When is the last time you really gave some thought to the position you are about ready to hire??  I know you think about how much money that position is going to cost your company in wages, benefits, and training, but have you given any thought to how much impact that position is going to have on your company??  The Aberdeen Group is a fact-based research company that has done just that.  Here is what they say:

“Without a clear understanding of the roles that drive revenue, performance, and client outcomes within the organization, talent acquisition can be a “ready, shoot, aim” proposition.  If hiring efforts are simply directed toward an open requisition once it lands on a recruiter’s desk, organizations are missing a huge opportunity to make talent acquisition a more strategic process to the business and to optimize investment in candidate relationships.  Aberdeen’s recent talent acquisition study of over 500 organizations and their recruiting practices has shown that understanding what the critical roles are within a company can have a dramatic impact on both the efficiency and effectiveness of hiring efforts.”

The concept of talent management is putting the right people in the right role at the right time.  This is true at the time you hire all the way through career development.  The Aberdeen Group goes on to talk about identifying your Top-Performers and using assessments to create a Model of their critical behaviors and attributes.  Once you understand the critical behaviors and attributes of your Top-Performers, you now have a common language between the business and HR to understand the talent required.  You know also have a basis upon which to assess and filter candidates to determine who is best fit for the role and the organization.

For those of you that have read this blog in the past, the Aberdeen Group couldn’t have done a better job describing the ProfileXT® (PXT).  As you know, it is the most technologically advanced, state-of-the-art system available today for measuring human potential and predicting job performance.  The ProfileXT has been completed by over 600,000 people.  This large, statistical database of results is what everyone taking the PXT is compared.  The PXT assessment first compares an individual against the statistical database.  It can then measure how well an individual fits specific jobs, or specific talent pools, or specific leadership positions, all in your organization.  The “job matching” feature of the PXT is unique, and it enables you to evaluate an individual relative to the qualities required to successfully perform in a specific job or a specific pool of jobs, unique to your company.

This less-than-one-hour, online assessment reveals consistent, in-depth, and objective insight into an individual’s thinking and reasoning style, relevant behavioral traits, occupational interests, and match to specific jobs in your organization.  It helps your managers and you interview and select people who have the highest probability of being successful in a role, and provides practical recommendations for coaching them to maximum performance.  It also gives your organization consistent language and metrics to support strategic workforce and succession planning, talent management, and reorganization efforts.

Best of all, the PXT is extremely cost effective, and the reports are written in plain language that do not require a specialist to interpret the results.  Learn more about the ProfileXT on my website: http://www.royalmountainresources.com/products-and-services/profile-xt .

If you would like a copy of the Aberdeen Group paper on this subject, call or email me today.