METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RECRUIT PERSONNEL
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1. A recruiting system comprising:
- an electronic test administrator to present a test to a candidate and to record at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers to the test; and
a recruiter interface to provide a recruiter with access to the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers, to facilitate manual scoring of the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers and to receive an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice;
wherein the recruiter interface comprises a voice and speech prescreening interface to receive the assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice, and the assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice includes an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s voice quality, articulation, and expression.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus to recruit personnel are disclosed. A disclosed example recruiting system includes an electronic test administrator to present a test to a candidate and to record at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers to the test; and a recruiter interface to provide a recruiter with access to the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers, to facilitate manual scoring of the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers and to receive an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice.
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1. A recruiting system comprising:
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an electronic test administrator to present a test to a candidate and to record at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers to the test; and a recruiter interface to provide a recruiter with access to the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers, to facilitate manual scoring of the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers and to receive an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice; wherein the recruiter interface comprises a voice and speech prescreening interface to receive the assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice, and the assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice includes an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s voice quality, articulation, and expression. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 45)
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26. A method of making a hiring recommendation comprising:
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presenting a test to a candidate; recording at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers to the test; providing a recruiter with access to the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers; receiving an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 44)
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46. A method of facilitating hiring decisions comprising:
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presenting a recruiter with a voice quality grading interface to facilitating evaluating a candidate relative to a voice quality criterion; determining whether to schedule a test session based on the evaluating of the candidate relative to the voice quality criterion; receiving the candidate'"'"'s answers to a written test; automatically scoring the answers to the written test to create an automatic score; receiving recordings of a candidate'"'"'s spoken answer to an oral skills test; presenting the recruiter with an interface to enable manual scoring of the spoken answer; receiving a manual score of the spoken answer; and making a hiring recommendation based on the automatic score and the manual score. - View Dependent Claims (41)
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47. An article of manufacture comprising machine accessible instructions which, when executed cause a machine to:
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present a test to a candidate; record at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers to the test; provide a recruiter with access to the at least one of the candidate'"'"'s answers; receive an assessment of the candidate'"'"'s speaking voice.
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