PREHIRE ASSESSMENT

How can Prehire Assessment help you?

Making mistakes in hiring at the senior executive level is extremely costly. A poor hiring decision can cost as much as a million dollars or more at the senior level, considering search fees, relocation costs, signing bonus, and loss of team productivity, not to mention outplacement costs and legal fees. Clearly, hiring the right person for a key management position can make a big difference in productivity and profit.

It is not surprising that many companies make very expensive hiring mistakes. Research in the area of selection and hiring has shown that most in-company interviews by untrained managers produce relatively poor results in terms of predicting a candidate's later performance on the job. In fact, the ability to predict an executive's management abilities in such cases is little better than chance.

Turknett Leadership Group's ability to validly and accurately predict an individual's personal characteristics, social and communication style, decision-making ability and management and leadership capabilities, and to assess a candidate's fit with the position and your organizational culture, can greatly increase the amount of objective, reliable information you have on each candidate. As a result, you will make a much more informed hiring decision and avoid very expensive hiring mistakes. We enable you to hire the best person for the job, which will make a big difference in productivity and profit. Additionally, the information we give you on your new hire can help to ensure a faster transition onto his/her new team.

The Turknett Prehire Assessment Process includes

• Position Analysis
• Cultural Assessment
• Custom targeted interview questions
• Leadership Evaluation - a questionnaire assessing personality, behavior, and work styles
• Psychological Interview
• Assessment and Developmental Feedback

Components of the Leadership Evaluation

The Leadership Evaluation uses the results of Turknett's Individual Assessment, a personality assessment that measures leadership traits, to predict a candidate's leadership traits and management style. The results of this assessment are compared to our proprietary database of over 2,500 executives and 550 CEOs. Each of these executives has completed the Leadership Evaluation and has also been rated by an average of 25 of their superiors, peers and subordinates on their management and leadership performance. Using the statistical correlations (multiple regression) between the self-ratings and the coworker ratings, we can predict the coworker ratings for those individuals who take the Leadership Evaluation. Similarly, we predict the type of culture in which the candidate would best perform and compare that to your organization's existing and ideal cultures to find the right culture fit.