Employee Selection and Development

Drastically reduce employee turnover by hiring the right person for the job the first time!

Are you tired of the "revolving door" when it comes to finding the right person for the job? The story repeats itself over and over again, in every business: "Our new hire had all the right experience, good references, and interviewed like a champ! But here it is six weeks later, and he's not working out. We can't ignore the fact that he's wrong for the job, and we made a hiring mistake. Now we have to start all over again!"

Do you wonder why, try as you may, you just keep missing the mark on hiring the right talent? Determining the ideal candidate for a position can prove to be not only the most frustrating part of the hiring process, but also the most difficult. Each person involved in the selection process will have his or her own idea of what skill set, experience and education is required for the position.

The cost for hiring the wrong person for a position can run as high as 1/2 to 4 times the  employee’s yearly salary and benefits. Employee turnover alone may be costing you tens of thousands of dollars! You can reduce expenses associated with turnover, as well as the cost of employee disengagement, by maximizing the effectiveness of your employee selection process.

Take the guesswork out of hiring and motivating the "right" people for your important positions. Often times the top candidate is determined only by their hard skills, education and experience. Using only subjective means (resumes, interviews, background checks) provides a mere 17% success rate in most industries. A Harvard University study reports that 80% of employee turnover can be blamed on mistakes made during the employee selection process.

While education, experience and intelligence are important, you simply cannot uncover the true picture of human talent without a total person analysis that includes an assessment of behaviors, values and personal skills. The People Smart Tools "Talent Discovery Process" will help you go beyond the traditional resume and interview process when selecting a new employee.  The success rate is high because subjective AND objective means are used to evaluate the candidates!

Here’s how it works.

First we benchmark the job. In essence, we let the job “tell us” its’ talent needs.  “If a job could talk”, it would explain precisely what is necessary to achieve superior performance. We could ask it to tell us about the:

• Knowledge a person needs
• Personal attributes required to drive success
• Rewards for superior performance       
• Behaviors necessary to perform at peak levels
• Intrinsic motivators

But we all know that jobs can’t talk. If they did, we would certainly hear the real story. Instead, we must get the truth from another source—subject matter experts.

The Subject Matter Experts (SME’s), people within the organization that have a direct connection to a particular job, participate in a benchmark process to determine 4 or 5 key accountabilities that are vital to the job’s sole existence. These key accountabilities serve as a reference point that each SME uses when responding to the job assessment, providing their input on performance requirements of the job. 

The SME’s assessments are compiled into one report, the TriMetrix™ Multiple Respondent Job Report which serves as a Job Benchmark for the position. Based on a unique 37-factor analysis, the TriMetrix™ Multiple Respondent Job Report lists the job’s requirements into three separate talent categories: rewards/culture, behavioral traits and job attributes.

• TriMetrix™ Multiple Respondent Job Report sample

Next, potential employees (usually the five finalist candidates) respond to an online assessment.  The TriMetrix™ Personal Talent Report provides objective information about their temperament (how they go about work), values (worldview, the why of their actions) and personal skills (what they are capable of). The Talent Report will identify the characteristics an individual will bring to the job, allowing you to easily determine the best job fit.

• TriMetrix™ Talent Report sample

Finally, match the talent to the job!  The top 5 candidates will have their assessment scores compared to the Job Benchmark (TriMetrix™ Job Report).  They can be easily viewed on the TriMetrix™ Job/Talent Comparison Report and trends will show the top candidates. The TriMetrix™ System allows the hiring committee to replace common biases often involved in the selection process with factual data based on JOB REQUIREMENTS. The right TALENT in the right JOB spells success!

• TriMetrix™ Job/Talent Comparison Report Sample

When you compare the behavioral needs of the job to the natural temperament of the candidate, your chances for a long-term employee who will be highly productive increase dramatically.  It’s like hiring a full time AND a part-time person! People Smart Tool's talent discovery process yields immediate results and provides valuable benefits. Stay on target in the selection process and slow down that revolving door, because hiring the RIGHT talent just got a lot easier!

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taking the fret out of hiring the right person.

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