A method of aiding a decision-maker in deciding whether to hire a candidate for an employment position, comprising:
- (a) creating position criteria assessments by:
- i) selecting one or more position criteria and assigning a weight to each, and
- ii) assigning numerical values to measurements of each selected position criterion;
- (b) creating benchmark behavioral and values characteristic assessments by:
- i) selecting one or more top performers in said position and assigning a weight to each,
- ii) selecting a behavior characteristic predictive instrument wherein a subject's answers to questions within it yield a raw score along at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum of possible scores indicative of a behavior characteristic,
- iii) obtaining answers to said behavior characteristic predictive instrument from said one or more top performers and calculating therefrom a behavior-characteristic-raw-score along each said at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum for each top performer,
- iv) deriving a behavior-characteristic-weighted-average of all behavior-characteristic-raw-scores for said at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum,
- v) for each said at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum, partitioning said behavior-characteristic-continuum into at least two intervals and assigning a numerical value to each interval, such that for every pair of adjacent intervals, an interval of such pair which either includes said behavior-characteristic-weighted-average or is closer to said behavior-characteristic-weighted-average than an other interval of said pair is assigned a numerical value which is greater than that assigned to said other interval of such pair,
- vi) selecting a values characteristic predictive instrument wherein a subject's answers to questions within it yield a raw score along at least one values-characteristic-continuum of possible scores indicative of a values characteristic,
- vii) obtaining answers to said values characteristic predictive instrument from said one or more top performers and calculating therefrom a values-characteristic-raw-score along each said at least one values-characteristic-continuum for each top performer,
- viii) deriving a values-characteristic-weighted-average of all values-characteristic-raw-scores for said at least one values-characteristic-continuum,
- ix) for each said at least one values-characteristic-continuum, partitioning said values-characteristic-continuum into at least two intervals and assigning a numerical value to each interval, such that for every pair of adjacent intervals, an interval of such pair which either includes said values-characteristic-weighted-average or is closer to said values-characteristic-weighted-average than an other interval of said pair is assigned a numerical value which is greater than that assigned to said other interval of such pair;
- (c) obtaining candidate-specific information by:
- i) taking position criteria measurements of said candidate's strengths according to each selected position criterion,
- ii) obtaining answers to said behavior characteristic predictive instrument from said candidate and calculating a raw score for said candidate along each said at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum,
- iii) obtaining answers to said values characteristic predictive instrument from said candidate and calculating a raw score for said candidate along each said at least one values-characteristic-continuum;
- (d) deriving candidate fitness level scores by:
- i) computing as a position-criteria-fitness-level score a weighted average of numerical values assigned to said position criteria measurements,
- ii) for each said at least one behavior-characteristic-continuum, assigning as a behavior-characteristic-continuum-fitness score the numerical value assigned to the interval within which said candidate's behavior-characteristic-raw-score falls,
- iii) computing as a behavior-fitness-level score an average of all said behavior-characteristic-continuum-fitness scores;
- iv) for each said at least one values-characteristic-continuum, assigning as a values-characteristic-continuum-fitness score the numerical value assigned to the interval within which said candidate's behavior-characteristic-raw-score falls,
- v) arranging all values-characteristic-continuum-fitness scores in descending order of the behavior-characteristic-raw-score from which they were derived, and assigning a weight to each values-characteristic-continuum-fitness score based upon its position in said order, and
- vi) computing as a values-fitness-level score a weighted average of all values-characteristic-continuum-fitness scores;
- (e) computing an overall candidate recommendation score based upon a formula that includes said position-criteria-fitness-level score, said behavior-fitness-level score, and said values-fitness-level score as variables;
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- (f) presenting to said decision-maker a report containing indicia of said overall candidate recommendation score.