SELECTION, HIRING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Key to your organization’s long-term success is the selection, hiring and retention of first-rate talent. When filling leadership and management positions, the ideal is for the firm and candidate to enter into a mutual long-term commitment. However, for such a commitment to be workable and mutually successful, a good candidate-position match is crucial. Today’s market is highly competitive for premium talent and employees are an investment that warrants careful research. Hiring should be a practical and data driven process, with the most responsible positions given the most thorough and careful pre-hiring assessments.

Every company knows the costs, in dollars and disruption, of hiring a key executive and having the individual leave after a brief period of time due to inadequate assessment of the candidate or ill thought out matching of candidate with position. Such mismatches create multiple problems including those which derive from the position being vacant, from resultant operational disconnects and added costs, and from the additional search costs necessary.

“Poor hiring shows up not merely in poor decisions but also in poor morale. When the less competent employees reach critical mass, their low performance standards become the de facto standards of the organization. The longer established employees who are well equipped for the job
abandon their old high standards and conform to the new, lower ones.”

- Frank Schmidt, Ph.D.
University of Iowa

Our approach to candidate selection is a data driven and focused one that allows for effective matching of the candidate’s characteristics with the strategic needs of the available position and the organization.

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