Right People. Right Role.
Too often, you hire someone for what they know – the certifications they have or maybe their past experience. Then you end up firing them for who they are — a combination of their innate work styles and cognitive ability. Hiring is a tricky game indeed. But there’s a better way to play that game.
Many managers think the hiring process starts and ends with a requisition and a general job description.
Job descriptions may tell us a lot about tasks and required knowledge, but they tell us little about the kind of person who will succeed best in that job.
There’s a better way to evaluate candidates—one that’s built on proven science, not just your intuition. Adding PI Job Assessments and Job Targets to your hiring process helps you focus not solely on tasks and skills but on the behavioral traits and cognitive abilities that will ensure a candidate succeeds in your new role.
Create hiring benchmarks before your job ads go up
PI gives you unlimited access to our Job Assessment. Creating a hiring benchmark by using these Job Assessments helps you X-ray each job and identify the underlying traits that will lead to success in each specific role. The Assessment is taken by a group of stakeholders – think of them as your “hiring team” — who are extremely knowledgeable and drive the hiring conversation around the role. Once all the input is given, you’ll generate a job target that will serve as your guide to making a great hire.
Remove bias from hiring
Don’t stop at new hires. Use the Job Assessment to objectively assess all the roles in your organization—even the filled ones. Job Targets should be used as a fundamental part of your talent strategy, helping inform your decisions around succession planning, team building, and employee development.
Develop a Job Library
Don’t stop at new hires. Use the Job Assessment to objectively assess all the roles in your organization—even the filled ones. Job Targets should be used as a fundamental part of your talent strategy, helping inform your decisions around succession planning, team building, and employee development.