{"id":32471,"date":"2015-10-23T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2017-10-17T10:09:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T17:09:41","slug":"codility-smartrecruiters-interview-less-and-hire-more-technical-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/codility-smartrecruiters-interview-less-and-hire-more-technical-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Codility + SmartRecruiters: Interview Less and Hire More Technical Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiring developers is a challenge for recruiters. Resumes do a bad job conveying a developer\u2019s actual coding skill. And if you need to hire a lot of developers, you need to wade through a lot of bad resume data. To hire without headaches, you need a system to understand how good developers are and to arrange piles of resumes into a useful order to start your interview process.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, what is the best way to assess coding skills? The traditional way of asking developers to write code on a whiteboard is usually a bad idea. First, there\u2019s a limitation on how complex you can go by writing on a whiteboard. Second, developers want to be assessed on their skills in a normal coding situation: they generally don\u2019t like to be put into unusual social situations where they have to write code on a whiteboard, in a way that doesn\u2019t match any normal coding process. Developers want to be assessed on their skills in a normal coding situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now there is a smarter way of assessing coding skills. Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.smartrecruiters.com\/product\/codility\/\">new partnership between SmartRecruiters and Codility<\/a>, you can trigger online coding assessments to your candidates in seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Enter Codility to solve your developer hiring headaches<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/codility.com\/?utm_source=blogpost&amp;utm_medium=blogpost&amp;utm_term=smartrecruiters&amp;utm_content=smartrecruiters&amp;utm_campaign=smartrecruiters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Codility<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes finding candidates and testing their\u2019 coding skills and coding behavior simple. By using Codility before you go through the time consuming task of interviewing candidates you can:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoid sending people who can\u2019t code to your development team and wasting their time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start your interview process from the best coders first, reducing your time-to-hire by up to 70%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How Codility Works<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Codility creates and maintains a curated library of programming tasks. You pick the tasks that match your recruitment needs and send them to your candidates to complete online. Codility then automatically assesses the resulting code to filter the candidates with the best coding skills.. You get a clear score back for each candidate and you can choose to start interviewing from those who score the best!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s the best of both worlds &#8211; your candidates get to do what they love: to write a piece of software in a normal environment instead of being trapped, sweating at a whiteboard.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-1.19.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32474 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-1.19.34-PM-305x144.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-10-16 at 1.19.34 PM\" width=\"305\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-1.19.34-PM-305x144.png 305w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-1.19.34-PM-200x94.png 200w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-16-at-1.19.34-PM.png 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So far Codility has given well over 2 million code assessments and we help companies like Sony, PayPal, EA, Nokia, Samsung, MIT and Intel with their hiring<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>With Codility you test fundamental coding skills<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A great technical hire is someone who is a good programmer at their core and can apply their skills to any problem or task. After all, you don\u2019t want to end up with someone who can luckily pass your company specific test but then can\u2019t code your next project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Deploying Codility tests inside SmartRecruiters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Codility is excited to partner to SmartRecruiters. Our passion is narrow but deep: automated programming skills assessment to deliver a great experience to candidates and boost your productivity. SmartRecruiters shares the same passion: their TA platform delivers an unparalleled mobile and social candidate experience that\u00a0engages hiring managers along the way, supercharging recruiter productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Our partnership allows you to make Codility tests an integral part of your hiring process in SmartRecruiters, empowering\u00a0recruiters to automatically trigger assessments and see the test results right from the candidate profile page inside SmartRecruiters. Easy, simple, no sweat required!<\/p>\n<p>You can either send a candidate an assessment directly from the candidate&#8217;s profile page, or incorporate assessments into your workflow. Check below three easy steps to have Codility as part of your hiring process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assessment-Steps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assessment-Steps.png\" alt=\"Assessment Steps\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assessment-Steps.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assessment-Steps-305x172.png 305w, https:\/\/www.smartrecruiters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assessment-Steps-200x113.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>1.<\/strong> In the hiring process page, add \u201cSkills Test\u201d as a new step. Remember that Corporate plan customers\u00a0have the convenience of creating a specific hiring process for combinations of org fields. In other words, you can specify a workflow with for the Engineering department in France if you\u2019d like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2.<\/strong> After adding the new step, click on the gear icon on the upper right part of the icon. A new page will open where you can choose you assessment vendor and test. Choose \u201cCodility\u201d and select the test you prefer to be added to your hiring step.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> \u00a0After hitting &#8220;save&#8221;, Codility assessments will be automatically triggered to you candidates, without any headaches. You can follow up the status and results of the assessments in the lower right hand corner of your\u00a0candidates&#8217; profiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Like the idea but need some more insight?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about using Codility in SmartRecruiters <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marketplace.smartrecruiters.com\/product\/codility\/\">here,\u00a0and have a Codility expert contact you<\/a> t<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o run you through the system and\/or put you in touch with other users to talk about good practices!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>####<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article was written by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephencroome\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Croome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Codility, who helps tell the story of a company which helps you understand how good a developer really is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hiring developers is a challenge for recruiters. 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