When hiring new employees, it’s the proverbial gap between the resume and the interview that has potential to derail a successful placement. Resumes show the facts, including education, past experience and, generally speaking, the best highlights of a candidate’s track record. The interview gives you an opportunity to ask for more detail and get a general sense of the candidate’s disposition.

But neither will give you a solid idea of how the candidate will actually perform in the role for which you’re interviewing. And worse—although a much better predictor of long-term hiring success—you won’t know how the candidate will fit within your corporate culture.

It’s in the gap where you can get a clear picture of a candidate’s thinking style, behaviors and interests. And it’s these factors that determine if a candidate can actually do the job, fit within your culture and have natural interests that are aligned with the role itself.

You can’t make a square peg fit in a round hole.

And you can’t make an employee who doesn’t rank high enough in math skills or ranks too low in pace and decisiveness for example be successful in a role that requires high abilities in each of these categories.

The key to hiring success is matching people with positions in which they’ll perform well and enjoy what they do. And that’s what the PXT Select™ provides. A unique selection assessment, it offers hiring managers:

• A library of job functions with benchmarks to which you can compare your candidates.
• Tailored questions that help you keep an open ear for “what to listen for.”
• A coaching plan to further enhance and maximize your new hire’s value to the organization.
• A full suite of reports that help you select, onboard, coach and develop employees to reach peak performance.

As we ready our companies for a new year, now is a great time to learn how you can revolutionize your hiring process. Watch the video below and learn how the PXT Select™ can increase your retention rate to new levels in 2018.

Need help hiring the right employees? We can help you benchmark your top performers to give you a guide for better hires going forward. Contact Valerie Oldre at 952.470.0162 or email [email protected] to learn more today.