What Really Matters in Quality of Hire: Hard Science of Soft Skills

1:30pm EST, January 26, 2012

What is the key factor in determining a quality hire? How do you determine if a candidate’s competencies, or “soft skills,” are a good fit?

The association of soft skills with quality performance makes sense when you think about work colleagues who left their jobs. More than 80% of employees who leave their jobs, voluntarily or not, leave for reasons of fit. They leave due to a mismatch of competencies required for the job.

While this statistic usually generates broad agreement, there seems to be a common perception that measuring these soft factors is a complex, mysterious and unreliable art. We’re familiar with popular versions of personality or type measures, such as the MBTI, and most of us know there are quack versions of soft skills assessments. But those realities don’t change the fundamental, repeatable truth that soft skills signal success.

Our confidence in the relationship between soft skills and success derives from the hard science that explains and demonstrates it.

This webcast explains the hard science, shows how and why it works, and gives specific recommendations how to implement it. We even discuss some of the myths around assessments and psychometrics and deal with the common fears associated with assessment instruments such as tests, diagnostics, and analyses. We look at how this hard science works both in assessing the job and the candidate. Participants gain a clear sense of how to use this science to ensure the highest likelihood of identifying, and employing, high quality performers.

”What Really Matters in Quality of Hire” presented by Paul Basile, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Matchpoint Careers, Inc., developer of the online solution for scientific recruiting and job-person matching.