Press Release: Scored Challenge Labs Reduce Hiring Risks and Costs

With scored Challenge Labs, technical recruiters can accurately assess an IT candidate’s tech skills to reduce business risk and improve their quality hire rate.

Austin, Texas — With scored Challenge Labs, technical recruiters can accurately assess an IT candidate’s tech skills to reduce business risk and improve their quality hire rate.

“The usual methods of validating IT skills—multiple choice assessments, IT certifications and a candidate’s own words—often fail and employers find themselves dealing with an employee struggling to deliver,” says Michael Banta, VP of Product at Cloud Institute.

For IT staffing firms and in-house technical talent recruiters, a bad hire results in higher churn, lost time, lower productivity and added costs. With Cloud Institute’s scored Challenge Labs, there’s now a more accurate way to validate an IT candidate’s skills before making an offer.

“Scored Challenge Labs assess specific IT skills so recruiters don’t rely only on a candidate’s raw knowledge of a subject. Labs measure how a candidate performs specific tasks, such as deploying Azure virtual machines for multi-tier apps and aggregating data by using Transact-SQL,” says Banta.

With the Challenge Labs method for skills validation, candidates show what they know. Cloud Institute now offers over 1,000 ready-built Challenge Labs across a variety of IT topics, including Microsoft Azure, Containers, Cybersecurity, Data Science and many more. There is also an option for clients to create their own purpose-built labs that match an organization’s unique tech stack and job requirements.

Learn more about Challenge Labs for IT Skills Validation.

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Cloud Institute delivers technology coaching, training and skills validation to results-driven IT professionals, teams and recruiting firms. Founded by learning and education industry veterans, Cloud Institute has offices in Austin, TX and is backed by venture capital firm EdTech Ventures.

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