KeenHire to Launch KeenView™ Behavioral
Interviewing & Selection Software at Upcoming HR Technology Conference
& Expo
First software solution designed to
improve recruitment & selection and eliminate bad hires in high tech sales,
engineering and leadership positions
Chicago, IL – September 12,
2008 – KeenHire, a
full service talent management solutions firm announced today that it will
debut its behavioral interviewing & selection software solution at the
upcoming HR Technology Conference & Expo in October put on by Human
Resource Executive magazine. The product
has also been entered into the Annual Top Human Resource Products contest.
KeenView is a proprietary, web-based software solution for
human resource executives, hiring authorities and executive recruiters in the
high tech industry. The system employs
job benchmarks, scientifically proven assessments, and behavioral interviewing
and selection best practices that reduce the time, cost and negative impacts of
making a bad hire. The solution ensures
that high tech sales, engineering and leadership jobs, as well as the ideal
candidates, are well defined – diving deep to include not just the required
skills and experience, but also values, behaviors and cognitive abilities that
must be present in the right candidate.
Last year, employment turnover cost the U.S. economy a
trillion dollars. The estimated costs of
hiring the wrong person for the job run from three to seven times a person’s
salary. “This is especially true in high tech. Making a bad hire isn’t just an inconvenience. It can devastate an organization, resulting
in lost sales and alienated customers,” stated Margaret
Graziano, KeenHire’s founder.
“That’s the primary reason why 64% of companies today say that
addressing the talent shortage is their number one objective,” Ms. Graziano
continued.
KeenView helps companies define its fundamental purpose for filling a job by identifying the key performance indicators and core functions for the role, then determining how the ideal candidate will think, interact, solve problems and get the work done. Additionally, the program allows you to ascertain how your candidate is motivated - which if matched in the appropriate role, leads to employee satisfaction and an improved customer and team experience.
Developed as a software as a service, (SaaS) KeenView is a
customizable database of 450 targeted interview questions, 25 core behaviors
and 5 behavioral modes: thinking, interacting, acting, motivation and
leadership capacities. The output is an
accurate determination of whether the candidate has the ability to operate
within pre-defined behaviors. Unlike
other products that do not promote or empower the end user (the hiring manager
or high tech recruiter) to build their own questionnaires, KeenView offers the
flexibility of adding specific industry, company or role related questions to
customize each interview for the job.
“The person you’re about to hire may bring the skills & experience you need, but if he isn’t likely to function well on a team or fit into your leadership and succession plan, and you don’t use a behavioral interviewing model to find out, you could be headed for disaster. High tech companies committed to winning the war for talent are implementing systems and operating practices that leverage their ability to attract, select & retain the best. That’s where targeted selection and KeenView make a huge impact. Employing these best practices ensures discerning hiring choices and improves hiring batting average by 85%,” Graziano concluded.
About
KeenHire
KeenHire delivers talent selection solutions to corporate leaders and
executive recruiting professionals whose businesses depend on making the right
hire the first time. Using a set of carefully developed and proven job
benchmarking and assessment instruments combined with proprietary behavioral
interviewing software, KeenHire clients eliminate flawed hiring procedures,
accurately assess the performance of potential new hires, free themselves from
costly hiring mistakes, and bring difference makers to the table with
unprecedented success. For more
information please visit www.KeenHire.com.
