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Interested
in reviewing your current selection practices to identify opportunities
to enhance their effectiveness?
Looking
for guidance on minimizing legal risks and reducing adverse impact in
your hiring?
Interested in increasing the quality of your hires by using
pre-employment testing but not sure where to start?
SHAPE
Consulting offers a no-cost selection practices audit to review your
current selection practices and identify opportunities to enhance their
effectiveness while minimizing legal risks.
Contact us to arrange for a
consultation.
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At
SHAPE Consulting, one of our core areas of expertise is employee and leadership
selection. We work with organizations of all sizes to develop effective
selection strategies that leverage the most current thinking in the practice of
employee selection, resulting in higher-caliber workers and increased
confidence in hiring decisions.
Many organizations are recognizing that disciplined and scientific selection
will allow them to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Unfortunately, there is a lack of good information and guidance on how to
leverage selection as a strategic advantage. We've developed our service
offerings in employee selection to allow organizations to make better hiring
decisions.
Each of our selection service offerings is
outlined below. As an initial step to evaluate your organization's current
selection system, we also offer
a Selection Practices Audit. See the sidebar at
left for more information.
You want to hire the best talent, but before you can predict
who will succeed in a given role, you need to determine which work
activities and behaviors are required by the job and which competencies are
required to perform those work activities. A simple job description or
hiring requisition is not enough. To maximize the likelihood of selecting
the best talent, those specific competencies most likely to lead to job
success in your organization need to be identified.
We partner with our clients to define what constitutes
successful individual performance through our innovative and unique Success
Modeling Process. We start by utilizing your organization’s vision and
business strategy as the foundation for defining individual success
criteria. Our process also incorporates a multidimensional approach to
comprehensively evaluate the essential responsibilities and deliverables of a
given job, thereby fully capturing what is required to perform well. The
results of our Success Modeling process allow us to determine those
characteristics of greatest importance for the unique positions within your
organization. Success Modeling serves as the foundation for our selection
strategies, which significantly increases the likelihood that employees you hire
have the competencies, skills, abilities, values, motivation, and other
necessary characteristics to contribute to your organization’s success.
Success Modeling can also serve as a valuable guide for your organization's
performance management efforts.
Is your organization interested in incorporating testing and assessments in
the employee selection process, but not sure where to start or how to sort
through the hundreds of offerings in the marketplace? We work with you to
identify appropriate and legally-defensible employee selection tools that will allow you to effectively
determine candidates’ knowledge, skills, abilities, motivation, values, and
other characteristics, thereby ensuring an optimal fit between a candidate
and your organization.
Does your organization have unique selection
needs? Interested in looking beyond off-the-shelf solutions? We can develop
and validate customized assessment tools specifically for your organization.
Employment interviews are essentially assessments, and when they are
developed utilizing scientific principles of assessment and measurement, they are
highly effective predictors of job performance. We develop leading-edge
structured interview processes to identify competencies and abilities
specific to the positions in your organization. We also train your managers
to most effectively interview using these processes.
Organizations are increasingly realizing that thorough assessment and
evaluation of candidates during the hiring process can help them avoid many
of the subsequent performance issues that arise when a bad hiring decision
is made. We’ve developed our Candidate Success Forecast to provide
that additional level of scrutiny. Administered by our consultants with
training in industrial psychology and behavioral assessment, our Candidate
Success Forecast integrates pre-employment testing and competency-focused
interviewing. After assessing your finalist candidates, we interpret the
findings and provide you with close guidance to make your hiring decision.
Our Candidate Success Forecast is a
cost-effective solution for organizations that do not wish to invest in
developing and managing their own formal selection process. If your
organization has low-volume or infrequent hiring, the Candidate Success
Forecast is an excellent way to realize the benefits of effective selection
tools in your hiring process.
Designed to be more comprehensive than our
standard job candidate assessment, our Leadership Potential Forecast
is an in-depth, customized assessment battery which utilizes a series of
state-of-the-art tests and assessments to evaluate leadership candidates
and ensure an optimal match between desired leadership behaviors and an
individual’s competencies. It begins with our Success Modeling process,
which allows us to tailor a leadership assessment for the unique needs
of your organization. Our Leadership Potential Forecast provides
critical information to help guide your organization’s high-level hiring
decisions, and also serves as a highly effective guide for promotion so
that your current and future leaders can effectively handle the
challenges of their roles.
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Click here to see a model of our
Leadership Potential Forecast
Click
here to read
our article on high-level
hiring featured in the
Portland Business Journal |
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