Hire With Your Head, 4th Edition

Chapter 10Making the Assessment Using the Quality of Hire Talent Scorecard

• Keys for Conducting an Evidence-based Candidate Assessment
  • Understanding the 1–5 Ranking System
  • Share Evidence in a Live Formal Debriefing Session
  • Invoke the NO 2s! Rule to Raise the Talent Bar
  • The NO 2s! Warning Signs for Each Factor
• Step-by-Step Completing the Quality of Hire Talent Scorecard
  • Basic Competencies
  • Achiever Pattern and Trend of Growth
• Essential Core Competences
  • Talent and Overall Technical Ability
  • Management and Organization Ability
  • Team Skills (EQ), Staff Development, and Leadership
  • Thinking and Job-Related Problem-Solving
  • Job Fit and Recent Comparable Results
  • Managerial Fit
  • How to Accurately Predict Managerial Fit and Ensure a Great Hire
  • Culture and Environmental Fit
• Addressing the Balancing Act Between Recruitability and Competency
• Organizing the Interview to Maximize Assessment Accuracy
  • Basic Major Accomplishment Question
• Summary

The Performance-based Interview covered in Chapter 9 was designed to capture the evidence needed to assess all of the factors in the Hiring Formula for Success introduced in Chapter 6. The overall summary of how these tools and ideas are integrated is shown in Figure 10.1.

There is a more detailed version of the Quality of Hire Talent Scorecard in Appendix 2. It will be useful to download this as you review this chapter to fully understand what evidence to look for during the interview that best predicts on-the-job performance. Following are ...