Daves' Tips #11
How can testing improve our interview process?
The success of your business is dependent upon the people you hire. Knowing the skills and experience of each candidate is important. However, skills can be learned, and experience can be acquired.
Research has proven that certain elements of personality remain essentially constant. This core behavior is the foundation of job performance. If these traits, or interpersonal competencies, match those needed to perform a particular job, that job seems to come easily to the person.
If these traits do not match those needed to perform a particular job, the job will seem difficult. It will require additional energy, additional time, or additional support to accomplish it.
Personality assessments are designed to accurately identify such mismatches so that the appropriate actions can take place to ensure effective performance in that job.
Personality assessments provide decision makers with a platform of information about an individual's personality traits, abilities and interests. This platform or foundation of information about the individual is used to assist in:
- Selection
- Coaching
- Succession Planning and Career Management
Management can use this information to influence strategic human resource outcomes by making personnel decisions that can shift the culture of the organization in a desired direction or improve the retention rates of key employee groups.
Some personality assessments allow you to create a customized benchmark using top performers in your company. When hiring, the applicants' scores are compared to this benchmark and behavioral interview questions are created where the applicant falls outside the benchmark.
For more information, or if you would like to examine a sample report, please click TotalView Assessment.
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