FAQs:
The Careerious team’s 25+ years experience spans from small business to Fortune 500 employers such as Procter & Gamble, Xerox, Coca-Cola and GlaxoSmithKline – a clientele that stretches across North America, Europe, Central America, South America and Asia. This depth of experience helped shape Careerious’ patent-pending hiring tool.
Resumes and interviews alone are relatively poor predictors of employment success. However, your applicants’ behavior is comprised of personality attributes which are valid and reliable predictors of their employment success. Careerious uses behavioral science, which measures both experience AND personality attributes to determine an applicant’s fit with your job, to predict employment success and avoid hiring mistakes.
Here’s a sample Candidate Hiring Guide just like the ones you’ll generate on every single applicant, when you use our service.
Careerious is different both because of what it does – predict employment success
and reduce hiring mistakes – as well as how it does this:
i) You create a JobFingerprint™
job profile which is customized to look like your best employees, so applicants
are compared against your own unique job(s).
ii) Then Careerious uses a sophisticated type of behavioral assessment called a
"normative" assessment to determine an applicant’s fit with your job. Normative
assessments compare people to people (i.e.: an average range of top performer attribute
scores to an applicant’s attribute scores). In other words, Careerious can validly
and defensibly compare people with jobs to help predict performance. Other popular
personality tests focus exclusively on the individual, identifying the relative
strength of individual characteristics within each person – as opposed to comparing
people to jobs (Normative). These tests were built for training, etc. – not to predict
job performance.
Yes. Careerious works well for:
- All types of roles (sales, management, customer service, IT, administrative, etc.)
- All company sizes
- All industries
You are invited to try it completely free for 30 days, then, if you would like to
continue, pay only $99/month or $999/year. It’s the same price whether you’re hiring
one person or one hundred.
Absolutely. Use all the features on our website as much as you want. There are no
restrictions during your trial period.
There’s no catch. We’re so confident in Careerious’ ability to improve your hiring
and help reduce your hiring mistakes, that we’re offering a full refund, plus 10%,
if you’re not satisfied in 90 days, subject to and in accordance with the Careerious
Terms of Service.
We have actually seen the opposite happen. Careerious encourages more top
candidates to apply because it allows these unique people to express their personality,
without having to meet you. Since the assessment only takes about 15 minutes to
complete, those with a genuine interest in your company are motivated to complete
the assessment. Careerious benefits both company and candidate because it delivers
a more accurate job match.
None. Careerious should shorten the hiring process, because you’ll know critical
information about each applicant before spending time with resumes and interviews.
Careerious processes results instantly, so as soon as the applicant completes their
assessment, their results are available.
Not likely. The probability of someone being able to successfully manipulate their
Careerious results are very low. Our process has several advanced internal checks
for (a) intentional distortion (applicant is trying to manipulate their results)
and (b) unintentional distortion (they were distracted or preoccupied when completing
the questionnaire). Questions are also worded in such a way that there are no "right
answers."
No. With Careerious, you can review every single applicant, so we never screen them
from you.
Nope. Careerious does the opposite. We focus on the attributes of top performers
that are critical to success, instead of giving every attribute equal weight. Some
of these attributes may be invisible on the surface, but are very important for
all top performers in a specific job to possess. This means your best employees
can be quite diverse.
Careerious was also created to operate in a multicultural environment, without bias,
where recruiting diversity and employee productivity is very important.
Absolutely! Careerious was built by PhDs and is rooted in the science of Industrial
Psychology, which has shown that people have certain types of stable personal attributes
that consistently predict their behavior at work. For example, people who have a
high need for achievement are more likely to complete work on time and with high
quality. This science has learned how to measure these personal attributes in a
reliable and valid way. The Careerious assessment is based on this scientific foundation
to predict actual work behavior across a wide range of jobs from entry level jobs
to executive leadership jobs.
The Careerious assessment was deliberately and carefully designed to measure specific
personal attributes (dispositions, temperaments and interests) that have been demonstrated
in published personnel selection research to predict actual work behavior across
a wide range of jobs from entry level jobs to executive leadership jobs.
Each item in the Careerious assessment was closely patterned from personnel selection
research to predict certain work behaviors. The close similarity between the Careerious
items and other heavily researched assessments means this scientific evidence of
validity applies equally to the Careerious items. As a result, all suggested decisions
and reported information about candidates are based on highly reliable attributes.
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Yes. Careerious was created to optimize your interviews, which are still a critical
part of your hiring process. Careerious helps by first narrowing down the list of
applicants, then by providing the interviewer with more insight into the candidate
for their interview. Some of this insight is very difficult, if not impossible,
to assess in-person. Careerious helps hirers perform a more focused interview, ultimately
saving time and reducing the overall number of interviews.
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