If you’ve ever wanted to know more about those personality tests that recruiters often have you go through, this episode is for you.
Heather is a Stanford trained personality psychologist and Chief Psychology Officer at Traitify, a company working to improve the assessment interview in the recruiting process.
Traitify bills itself as the world’s fastest talent assessment, using images to determine an array of personality traits as opposed to long form questions you may be used to seeing.
With hotels starting to hire again, but so many people having moved on to other jobs (and even other industries), I wanted to get insight on the state of recruiting and how it’s changing based on the effects of the pandemic.
Personality assessments are nothing new to the hotel industry but as difficulties in hiring and recruiting from a smaller pool dominate the news today, organizations who evolve their thinking around the employee lifecycle will be the ones who come out on top.
On this episode we discuss:
About Heather
Heather is a Stanford trained personality psychologist and statistician and the Chief Psychology Officer at Traitify. Here she manages a team that develops personality assessments using Traitify's visual technology and design. This includes designing validation studies and conducting statistical analyses. Additionally, Heather has 15 years of experience in consulting in the areas of survey design, experimental design, and data analysis. She is a member of the APA (American Psychological Association) and SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists).
Links
Website: https://www.traitify.com/
LinkedIn (Traitify): https://www.linkedin.com/company/traitify/
LinkedIn (Heather): https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-myers-phd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/traitify
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