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A problem for candidates
and hiring managers is their reliance on resumes as a
major source of information for making sound candidate
selection decisions. Valid assessment instruments, especially
those that are specific to workplace behavior such as
the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies' WorkPlace Big
Five Profile™, assist in candidate quality identification.
Workplace specific assessment tests transform "soft" or subjective
applicant information into a "harder", more objective, more structured
form required to identify good job fit, pre-qualify applicants, and direct them
to the top of the appropriate resume pile.
Résuméfit's Integrated Evidentiary Résumé System™ significantly
improves both the candidate's ability to represent themselves, and the hiring
manager's ability to select a quality candidate. Candidate Fit Indices™ (CFI™)
measure a candidate's career experiences, education, skills, workplace traits,
and competencies against the position description being applied for.
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How Employers, Hiring Managers, and Recruiters Can Benefit
By Using Assessments
1. Reach more objective hiring decisions
During the recruitment and selection
process, subjective elements such as emotions, intuition,
and "gut feelings" always have been and will be very
important. However, if used excessively or exclusively,
it becomes a fault resulting in bad hiring decisions.
Unfortunately, most hiring decisions are often made within
the first 5 minutes of an interview and are based on
emotions, biases, personalities, and stereotypes.
Scientific assessments such as the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies' (CentACS) WorkPlace Big Five ProFile™,
assist you in making a quality hiring decision based on objective data and reason,
not primarily on emotion. You can greatly increase your odds of hiring success
by using Résuméfit's state-of-the-art, integrated assessments.
Résuméfit's Integrated Evidentiary Résumé System™ reveals and measures
the total
person.
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2. Reduce cost of new hires
Scientific workplace
assessments developed by CentACS assist hiring managers compare candidate
scores with top performers and better match candidate skills with the requirements
of the job thereby avoiding the costly exercise of hiring unsuitable people.
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3. Reduce turnover
Employee turnover
can cost as much as 2.5 times a person's annual salary plus the hassle of
re-hiring and training. Résuméfit's Integrated Evidentiary
Résumé System™ (IERS™) helps hiring managers match the right
people to the right jobs
and then manage them according to their workplace style, allowing you to
reduce turnover substantially.
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4. Improve productivity resulting in increased profits
A very accurate "thermometer" for measuring job fit is how you feel about going to work in the morning. Employees are going to be most satisfied when they can be themselves and don't have to put on an act. Happy employees are productive employees, and productive employees can increase an organization's profitability. Employees are happiest when they are a good fit for the job. Scientific assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies show strengths and weaknesses of individuals and organizations as a whole, and can help select people who can move mountains as well as scale them.
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5. Increase employee retention
Two out of every three
employees would rather work somewhere else for someone else. People with
good job fit, performing work in their flow zone, think, talk, and act differently
from their average or poor performing associates. Résuméfit's
Integrated Evidentiary Résumé System™ (IERS™) can help you identify
the right workplace traits and behaviors in your new hires, resulting in
employees
who stay longer and produce more for you.
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6.
Build effective organizational teams
Reasons to use the
WorkPlace Big Five ProFile™ with teams:
1.
It provides a common vocabulary to
discuss individual differences.
2. It helps individual team members to understand themselves better.
3. It gives each team member more understanding of the other on the team.
4. It provides teams with explanations for their group dynamics and behaviors.
5. It assists team members in planning strategies for capitalizing on strengths
and minimizing weaker areas.
CentACS' WorkPlace Big Five ProFiles™ help evaluate the traits, abilities,
and compatibility of team leaders and team members to improve team performance
and dynamics.
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7. Decrease the cost of training
We have more or less
assumed that we could make anyone into anything if we
just worked with the person long enough or hard enough. Studies estimate
that 90 cents of every training dollar is wasted because most employees
don't apply what they've been taught when they return to their jobs after
training. We're finally beginning to learn that not all workers take equally
well to all training. Human Resource Optimizer (HRO), developed by the
Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, addresses the crucial question: Does
the performer possess the appropriate raw material (ability and traits) to
support development of the competency? HRO can identify the ideal mix of Big
Five traits and other talents for yielding high performance training. HRO
will be available in a future release of Résuméfit's Integrated
Evidentiary
Résumé System™.
Résuméfit saves you the time and cost of hiring the wrong person
for the job, and then having to train replacements.
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8.
Increase sales
Why is it that 20%
of sales forces produce 80% of sales? For one, not everyone is a natural
salesperson. Additionally, people are motivated by different means. Résuméfit
will help you identify candidates with the skills, interests, and motivations
associated with being a top salesperson and being part of the 20% of salespeople
that produce 80% of sales.
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9. Improve employee morale
Candidates hired for
the right positions have increased job satisfaction and morale. Résuméfit helps
you ensure that you hire the right people in the right jobs.
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10. Reduce employee lawsuits
Résuméfit's
Integrated Evidentiary Résumé System™ (IERS™) provides you with
objective data. In the absence of objective data, you can not demonstrate
that a hiring or a promotion decision was made objectively. You can be sued
for discrimination. One-third of businessess will be sued this year over
employee issues.
Structured interviews, background screening, reference checks and behavioral interviewing are very subjective processes and have been used for decades, but have traditionally failed to deliver solid long-term results. In fact, most hiring decisions are made in the first five minutes of an interview. Assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies provide you with the objective data you need to make quality, lawful, hiring decisions.
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11. Manage more effectively
Assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS) give you a thorough understanding of your fellow associates' styles and traits. Scientific workplace assessments give you a closer look at your staff's capabilities, capacities, styles, behaviors, and compatibilities in order for you to manage more effectively. Hire and retain the best people for the jobs; train and manage them according to their own styles and traits, using information from scientific assessments specifically designed for the workplace.
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12. Save time and money
Half of a manager's time is spent trying to fix people problems. Using scientific assessments developed specifically for the workplace developed by CentACS, you will better understand the personality and behavioral traits, and thinking - learning styles of your staff. This information will enable you to identify and solve potential people problems faster and with greater success.
The time from when employers realize they've made a mistake in hiring until they resolve the situation is about a year. That's a long time, which costs you a lot of money, to put off the inevitable.
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