Profiling Solutions Blog

THE ANSWERS:

• The right people for your business in their best suited job role.

• Improved employment outcomes through employees that are better suited to your job role and business culture resulting in reduced people management issues, increased staff stability and morale.

• Understanding the potential risk v’s reward of employing an individual for a specific job role or where to start with an employee who is causing you and/or your fellow team members’ grief.

• The profiling process also challenges you as the Business Owner or Manager to stop and seriously consider what you really want from a specific job role rather than just fill a void in your existing structure.

Before we begin it is interesting to note that our profiling solution is job and workplace culture related rather than the traditional personality profile that categorizes individuals into boxes with common characteristics that you are left to interpret. The profiling covers personality, interests, task preferences, environmental preferences in the workplace and interpersonal preferences.

Have you ever had another Business Owner or Manager ring you to be a referee for one of your ex employees? What do you tell them? Are you worried about your reference doing the full circle and coming back to haunt you? Well you are not alone so when you get a reference its not what they do tell you - it’s what they don’t that’s important. When you read resume after resume they all become a blur and everyone sounds good but when you have to separate them out profiling helps and provides meaning and validates referee comments.

Here are some examples – have you experienced any of these traits in your workplace?

• Your applicant is identified by the referee as a non finisher of work and profiling supports the referee’s comment showing that they have a high score for experimenting and a low score for persistence.

• Does the applicant know everything already or is their receives correction score high enough that they will accept your guidance to improve their performance?

• A person that overestimates their contribution to your workplace and wants to be paid more than the value contributed will probably have a high wants high pay score combined with a low self motivation score. This trait when combined with others such as frankness will show behaviours like being unrealistically demanding.

• An individual with a high wants recognition score combined with a low self acceptance score is a nightmare to manage as they are very self critical and rely on others for praise. The twist is they are unlikely to believe the praise or accept recognition so it creates a painful personal pattern that the individual is never happy or fulfilled.

• Would it be useful to know if an individual avoids communication or decision making?

• Would it be useful to know if someone was fast but imprecise- ie being productive although paying insufficient attention to detail before you experience it first hand?

• Most job ads list these traits, takes initiative, wants challenge, enthusiastic, relaxed, manages stress well, optimistic, self accepting & keen on self improvement. How do you really get to quantify those things at interview other than a feeling for the individual based on the time you have just spent with them?

Now that you have finished taking in some of our examples if you have answered yes, yes, yes I can relate to these examples above then we may have a solution for you.

The answers to these dilemmas and much more are available using our profiling solutions. Solutions are available from as little as $154.00 per person for a personality profile based on 12 workplace areas such as interpersonal skills, leadership and achievement.

Or once you have established a Job Success Formula (JSF) for your specific job role at a one off cost of $297.00 (which can be used at no further cost on an ongoing basis), individuals can be screened (job matched for suitability) against this JSF for $88.00 per person.

Like to hear more from our existing clients? Check out our testimonials at the link below;

http://www.profilingsolutions.com.au/testimonials

I would love to hear about your employment challenges and whether you perceive that profiling may have been of some benefit in those circumstances. I invite you to either comment on the blog or email me at mark@profilingsolutions.com.au

Until next time,

Cheers

Mark Bell

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