview
Improve efficiency
✓ Investments in
brand, website,
assessment and
attraction have
improved process
yet cost-neutral
✓ Greater efficiency
and savings on
agency spend have
matched the initial
investment
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Next steps and future initiatives
Rolling out the approach to other
higher-volume roles
Review of ATS and integrating the
workflow
An even more efficient ‘hands free’
operation – freeing up more recruiter
time
Review of interview and assessment
day stages
Further evaluation of candidate
experience and diversity, including
neurodiversity
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Enable and empower the team – be
advisors to the organisation
Start with the needs of the candidate
pool and work backwards
Use technology to encourage
interaction – make it a two-way process
Practical take-away lessons
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