Guy Barel
How to Assess and Hire Talent: The Skills-Based Hiring Playbook for the AI Age
#1about 4 minutes
The limitations of traditional resume-based hiring
Resumes are an inefficient and biased predictor of job success, a problem made worse by AI-generated content.
#2about 1 minute
Shifting to a skills-based hiring model
Focus on evaluating a candidate's actual abilities and potential rather than their resume credentials for better hiring outcomes.
#3about 3 minutes
Designing effective job simulations for different roles
Create role-specific assessments that mimic real-world challenges for developers, data analysts, and client-facing positions.
#4about 1 minute
How job simulations improve the candidate experience
Job simulations provide a fair and transparent process that gives candidates a realistic preview of the role, boosting engagement.
#5about 2 minutes
Addressing cheating and leveraging AI in assessments
Use proctoring to prevent cheating while also designing assessments that test a candidate's ability to use AI tools effectively.
#6about 2 minutes
Why technology makes skills-based hiring accessible now
Modern AI-powered platforms make it fast and scalable to generate, score, and manage job simulations for any role.
#7about 1 minute
Balancing AI automation with the human touch
Use skills assessments to efficiently screen candidates so you can focus valuable interview time on the most promising talent.
#8about 3 minutes
When to implement assessments in the hiring process
Deploy assessments either at the top of the funnel to screen all applicants or after a recruiter call to qualify interested candidates.
#9about 1 minute
Integrating existing assessments into modern platforms
Digitize your company's existing assessment content onto a modern platform to gain benefits like automatic scoring and anti-cheating measures.
#10about 2 minutes
Key tips for designing a great job simulation
Create assessments that mimic the job, test both hard and soft skills, incorporate AI capabilities, and are a reasonable length.
#11about 1 minute
Integrating assessments with your applicant tracking system
Connect your skills assessment platform with your ATS to manage the entire hiring workflow from a single, centralized system.
#12about 1 minute
The expected outcomes of using job simulations
Implementing job simulations can significantly reduce unnecessary interviews, shorten time-to-hire, and decrease the risk of mis-hires.
Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Featured Partners
Related Videos
23:15The Day After the Robots Come. Tech Edition.
Bill Boorman
26:04HR ROBO SAPIENS: Decoding AI Agents and Workflow Automation for Modern Recruitment
José Kadlec
25:46Gen AI will replace Job Boards, are you ready?
Leah Daniels
21:41Recruiting with Soul & Smarts
Jens Echterling
39:34Recruiting in 2025: Will AI Help or Take Over?
Rudi Bauer, Jan Tegze
23:17Code meets Culture: Engineering the Future of Hiring
Sophie Okonkwo
32:21How Technology Is Impacting the Recruitment Ecosystem
Malcolm Myers
22:425 Interview Myths Busted: Is Your Thinking About Interviews Outdated?
Shiran Danoch
From learning to earning
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Content Expert, Artificial General Intelligence
Jobs for Humanity
Municipality of Madrid, Spain
XML
HTML
JSON
Python
Data analysis
+1
Senior - AI Engineer
Predictable Machines
Municipality of Las Palmas, Spain
API
GIT
Kotlin
Docker
TypeScript