Product Updates, Psychometric Testing
Diversity and Inclusion, Talent Acquisition
Why judging candidates on years of experience could be increasing bias in your recruitment.
Diversity and Inclusion, Talent Acquisition
Why SEB chose Alva to join their path to increased diversity
Candidate Experience, Diversity and Inclusion
Why you don’t need a values test in recruitment
Time to focus on the candidate experience
Recently, a debate about tests has sparked in the media. Job seekers speak of tests that they find irrelevant, time-consuming, and hard to understand. According to Alva, the call to action is clear:...
Comparing different types of personality tests
Like in any scientific discipline, there is an abundance of different theories and subfields in the science of personality. The whole idea with science isn’t that everyone should investigate the same...
The benefits of working from home
With the last few dramatic weeks, odds are that your office desk has been exchanged for the kitchen table or living room sofa. We explore some results from research on the effects of working from...
Reducing turnover rates at call centers
Employee turnover is an unfortunate reality in any company, but even more so among call centers. Call centers typically have a turnover rate between 30 - 45%. By comparison, the employee turnover...
Should You Tell Talents They Are Talents?
–Should you tell your employees that they have been identified as talents, and indirectly—that others have not?
How to maximize ROI in recruitment
Human resource management has historically struggled with finding a way to define and calculate the value of an employee. But in order to continuously improve the quality of hires and fill strategic...