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According to Brandon Hall Research, 95% of hiring managers admit to making at least one poor hiring decision every year.
No one enters a hiring process looking to make a poor decision. The problem is, much of your decision-making process is unconscious. Biases are cognitive shortcuts, tools the brain uses to speed up decision-making when it feels overwhelmed.
There are few leadership situations more overwhelming to your subconscious than hiring.
It is fully aware of the overtime, inefficiencies, unhappy customers and burnt-out staff that increase every day the role you’re hiring for remains open. It is also aware of the pressure you’re feeling to make the right call on who to hire. ‘The pain of the empty chair’ wreaks havoc on your subconscious, influencing everything from what you’ll look for in an interview, who you’ll rule in and out, and even how emotional you’ll get when finally making an offer.
As experts in emotional intelligence, we have taken the power of our WorkplaceEQTM methodology, and applied it to the hiring process. We’ll make you and your team aware of the unconscious programming influencing your decisions, and design a process to mitigate the impulsive effects it may have.
You will never make a clearer or more evidence-based hire than you will with HireEQTM.
Our Values-Alignment tool was designed to do one thing - help you hire people who make those you already have that much better. That’s hard to do when the only diagnostic tool at your disposal is a resume.
A Players make others better. They have the Competence for the job and the Culture-fit to enhance your team. B Players are amazing fits that just need a bit of Training to become rockstars. You don't need us to help you avoid D Players, they tend to stand out.
You do need us to identify the C Players. They look amazing on paper. They sound amazing in an interview. Within months however, your team is barely Tolerating them as they rail against your Culture.
C Players slip through the cracks when you fail to have a proven hiring procedure. A resume is merely a reflection of Competence. Your process must also include a way to measure Culture.
Culture is defined as the values & beliefs that separate one group of people from another. The problem is, few core value statements are injected with enough behavioural psychology to act as an effective hiring benchmark.
We solve that by converting your existing values into our proprietary Functional & Frictional ValuesTM Framework.
There's a difference between someone with '10 years of experience' and someone with '1 year of experience, 10 years in a row'. Our Uncommon CompetenceTM assessment measures applicant's proven abilities to solve the problems you have, instead of matching them to skills you think you need.
Comparing keywords between resumes and job descriptions not only fails to test a person's ability to do the job, it activates your bias when you see a skill you think you 'can't live without'.
By the time you meet an applicant, they will have already gone through multiple evaluation steps with us, ensuring that you are only meeting those worth meeting.
When you do meet, you'll be armed with custom interview questions and detailed assessment reporting on each candidate. No more anxiety about what questions to ask, or what to look for in an interview. We've taken the guesswork out of what many say is the most difficult part of hiring.
Most believe the hiring process ends when the offer letter is signed.
Most are wrong. The first 90 days of any new hire are a minefield of assumptions and miscommunications, putting that new hire at risk of turning over.
To prevent this, we use the data collected on you, your team, and your new hire, to guide everyone involved through an EQ-based on-boarding program. This is something you simply will not find anywhere else.
As their name would imply, CultureSmith got to know our culture intimately, then set about to share our vision and brand with the best talent available. We've hired multiple leaders with their assistance, with each one stepping in immediately to set about to make our strategy a reality. Ultimately, the leadership team CultureSmith helped us build is what allows us to makes a big impact on those we are lucky enough to serve.
With the proliferation of technologies such as LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter all recruiters have the same access to talent.
This increases the risk to the recruiter that a competing firm may send the same applicant on the same role, preventing them from collecting a fee.
Our value proposition is not tied to sourcing, it's tied to selection. The evidence-based methodology we use is 100% proprietary.
Our clients recognize that finding a resume is the easy part. Determining the impact that person will have on the engagement of the team is where the true value lies. Other firms can find people just as fast as we do, they're simply unable to determine fit like we can.
The fact that talent has become open source means that speed is often what determines whether or not a recruitment firm will collect their fee.
As a result, many recruiters work to get as many resumes in front of you as fast as they can in order to "lay claim" to an applicant before another firm does.
Not only does sending several resumes 'protect the fee', it creates the illusion of choice, which activates a powerful cognitive bias. Seeing multiple resumes, with no other data points, actually increases the odds you will hire someone, regardless of fit.
Our entire process begins by making you aware of your biases. This eliminates poor hires, decreasing your risk as well as ours.
Most companies engage more than one agency when they hire, and / or continue with their own hiring efforts to ensure the net is cast as wide as possible.
A belief exists that this makes firms work harder to earn their commission. In reality the increased risk they'll walk away with nothing, often has them limit their effort.
We identify fit so early in the process it removes all incentive for our clients to engage multiple avenues.
Not only that, but our clients use us for far more than just a stack of resumes. The reporting, the on-boarding, the psychology, all of these have standalone value that becomes even more compelling when they're bundled together in one, holistic process.
We've not only applied the science of employee engagement to create our model, we've invested in the technology and processes to apply that science efficiently. You do not need to sacrifice speed for accuracy. We can have you from benchmarking to assessments, to interviews, to offer, in mere days. With HireEQTM you can Find Fit Fast.
of ALL employee turnover is a result of poor hiring decisions. (Harvard Business Review)
is the average cost for every poor hire a company makes. (CareerBuilder)
is the average cost for every GOOD hire that leaves as a result of making a poor hire. (CareerBuilder)