Have you ever hired someone who did not meet your expectations? Have you ever hired someone who exceeded your expectations? Chances are high that you have done both!
Why Use Employee Assessments
Research has demonstrated that the level of job satisfaction an employee experiences is directly related to the quality of the job fit. It has also been proven that unexpected turnover is very often a function of job dissatisfaction. The MuRF Systems Employee Assessments are designed to maximize the capability of a company to accurately fit an individual to a job. These assessments are effective in accomplishing this task for three important reasons.
- The first is that they measure the level of satisfaction and the reason(s) for dissatisfaction throughout the entire organization.
- Second, the MuRF Systems tools enable you to dig further into the perceptions of individual leaders held by their circle of influence.
- Third, the MuRF Systems tools allow an organization to identify potential candidates who have the workplace qualities that have been proven to predict both success and satisfaction.
These three areas are what the experts indicate will make or break the workplace of today and the future.
Assessments Offer a Solution
- Historically, employers depend upon resumes, references and interviews as sources of information for making hiring decisions. in practice, these sources have proven inadequate for consistently selecting good employees.
- When training employees, a “one size fits all” approach has failed to provide the desired results.
- Clearly, an essential ingredient for making “people decisions” has been missing from the formula.
- The use of assessments has become essential to employers who want to put the right people into the right jobs; provide employees with effective training; help their managers to become more effective; and promote people into positions where they will actually succeed.
- The use of assessments has resulted in extraordinary increases in productivity while reducing employee relation problems, employee turnover, stress, tension, conflict and overall human resources expenses.
- Several factors contribute to the failure of traditional hiring methods. Resumes often contain false claims of education and experience while omitting information that would help employers make better hiring decisions.
- Business references are of little value because most past-employers will tell you nothing but “name, rank and serial number.”
- These realities are the reason interviews have become the most influential factor in the hiring decisions.
However, experience shows only a coincidental correlation between the ability to deliver well in an interview and to deliver well on the job. Studies peg this correlation at 14%-- one good employee for every seven hires! Even background checks don’t help much. The success rate jumps to 26%, but that’s only one good hire for every four. Unfortunately, many employers have accepted these poor results and the high cost of excessive turnover as a business reality. They have flown the white flag of surrender.
Don’t surrender! Employee assessments help significantly: Assessing behavioral traits improved the hiring success rate to 38%. When both the cognitive abilities and behavioral traits were assessed, the right people were hired 54% of the time. When the assessment of managerial and leadership tendencies is added, the success results improve to 66%. The most impressive results are achieved, however, when an integrated assessment is used--one that measures behavioral traits, cognitive ability, and management/leadership characteristics. These integrated assessments successfully identify potentially excellent employees better than 75% of the time! When you “benchmark” internal performance and systemize your hiring, the odds are even greater!
The only reliable method for evaluating “Candidate Match” is with a properly designed assessment instrument, capable of measuring the essential job-related characteristics particular to each position. MuRF Systems has the assessment instruments designed for THAT purpose.
