Talent Management

Talent Management

Whether you are hiring new employees or promoting current employees, our Talent Management services can help you select, manage, develop and retain key people in your organization.

The secret of sustained performance excellence lies in matching the right people who possess the right capabilities and behaviors to the right jobs.

> Can you improve your methods for selecting and promoting employees?
> What skills does your business need to be successful in the future?
> Can you easily compare an external applicant with an internal candidate?
> How certain are you that your existing talent pool differentiates you from your competitors?

Essential Tools for Talent Management

Job Profiling
We use world-class tools through SHL and DDI to help your organization:

• Define and design job roles
• Generate competency models
• Identify strategies for selection and development
• Improve the interview process
• Choose assessment methods for selection and promotion
• Match people to jobs
• Build the foundation for performance management systems

SHL Online Competency Profiler (OCP) 
SHL Work Profiling System (WPS)  
DDI Success ProfilesSM: Card Sort 

Ability Screening and Testing
Recognized as the single most effective method of predicting job success, ability tests measure a candidate’s current ability and future potential. Using ability tests as part of your recruitment and development process ensures you’re getting the right people into the right roles in your organization.

Through partnerships with a number of human capital organizations, we have access to an extensive portfolio of ability tests to help measure ability across all departments and in all levels of an organization.                      

Personality Assessments
Measuring skills and abilities is only one part of an effective assessment process. Personality tests can give you an insight into a candidate’s work styles and behavior, and using them as part of your recruitment and development strategy will help you select and retain the best staff for your business.

SHL Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) 
SHL Customer Contact Questionnaire (CCSQ)
SHL Work Styles Questionnaire (WSQ)

360 Degree Feedback
360° feedback provides a structured framework to enable you to undertake in-depth assessments of employees against business critical behaviors. Being able to view an employee’s work styles and behaviors from all angles gives you a more objective and broader perspective of performance and means you can be confident placing people in the areas where they will be most effective for your business.

SHL Multi-Rater Feedback System 

Behavioral/Competency Based Interviewing
Interviewers make the best hiring decision when they gather meaningful, job-related information from applicants. Each job has inherent, distinct responsibilities, so each job has a unique set of competencies-behaviors, knowledge, and motivations that are needed to be successful in the job.

Essential Interviewing SkillsSM
Targeted Selection®

Strategic Partners

• For more than 30 years, SHL has led the way in applying the science of psychometrics to improve the performance of people through objective assessment. SHL offers the world’s largest portfolio of measurement tools.
   
• PreVisor is the union of best-of-breed assessment organizations including Qwiz, ePredix, Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, Brainbench, Talent Technologies (formerly PSL Australia), CraftSystems, Performance Technologies International (PTI), and ASE Solutions. With over 80 years of combined experience, PreVisor offers nearly 1,000 pre-employment tests and selection tools covering most jobs in most industries, through a single platform.
   
• Development Dimensions International helps organizations systematically and creatively close the gap between today’s talent capability and the people that will be needed to successfully execute tomorrow’s business strategy.
  DDI excels in two areas:
  • Designing and implementing selection systems that enable you to hire better people faster
  • Identifying and developing exceptional leadership talent critical to creating a high-performance workforce.
   
• Performance Assessment Network (pan) is a state-of-the-art, web-based system for the distribution, administration, and analysis of professional assessments, tests, and surveys. Pan is distinguished by both its wide range of products and its web-based, e-testing process, representing a network of over 35 of the top assessment publishers in the world.
   
• Sterling Infosystems, Inc. is one of the largest pre-employment background and drug screening firms in the country. Its technology platform enables delivery of the quickest turnaround times in the industry while also providing the most cost effective solutions. Its new Sterling Student product allows colleges and universities to have their students screen themselves and pay for their own background checks before admission into select schools or internships.

Contact Information: 
        Nan Whitsel
        whitsel@uakron.edu
        330-684-8784