It is true, hiring someone can be a time-consuming and nerve-racking task. In an ideal situation, you find the ideal candidate for the position – someone who understands everything immediately, performs well, and helps ease your workload. On the other hand, the worst-case scenario has your seemingly perfect hire turn into the opposite and you have to spend money and time fixing the setback, including finding a replacement. So how can you simplify the process and be sure to hire the right person? Luckily, a tool has been developed to help cut down the time it takes to find the right candidate and to make the right decision: the OAD Survey.
The problem with recruitment is that it tends to be highly subjective and unscientific. Studies done by IO Psychologists have shown that an unstructured interview is the most popular recruitment method amongst Human Resources Professionals. More than 3 to 1 agreed that you can learn more from an informal discussion with job candidates and that you can "read between the lines" to detect whether someone is suitable to hire, using intuition. A strong belief is that the more experienced you are as an HR professional, the stronger your intuition becomes. However, this has shown to be false; intuition is very subjective and not a reliable nor valid method for recruitment.
A solution to this problem is to provide structure to expert intuition and combine it with other decisional aids such as psychology tests like the OAD Survey. This brings a scientific aspect to the unscientific process of hiring. The OAD Survey only takes 10 minutes to complete, it is reliable and valid, helps predict job performance, training proficiency, and even has some dimensions that help predict counterproductive behaviour.
Your hiring process can make or break a business. Why not try to add the OAD Survey to your recruitment strategies the next time you have a position to fill? You may be surprised at how much shorter and more successful your hiring process becomes!