The right person for the right position:
Consulting for personnel selection processes
How personnel processes can be set up professionally. Consulting case of a public undertaking in the context of Neuwaldegg’s management consulting and development.
An Austrian supervisory and resolution authority is asking itself how decisions can be made on the basis of “objective data” in the context of personnel selection and development. The internal processes for application as well as for professional management and specialist career development are to be professionalised in their methodology in order to find the right people for the right positions or to develop them further accordingly.
Making transparent and comprehensible personnel decisions
The aim of the project is to use a valid test method to obtain meaningful information about the behaviour of people in a professional context, which can be used as transparent and standardised criteria for decisions in personnel management.
Tailor-made requirement profiles optimise personnel development
After screening different psychological test methods, we recommend the use of a scientifically based potential analysis, which shows people’s strengths and potential as well as the learning and development areas in a differentiated way. The special thing about this benchmarking is the way the data is collected. By using specific pairs of comparison question, any conclusion regarding the answers for the required or desired behaviour remains obscure, so the tendency to falsify answers, which is particularly negative in application processes, is largely eliminated.
To enhance the validity of the test results, we work together with human resources managers to draw up tailor-made requirement profiles for the organisation’s personnel selection and development processes. The analysis of the results is therefore criteria focused, i.e. standards are not used to compare or assess people. Instead, the identified behaviours are compared with an internal job or specific role’s requirement profile. This enables a quick comparison of different applications and a clear recommendation to fill vacant positions. In the course of management and specialist career development, the “profile fit” provides valuable information to derive the personal development measures for employees.
Tailor-made personnel management and suitable testing tools
Just as the right person has to be found for the right job, it is important to select a suitable testing tool for the relevant organisation and its culture. It is important that the potential analysis and discussion with an external coach as well as the subsequent handling of the results are experienced as a personal and confidential offer to be able to reflect, which is met with a high level of internal and external approval and acceptance.