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KeenHire’s Assessments

Pre-Employment Assessment

KeenInsight

• Pre Screener
• Mental Acuity
• The Big 5 Personality
•  20 minutes to complete
• Average Cost 25.00-40.00 based on volume
• Annual Subscription available based on volume (unlimited usage)

Mid-level Position Employee Assessments

Personal Interests, Values and Motivators

• Excellent Prelim assessment for key roles (e.g., Sales)
• Six Key Motivators (e.g., social, individualistic, utilitarian)
• 10 minutes to complete
• $85 per assessment

Personal Skills and Competencies

• Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching
• 64 skills and emotional intelligence (e.g., resiliency, self-starter, goal orientation, empathetic outlook, interpersonal skills, personal accountability)
• Identify basic strengths and weaknesses within the candidate’s skills
• Customized Options for Sales, Customer Service and Executive positions
• 10 minutes to complete
• Between $120 – $180.00 per assessment depending on volume

The Job Fit

• Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, coaching and career development
• 6 Mental Acuities
• 10 Personality Factors
• Standardized Benchmarks for 100s of positions (e.g., sales, finance, technology, human resources, management, executive)
• 1 hour to complete
• Between $175-$195 per assessment depending on volume

Executive Level, Leadership & Developmental Assessments

The Innermetrix

•  Hiring, Development, Leadership, 360, RX program
•  Most comprehensive
• Competencies, Behaviors, Values, Emotional Intelligence
•  40 minutes to complete
• Approx $365- $450 per assessment

The DiSC

• Not a hiring tool! Used for on-boarding, communication and team building
• 4 Quadrants of Personality
• Communication Style, Work Style preferences and Job Fit
• 10 minutes to complete
• Approx $62.50 -78.00 per assessment depending on volume and type of report

Not sure what assessment tool is right for you. Learn about selecting the right assessment tool by using our Employee Assessment Consulting Services. Or contact KeenHire to discuss your hiring and performance assessment needs at 888-533-6447.

Employee Assessment Consulting

The employee assessment process involves much more than simply asking a series of questions. There’s a science involved, and that’s where KeenHire comes in. We work directly with your company, asking specific questions about your needs in order to identify what employee assessment tools are right for you. Some of these questions include:

• Have you benchmarked a role with nine to eleven top performers?

• Are you creating a first-rate Top Grading program to attract and hire additional peak performers?

• Do you experience higher than expected turnover?

• Are hiring costs negatively impacting profitability?

• Is a role difficult to fill, or challenging to succeed at?

• Can only a certain type of person with specific traits succeed?

• Are you looking for an assessment that lets you learn about a potential employee and how they can develop to the next level?

• What will most help you make better hiring decisions?

At KeenHire, We Live This Stuff

Performance Management

Within an organization, making certain each role is producing at or above expectations can be extremely time-consuming and frustrating, especially for new managers. We have developed a systematic process for putting the right people in the right jobs, improving overall performance and reducing management inefficiencies. Our philosophy on performance management is this:  hire right, clearly communicate the expectations, train where training is needed, establish accountability check-ins and then get out of the way. Our performance management consultants are experts in the distinctions that will yield the top performance from your people. Our consultants are trained to identify performance gaps and challenges, and to implement systematic performance management tools, methodologies and training programs that elevate your people’s ability to drive and sustain performance.

Talent Strategy And Workforce Optimization

If you have been concerned about how your company can compete for key talent now and in the future, it is imperative to sit down with the business leader and discuss the need to develop a compelling talent strategy. An effective talent and workforce strategy must have more than an endorsement from the CEO. In other words, developing and implementing a competitive and effective talent strategy for the purpose of optimizing your workforce must be an initiative that comes from the top of an organization. Without stakeholder alignment no talent strategy can sustain the test of time.

With four generations in the workforce, emerging industries on the rise, senior level leaders on the verge of retirement or redeployment and a whole new generation entering the workforce, every company who relies on people to deliver a service needs to be working on building competent hiring practices, creating employee development programs and establishing competitive employee retention strategies. While these are all elements of an effective talent strategy they are not the only important factors. Workforce optimization requires a comprehensive holistic approach that includes metrics and measurement in key areas of concern – employee retention ratios and hiring effectiveness ratings, from both the hiring manager and the new employee.

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Boost Performance with KeenHire Labor Problem: Labor data from the US Bureau of Labor Services indicates that 600,000 to 900,000 career vacancies are attributed to the greater-than-average mismatch between the skills employers seek and those that are available in the market. This startling data, coupled with the growing concern for the cost of a mishire is enough to cause a business leader to initiate damage control. Another key factor affecting the employment life cycle is the latest data released from Towers Watson - less than 30% of employees are actually engaged in their work. If these statistics are real, this means 70% of employees are just going through the motions and doing the bare minimum to get by; for a growing organization committed to expanding this simply wont work. Labor Solution: If you want engaged, happy employees you must attract & hire people for jobs that are a good match for their motivations, values, behaviors, and competencies. While you can teach certain competencies to a person capable of learning, you cannot force an outcome with someone who is not interested in producing it. Hire people who are driven internally to do the work you need them to do, in the time frame you need it done, for the type of customers you serve. At KeenHire we call our hiring process Conscious Hiring because it causes both the candidate and the employer to be conscious to what they need and want out of a role.   Labor Problem: A 51,000,000 and growing deficit of available & qualified labor shortage. As more cutting edge opportunities are arising every day, and less people who are qualified and interested in doing the work the opportunities require, companies are scrambling to attract the best and brightest. Many companies are resorting to hefty sign on bonuses or retention packages for the highly skilled, top performing employees. However, many of these same employees who accept the benefits report they are not engaged or excited about the company and the services they provide. They sign up for the role only for the money, and when more money shows up elsewhere with a better platform to display their talents, they are gone. Labor Solution: Know why people come to work for your company and why they stay. Learn about what makes the younger high tech, millennial generation tick, put yourself in the shoes of a Gen Xer and figure out what matters to them, because often what matters to you is quite different. Once you are clear who your ideal employees are and which generation they fall into, craft a Retention Strategy and Employee Value Proposition that attracts and retains the people you need.   Next Step: If you are compelled to position your company as a leading employer. If you are in a highly competitive industry, seeking highly skilled people for customer centric roles and the life of your company depends on the people inside, schedule a Talent Strategy review with one of our Consultants. In 30 minutes, you will identify the biggest areas of concern and be advised on potential solutions.

KeenHire finds the Best Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools

Do psychometric interviewing tools and tests really work? Can you really find the best employees out there by looking at the results from employee assessment tools? Will your sales hiring choices improve if you use some of the online recruiting assessment tools on the market today?

The answer to all the questions above is “yes,” but only if you listen to the expert advice of the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire.

The fact of the matter is that there are a number of different interviewing tools and employee assessment tools available for all companies and all hiring managers to make use of during the hiring process. The problem is that there are so many to choose from that you need to do some serious investigating before choosing which recruiting tools to use.

KeenHire is an Expert in Sales Recruiting Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools
The good news is that the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire are here to help you and reduce the amount of workload you have on your plate by investigating into the many employee assessment tools for you on your behalf.

We make it our business at KeenHire to hunt down new interviewing tools and employee assessment tools and then we test those tools thoroughly before we make a decision about whether or not we would be happy to endorse those particular sales hiring tools in question to members of the public.

Therefore, if KeenHire recommends an employee assessment tool or online interviewing tool via its blog or website, you can be sure that the tool is reliable to use and will deliver excellent results in terms of finding the best of the best for you and your sales company.

The Retention Issue: How To Assess Candidates, Perfect Selection and Retain Top Talent

According To Noah Webster, retention is the act or power of keeping or retaining, but Corporately, retention is the power to keep employees actively engaged and committed to being an integral part of the organization. So what is retention like in this day in age? Are employers on the same page as their employees when it comes to effective performance and talent management?

According to the SHRM Workplace Forecast of 2011, our workplace trends are directly related to talent acquisition, selection & retention. All of these being consecutive to one another and going hand in hand with creating a successful business.

A recent survey on employee performance and retention conducted by Express Employment Professionals, one of the nation's largest privately held staffing companies, found that employers are more disconnected than ever from their workforce. Express' survey revealed that 77 percent of leaders say retention was not a problem or only a slight problem in 2011, while 91 percent of employees said they are willing to switch jobs. These extreme figures should be waking up the employers of our nation, and creating a call to action that something’s not right.

With Employee turn over in the US at 16.4 percent what is there to do? How do you shift your talent management, selection and retention in a way that that increases your profit, your employee satisfaction and turnover?

First of all strong leadership is imperative right now in order to enhance your management operating style, implementing accountability systems, while building and developing high-performance teams.

Talent acquisition can only be beat one way: putting the right people in the right roles. How do we do that? By perfecting selection. Selection can be managed with internally, with a 3^rd party recruiter or using both. Whichever your company decides to go with you must ensure that their skills, personality, and values align with the job and the company. Developing Interview strategies that include pre-established critical screening questions, an in-depth career history review and custom built behavioral interview models prevent the unhealthy corporate impact as well as the high cost of a mis-hire.

Over all the corporate response must be to link employee performance and its impact on the organization’s business goals. Doing this will keep employees goals align with the company’s, creating increasing accomplishment and happier on track employees.

So try something different, create a new hiring process, change the way you interview and beef up your leadership training and finally retain the talent you need. 

To learn more about retention, talent management and see how to create a conscious hiring process, visit us at keenhire.com. We equip companies with systems, processes and people to hire & retain with clarity and insight.

By: Emily Eastman

Cutting Edge Talent Analyst Position Now Open! San Jose

You are a full life cycle recruiter who loves what you do! You experience yourself as a person who operates with a high level of integrity, and you want to work in an environment that rewards your high quality standards and precise candidate recommendations. You are an analytical and service-minded professional with a solid and stable work history, 5 years of expertise in recruiting, and 3 years of selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency. You have well defined organizational and planning skills and a strong desire to make a difference for people in their careers, lives, and workplaces. 

As a KeenHire Talent Analyst you are a key staff person responsible for quality assurance and for delivering in Top Grading and Recruitment initiatives on time and within budget. 

You pride yourself on your solution-oriented behavior; your critical thinking skills and your excellent follow up and follow through as well as your highly effective talent evaluation and matching skills. You enjoy a highly productive, fast paced work environment where you have to juggle multiple priorities daily to meet your customer and candidates’ needs. You thrive in a role where you are the ultimate quality assurance person responsible for making an organizational impact, achieving quality standards and strengthening customer relationships. 

We are KeenHire Talent Management; we provide the next generation of recruitment and retention solutions to growing organizations where hiring the RIGHT mission critical, key contributor and leadership talent for the right roles is imperative to their success. We are growing and need the right person to work as an integral part of our team and act as a key contributor in this very important Recruitment, Project Management and QA role.

The ideal opportunity for you is one that you are challenged at every day, where you get to continually learn new concepts, skills and processes and one that allows you to work with a team of committed individuals who are out to make a difference and shift what is possible in the workplace.

You enjoy working in an upbeat, inspiring office with a committed team. You are excited about the monthly opportunity to travel and grow your career. The ideal role for you for you allows you to play to your strengths, be a ‘go to’ team member add value and make a difference for your customers and peers. 

Job Requirements 

• 5+ years full cycle recruiting
• 3 yrs selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency 
• Excellent phone voice
• Persuasive communicator
• highly attuned analytical skills
• MS Office

Get excited about a career with KeenHire! Click HERE to apply now!

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