Adding Analytics to the “Eye Test”

• How will you decide who is the best fit for the job?
• Do you just focus on skills & competencies?
• Do you go with your gut to determine fit?
• What behaviours would be best suited for this role?

While these qualitative considerations are certainly paramount to making a great hire, would bringing in some quantitative considerations add another layer of confidence to the final decision on who your new team member will be?  Gimme a “heck yeah”!

Determining the Ideal Behaviours for the Role

The first step is to decide what the key behaviours of the role are.  If you haven’t considered a psychometric behavioural analysis, then the time is nigh!  The PDA behavioural analysis is a simple and cost-efficient online assessment that takes about 10 minutes to complete.  It is scientifically validated and is a great way to provide another layer of context and confidence in your decision making.

Okay, You’ve Piqued My Interest.  Tell me More…

1. Determining the ideal behavioral profile for the role.  The first step is to convert your job description into a behavioural profile that would be a theoretical ‘behavioural fit’ for the job.  This isn’t to say that anyone that doesn’t fit this behavioural profile would not be a success in this role.  Rather, it will provide an opportunity to enrich your discussions and provide guidance throughout the interview process.
2. Ask questions based on the ideal profile.  Human Scaffold (HS) can help!  Once the ideal profile is set, HS can help to craft behaviour interview questions that will help to learn more about each candidate’s experience and capabilities that will help them to be successful in the role.
3. Matching the Profile to your final candidates.  Once you have narrowed down your search to your final 2-3 candidates, then you can have them complete the PDA behavioural anaylsis.  The results are instant, and can provide tremendous insight to your final decision-making.
4. Let the discussion begin!  Human Scaffold will help you to interpret the results, then allow you to have final discussions with your interview team to compare the quantitative results of PDA to the qualitative results of the interview process.

The sports world has adopted analytics into the process of deciding as to which talent they choose to build their teams.  The modern-day championship contenders in all sports utilize a combination of the qualitative “eye test”/“gut reaction” to talent, that is supported by analytics.  If you haven’t considered this combination in your hiring process, then perhaps now is the time to act.

You will be surprised by the amount of information, level of detail & insights that will deliver incredible value to the hiring process.  And best part of all, Human Scaffold will be with you every step of the way.