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

This webinar will address that which is demonstrably a key factor in determining – in predicting – who will be a quality hire: competencies, sometimes called "soft skills."

This association of soft skill and quality performance makes sense when you think about work colleagues who left their jobs and you remember why they left. Further, the facts substantiate your memory: over 80% of employees who leave their jobs, whether voluntarily or not, leave for reasons of fit. That is, they leave due to a mis-match of competencies required for the job with competencies inherent in the employee.

While this much usually generates broad agreement, there seems to be a common perception that measuring these soft factors is a complex, mysterious and unreliable art. We know about popular versions of personality or type measures – the MBTI comes to mind – and most of us know that 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 skill and success derives from the hard science that explains and demonstrates it.

This webinar will present the hard science, will show why and how it works, and will give specific recommendations for how to implement it. We will even get into some of the myths around assessments and psychometrics and deal with the common fears associated with assessment instruments, tests, diagnostics, and analyses. We will look at how this hard science works both in assessing the job and the candidate – the future high-performing employee.

Participants will gain a clear sense of how to implement hiring and talent management using what science has proven to be the way to ensure the highest likelihood of identifying and employing high quality performers.

HR Directors, HR managers, talent acquisition professionals, talent management professionals

• What is the hard science behind soft skills • Why measuring soft skills gives one of the best methods of identifying quality hires • How to measure these factors in the job as well as in candidates • How to put together a program using the insights and proofs of science to increase the hiring and placement of high-performing employees

See our website (www.matchpointcareers.com) for resources, white papers and so on.

		Paul Basile Matchpoint Careers Inc. View Profile