OPUSBOB: Why Conduct Personality Profile Read Backs with Candidates and Employees?

As most of you that watch these video blogs know, OPUS Productivity is a business providing services that assist our clients in making more informed and hopefully better hiring decisions.  A big piece to that service is the personality profiling tool, and a key aspect is that we take the time to review the results with the candidate. This way they know exactly what the personality profile says.  You would be amazed at how many candidates say to us, “Gee, I’ve gone through this cycle, before but nobody has ever told me what the profile said.  This is really neat.  I’m really interested in knowing what it says.”

Well, why is it a value to everybody? And believe me, we believe it is a value to everybody.  There is definitely a value to the candidates, as they are concerned that maybe the personality profile has said something about them that in no way reflects who they really are.  By hearing the results and being able to discuss the degree of accuracy, or areas that they think it may or may not really capture their personality, the candidate has the confidence that they are being represented in a fair, honest and honorable way.  In addition, the profile review is traditionally an affirmative event.  People get to hear something positive about their behavioral style and of course, that’s a good thing.

It’s positive for the employer as well.  Any behavioral profiling tool that includes a read back session has higher coefficients of reliability.  It provides the employer with the knowledge that the individual that filled out the profile really sees themselves that way.  So the company knows they’re getting an accurate reflection of what the person is.

And lastly, it’s better for the hiring manager. The hiring manager now has somebody that’s connect to not only with them but with the candidate, and can provide them with insight and guidance, not based on a bunch of dots on a page, but based on an actual conversation.  So that’s why we take the time to talk to the candidates.

Thanks for your attention.