Using the Living Job Assessment™ to create candidate search criteria no one else will give you
What powerful assessment tools work with our Living Job Assessment to give you the best picture of the job and what a person needs to be like to succeed in that position? All of them do. I have completed the DiSC, Hogan, ProfileXT, and StrengthsFinder to name a few. When I take my StrengthsFinder results top five – Learner is the first on the list. Here is the Gallup definition for the Learner.
“People exceptionally talented in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. The process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them. To put it succinctly, those with Learner among their Top 5 or Signature Themes love to learn.”
It is important to remember everyone is a learner and has had the experience of learning how to do something – develop a skill at something – even learning how to walk. The question the LJA wants to answer is this: When someone is capable of the skill of learning, how does anyone acquire that skill. Some will say it is in the genes and that is correct. The first example of genetically provided learning skill is the human immune system. We do nothing to create it, and until vaccines were invented, we did nothing to deliberately teach it how to protect us from harm. The immune system comes built-in with methods, capability, and a dedication to life-long learning – barring some accident or disease that might damage the system.
How did I learn to play the piano, golf (well it is swing to swing really), analyze a financial statement, or build the Living Job Assessment? What experiences created those skills in me and made them available at my beck and call – to use deliberately whenever I choose to use them?
It is this depth and scope of information we look for in the Living Job Assessment. We want to know what makes the skill the job needs possible – how might we notice in any candidate the precursor events in their life that make it possible they will possess the skills the outcomes of the position demand. We take this approach for hard skills like technical capabilities and to the so-called soft skills like getting along with people. (There is nothing easy or soft about getting along with people).
Contact us for an introduction to how the Living Job Assessment can deliver an understanding of human performance at the molecular level, enhance how you recruit good people, and change the outcome of future events for your organization.
