Kenexa interview streamlines hiring processes
By siliconindia staff writer   |   Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 20:30 IST   |    3 Comments
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BANGALORE: January 18, 2005 - Kenexa, a provider of comprehensive human resource solutions, today announced the release of Kenexa Interview Builder, a part of the company’s comprehensive solution for providing HR and hiring managers with competency-based structured interviews. The new Kenexa Interview Builder provides multiple users with anywhere and anytime access to interview questions and resources via the Web. With Kenexa Interview Builder, organizations complete a Web-based job analysis to determine critical competencies for specific job functions and those that are indicative of top performers. Key questions are then identified to successfully measure those competencies and are posted to the company’s Web site for hiring managers to access prior to an interview. During the interview, hiring managers can rate the candidates’ responses to the questions and electronically submit the scores into the Kenexa Interview Builder system for further analysis or retrieval. “Kenexa Interview Builder ensures that all candidates are treated equally during the interview process and that companies hire the best person for the job,” said Troy Kanter, president, human capital management for Kenexa. “By assigning a rating to how questions are answered, Kenexa Interview Builder makes the hiring process truly objective and also forces the hiring managers to intently listen to responses so that they can accurately designate scores.” Kanter added, “When a company creates an interview script, they think they know what they want to hear, but rarely have the data to support the questions they ask. Now, instead of making hiring decisions based on ‘gut’ feelings and personal likes and dislikes, hiring managers and HR can select candidates based on objective data, which also prevents potential legal ramifications and mitigates risk in the hiring process.” Kenexa Interview Builder can be supplemented with a series of ongoing training programs to support the roll out of the solution within the organization and to assist hiring managers in determining characteristics of a good interview. It also provides multiple levels of access to various levels within the organization and has easy to use reporting functionality for comparing candidates.

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