Research shows that only 25% of recruits in the UK actually turn out to be effective employees. 75% of recruits are wrong.
Many businesses have sophisticated and multi-staged recruitment processes but fundamentally they are looking at the same thing, experience - what has someone done before and how similar is it to what we want them to do here.
At Chemistry, we believe that experience is the least important thing to assess. It is the easiest thing to change about someone, plus doing it well somewhere else doesn’t mean you’ll do it well here. This may seem obvious, but many recruitment processes fail to look at anything else.
For Chemistry, there 4 other key areas that will determine how well someone will perform in a new role:
- Intellect - do you have the right 'engine' to do the job?
- Values - do you share the beliefs of the company and role?
- Motivations - will the company and role motivate you?
- Behaviours - how do you do things? Does your style of work fit with the role?
The key ingredients for accurate assessment
- Determine what is needed in terms of Intellect, Values, Motivations, Behaviours and Experience. Understand the necessary and the ideal.
- Find ways to measure all these areas during assessment
- Compare the individual’s attributes with the necessary and ideal. Are they good enough?
Measurement of these elements is just the first stage - great assessment then compares candidate’s attributes with the ideal for the company and role. This process can then identify key areas where the candidate will be effective and areas where they will have difficulty - a strong position from which to make a hiring decision. In fact, research shows that assessment done in this way means 75% of recruits are right.
