Assessments
Typically,
companies depend upon the traditional résumés, references and interviews
as a means for making hiring decisions. In practice, these sources have
proved inadequate for consistently selecting good employees. When selecting
staff for promotion, sometimes excellent employees get miscast into roles
they cannot perform satisfactorily. Clearly, an essential ingredient for
making "people decisions" has been missing from the formula. The use of
assessments has become essential for companies who;
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want to put the right people into the right jobs •
help their managers to become more effective;
and •
promote people into positions where they will succeed.
The
use of assessments has resulted in extraordinary increases in productivity
while reducing employee turnover, stress, tension, conflict and overall
human resources expenses. These realities are the reason assessments are
becoming the most influential factor in hiring and promotion decisions.
Assessments do help significantly
Assessing behavioral traits increases the hiring success rate to 38%.
When behavioral traits and thinking skills are assessed, the right hire
is made 54% of the time.
In addition, when occupational interests are assessed, the proper hire
increases to 66%. However, when an integrated assessment is used that
measures "Job Match", the success of hiring an excellent employee increases
to an astonishing 75% of the time. Our career assessments employ cutting-edge,
adaptive technology and data to assess the traits of "The Right Hire."
In doing so, Adaptiqs can analyze the individual skills of candidates
compared to the skills of employees who perform their duties in a superior
manner. These adaptive assessments successfully identify potentially excellent
employees better than 98% of the time.
Job Match clearly is the factor that outranks all other traits and considerations.
A study published in the Harvard Business Review concluded that "Job Match"
is the most reliable predictor of effectiveness on the job. The study
also considered many factors including: age, sex, race, education and
experience of approximately 300,000 participants. It evaluated their job
performance and found no significant statistical differences, except in
the area of "Job Match."
Conclusion:"It's not experience or references
or college degrees or other characteristics that determine an exceptional
employee; success hinges on a fit with the job." The only reliable
method for evaluating "Job Match" is with an Adaptiqs designed career
assessment instrument, capable of measuring the essential job-related
characteristics particular to each specific job. Adaptiqs is your solution
to achieve "Job Match" in your search for the right employees.
