Best Practices in Screening and Assessment

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    1. Best Practices in Screening and Assessment: How Today's Leading Companies Are Leveraging These Tools Presented by: Charles A. Handler, PhD, President/Founder: Rocket-Hire.com October 16, 2007
    2. Introduction to Rocket-Hire
      • Vendor selection specialists and experts in the use of technology to add efficiency and effectiveness to the hiring process. Publish only Buyer’s Guide for this market.
      • Focused on helping clients understand the ROI associated with strategic staffing tools.
      • Focused on ensuring legal defensibility of selection processes.
    3. Objectives for Today
      • Focus on providing useful information about assessment and its value proposition
      • Provide info on best practices for use
      • Cover the following topics
        • Understanding prediction
        • Screening vs. Assessment- A process focus
        • 3 steps to success
        • Questions
    4. Qualification questions Knowledge & Skills Tests Behavioral Interviews Resume Evaluations What Assessments Tell Us Future Performance Job Fit: What do they want to do? Environment Fit: Where do they want to work? Personality Measures Ability Measures “ What can they do?” “ What do they want to do?” “ What have they done?”
    5. Informed Decision Making
      • When you have an important decision to make what do you do?
      Do your homework Consult experts for information Use information to make predictions Evaluate the effectiveness of your decisions and learn from the results
    6. Understanding Prediction
      • Define performance requirements and desired outcomes
      • Measure these requirements in applicants
      • Use results to support decision making
      • “ Close the loop” Evaluate the accuracy of your decisions vs. outcomes
    7. Understanding Predictive Accuracy Job Performance Predictor Content O Predictive Accuracy Moderate Predictive Accuracy Job Performance Predictor Content High Predictive Accuracy Job Performance Predictor Content
    8. Validity
      • Synonymous with accuracy
      • That is, does the test measure what it is supposed to?
      • Major types include Content and Criterion
      • Choice of type depends on contingencies
      • Is essential for ROI and legal defensibility
      • Validity is taking on new characteristics as new assessment models proliferate.
    9. Sourcing Screening Testing
      • Outcomes
        • Retention
        • Performance
        • Promotion
      Traditional Test Validation Modern Best Practices
    10. Best Practice Assessment Methodology Step 1: Build a solid foundation Step 2: Measure and evaluate applicants Step 3: Close the loop- evaluate your decision making
    11. Step 1: Build a Solid Foundation
      • Accuracy and effectiveness is not possible unless you clearly understand the requirements of the position.
      • This requires due diligence to fully understand and document all job requirements and desired outcomes
      • Ideally this should be linked to an organizational competency model or set of key performance drivers
      • This step is the foundation for both legal defensibility and systematic accuracy
      • This step is the one that is most frequently given the least attention
    12. Practical advice: Conduct a Job Analysis
      • Job analysis is a systematic study of the requirements related to a specific job or position. It can take many forms but all must have the following elements:
        • Input from incumbents and supervisors
        • A performance model that aligns job duties with key outcomes
        • Documentation demonstrating the method used to collect data
        • A plan for translating data collected into Predictor measures
        • This information can be used to link selection to other key HR functions such as performance management and development
    13. Step 2: Measure and Evaluate Applicants
      • The goal here is to take job analysis information and use it to create a set of predictors that are designed to measure key performance drivers. In order to be effective these predictors must::
        • Be solidly linked to job analysis output or competency requirements
        • Be used systematically, treating each applicant the same
        • Be used as only 1 part of an overall decision making process
        • Be staged so that they create a process
        • Provide easy to understand output
        • Be applicant friendly
    14. Hiring is a PROCESS
      • Effective use of assessments requires multiple measurement tools implemented in correct sequence
      • Effective assessment is a process not a “test”
      • An integrated, process focus represents the BEST PRACTICE
    15. Think “Process” not “Test”
      • At the end of the day effective selection is not about basing selection decisions on the result of just one test. Instead selection must be looked at using a process focus in which:
        • Multiple data points are collected and used by trained decision makers
        • Each step in the process has been aligned with key job performance drivers and this can be documented
        • A platform can be used to allow decision makers access to full range of candidate information
        • Successive steps in the process create value by focusing more deeply on qualified candidates
        • The effectiveness of the overall process is evaluated using hard data
    16. Recruitment Advertising (Providing) Final Decision Making Qualifications Screening (Processing) Unqualified Predictive Screening (Predicting) Unqualified Structured Interview Screening Out Screening In All Applicants Qualified Applicants
    17. The Players pt. 1
      • Sourcing Tools
      • -Employment Brand
      • -Career Site
      • Screening Tools
      • -Resume review
      • -Qualifications screens
    18. The Players pt. 2
      • Testing
        • Skills/Knowledge testing
        • Personality testing
        • Cognitive testing
        • Values matching/Fit
        • Biodata
        • Simulations
      • Interviewing
        • HR interview-competency focused
        • Technical interview
      • Verification
        • Reference checking
        • Background checking
    19. Step 3: Evaluating selection decisions
      • I refer to this as “closing the loop”. This is the only way to clearly demonstrate the ROI associated with a selection process. It is a critical part of any selection plan because it:
        • Documents job relatedness and therefore provides legal defensibility
        • Provides a business case for HR to gain credibility
        • Provides clear links between predictors used and key organizational outcomes
        • Can be used to diagnose key problem areas
        • Is part of a broader business intelligence strategy to evaluate the entire recruitment and selection process.
    20. Summary of Evaluation Methods
      • Criterion related validation studies
      • Recruitment process analysis
      • Meeting key business goals
      • Business intelligence
      • At the end of the day you must ask: “What information is meaningful to us”
      • This should be both a strategic and tactical question
    21. Outcomes of Accurate Prediction
      • Short Term
        • Better hiring decisions
        • Achievement of technical goals
        • Achievement of immediate business objectives
        • ROI
      • Long Term
        • Building an employee brand
        • Keeping valued assets
        • Building organizational knowledge base
        • Leveraging strengths for the long run
    22. Practical Advice: Evaluate Your Process
      • Closing the loop requires a systematic comparison of predictor scores with data on key organizational outcomes. Steps required include:
        • Collecting predictor data for all selection measures of interest
        • Comparing this data to clean, objective measures of employee performance
        • Documenting the relation between predictor scores and job performance
        • Using this information to refine selection criteria and thresholds
        • Investigating this relationship on an ongoing basis
        • Creating documentation for both legal and business case purposes
    23. Take Aways
      • Assessment is not a “no brainer”
      • It’s worth the effort
      • Best practices demand attention to 3 key steps
      • The outcome of an assessment is only as good as the process in which it is used
      • Process evaluation is essential
      • Choosing a vendor should be the result of a careful evaluative process
      • Questions and Discussion

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