hiring the right candidate: people skills assessment to identify a culture/group fit dr. jackie...
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Hiring the Right Candidate:
People Skills Assessment To
Identify a Culture/Group Fit
Dr. Jackie KroeningAVC Company
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Agenda
• Maximizing the success of employee selection
• Identify Culture/Group /Manager levels of competency
• Assessment guidelines• Culture/Group assessment• Interview process • Candidate assessment
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Maximizing the Success of Employee Selection
Candidate
CultureWork
Group
Total FitTotal FitValue AddedValue Added
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Assessment Guidelines• Same process and instrument
to assess all areas of the company:– leadership– culture– group– employees– candidates
• Standard definitions for measurement elements:– language– culture– gender
• Standard competency definitions and measurements
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Five Levels of Competency
• Principles• Behaviors• Skills• Process• Techniques
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Principles
• Doing all the right things– Principles are clusters of
personal values– Values are ideals that shape
and give significance to our lives. They are reflected through the priorities we choose, decisions we make, and actions we take.
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Behaviors
• Doing the right things– Converting understanding
into action and translating knowledge into ability
– Walking the talk
I like working with people
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Culture/Group Assessment
• Leadership Competency – Survey Questionnaire– Envisioning Process– Leadership Coaching
• Corporate Documents– Mission Statements– Leadership Speeches– Management Guidelines– Employee Handbooks
• Employee Competency– Survey Questionnaire– Contact Groups
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Example
1. Complementarity2. Congruence3. Adaptability/Flexibility4. Technology/Science
1. Education/Knowledge2. Collaboration3. Quality/Evaluation4. Technology/Science
Culture
Group
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Interview Process
• Identify Candidate• Pre-selection
– Skills, experience
• Interview (Candidate Assessment)– Technical qualifiers– People skills assessment
• Principles• Behaviors
– Culture/group fit assessment
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People Skills Assessment Theoretical proposition
• Principles and behaviors are:
– reflected through the remembered incidents that shape and give significance to our professional and personal lives
– reflected through the priorities that we have chosen, the decisions we have made and the actions we have taken
– revealed through the stories we tell about our professional life experiences
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People Skills AssessmentProcess1. List the principles/behaviors
and their definitions from the culture/group assessment
2. Design an “open-ended” interview question that will solicit a story that contains the desired culture/group principles/behaviors
3. Ask the question during the interview, listen to their story, count the number of times each desired principles/behaviors is present in the story
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Test Case: Culture
• Group exercise • The members of each
table design one open-ended interview question that would solicit the principles/behaviors of the culture
• 10 minutes
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Culture Question
• Tell me how decisions were made and how group members were selected in a technical group project you have worked on in the past where the project was late.
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Culture/Group Fit
• Candidate with the largest count and same priority principles/behaviors is the best culture/group fit
Candidate
CultureWork
Group
Total FitTotal FitValue AddedValue Added
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