PXT Select™ Solutions
The benefits of PXT Select™
Without the right processes or tools, finding the right people for the job can be tough. And keeping them engaged can be even tougher. Making talent decisions solely based on a resume, an interview, or current job performance is usually not enough. PXT Select™ provides powerful assessments that will help organizations to plan their talent needs earlier, interview better, hire smarter, and retain longer.
PXT Select uses four simple steps to optimize your talent strategy
Step 1: PLAN | Know the Job
Many hiring managers start the selection process without knowing what their ideal candidate looks like. Whether you’re seeking a senior executive, a mid-level manager, an individual contributor, or a salesperson, PXT Select helps helps you identify the traits and behaviours required to perform a job successfully.
The PXT Select solutions help hiring managers and recruiters align early in the hiring and selection process by defining targets across cognitive traits, behavioural traits, and occupational interests most important to be successful in a position. These targets, also known as performance models, determine the range of scores typical for success in the position you are trying to fill. With these performance models in place, the hiring process is accelerated and the path of employee development is illuminated.
The Recommended Tool for This Step in the Process
Performance Model Report: This report presents the range of scores and behaviours for the position you’re trying to fill. The ideal candidate would score within each of the highlighted ranges below the various traits for Thinking Style, Behavioural Traits, and Interests.
Three Options to Build Your Performance Model
Replicate Top Performers
Build custom performance models to leverage key attributes that distinguish top performers in your organization. Easily spot future hires who share common traits with your most successful people so you know exactly what to look for.
Custom Models
No top performers, but still want a custom model? PXT Select can help you create models unique to your organization and position by leveraging multiple data points.
Performance Model Library
Save time by choosing a model from one of PXT Select’s 150 data-driven industry benchmarks covering thousands of potential roles. You can use as-is or as a starting point for your own custom models.
Step 2: ASSESS | Know the Person
Knowing who to put through the interviewing or selection process can be daunting. Resumes, references, experience, or reputation may look great, but how do you know what’s below the surface? And let’s be honest – selecting someone for a job whether it’s an external hire, or an internal promotion or lateral move, is not an easy task. It takes time to prepare, experience to know what to ask or listen for, and the process can be intimidating if you’re not an expert interviewer. Asking insightful questions is just one piece. Remaining objective and knowing what to listen for is every bit as important. But don’t worry, we can help.
The PXT Select suite of assessments ask candidates to respond to a set of questions to determine their fit to the position. The higher the overall Job Fit result, the better the fit to the role. Hiring managers can reach out to the most qualified candidates and advance them in the selection process. Assessment results include personalized questions to probe for how candidates might respond in different situations, especially in areas where the person doesn’t quite fit the model. This can provide insight that will help hiring managers better assess the fit with the team and organization.
The Recommended Tools for This Step in the Process
PXT Select Assessment
As a comprehensive, “full person” assessment, the PXT Select assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in an organization by assessing their Cognitive Ability, Behavioral Traits, and Interests. The job-matching feature of the PXT Select assessment enables organizations to evaluate an individual relative to the qualities required to perform a job successfully.
PXT Select Non-Cognitive Assessment
The PXT Select Non-Cognitive assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in your organization based on their Behavioral Traits and Interests. It works well when hiring and selecting candidates in situations where cognition has already been pre-established or when cognitive ability is not a job requirement at the point of hiring. Organizations can also use the assessment for onboarding, coaching, strategic workforce planning, and much more.
Customer Service Profile Assessment
This assessment measures how well a person’s customer service-oriented traits fit specific customer service roles within your organization. It also helps you define what outstanding customer service means for your organization to ensure alignment and consistency in how customer service is delivered. The assessment can be used for general customer service positions or tailored for specialized industries, such as hospitality, healthcare, financial services, and retail.
Step One Survey
The Step One Survey is a brief pre-hire assessment and screening tool that measures an individual’s basic work-related values early in the candidate selection process. This assessment provides valid insight into an applicant’s work ethic, reliability, integrity, propensity for substance abuse, and attitudes towards theft – including the theft of property, data, and time. In many organizations, the Step One Survey is the first screen that all applicants must pass before proceeding in the hiring process. By filtering candidates early in the process, this tool saves you time so that you can focus on hiring the right candidates that fuel the success of your organization.
How We Can Help You
Personalized Candidate Questions
Candidate assessment data helps managers address specific questions about their strengths and challenges helping them make the right selection decision.
Reduced Time to Hire
Knowing who to advance in the candidate selection process helps make talent decisions faster and more effectively.
Unbiased Perspective
Leaning on objective data helps you stay away from personal biases during the candidate selection process so you can make talent decisions fairly and consistently.
Step 3: CHOOSE | Know the Fit
Gathering information from the resume and the interview is a great start, but how do you know you’re choosing the right person? Or maybe you have two great candidates, but aren’t sure who might be the ideal match?
Choosing a candidate is a huge responsibility. If you make the right choice, it’s a win. If you don’t make the right choice, it can cost your organization thousands of dollars – not to mention the extra time and effort of recruiting someone new and fixing any damage the “bad” hire left behind.
The PXT Select assessments compare candidate results to the job requirements and provides an overall Job Fit result. The closer the result to the target, the better the fit. With the unique Job Fit feature, PXT Select measures the overall fit to the role across 20 different variables that span Thinking Style, Behavioural Traits, and Interests. This provides unbiased insight across all candidates in the selection process.
Know The Fit
THINKING STYLE:
“Can they do the job?”
Also known as cognitive ability, this is the number one predictor of success on the job. It defines how a person processes information for problem solving, communication, and learning skills. Learn how well the candidate matches the preferred verbal and numerical capabilities for the role. For example, can the candidate understand complex instructions? Can they efficiently make decisions based on complex numerical data?
BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS:
“How do they do the job?”
This portion of the assessment measures a person’s key tendencies and preferences across nine different behavioural traits as a measure for predicting future behaviour. Learn, for example, if a candidate tends to be cooperative and work within the rules, or if they tend to set their own direction and act independently. Does the candidate tend to work at a steady pace, or do they tend to work very quickly? Is the candidate comfortable making quick decisions even when limited information is available, or do they prefer to make decisions more deliberately?
INTERESTS:
“Will they enjoy the job?”
This section helps predict motivation and potential satisfaction with a given job. The more their interests align with what the job requires, the more they will enjoy it. This is critical, because we know that people who are happier in their jobs are more productive, more effective, and more engaged.
The Recommended Tools for This Step in the Process
Comprehensive Selection Report
This report allows you to compare a single individual against the performance model for a given job, and determine how well suited they may be for it. It also includes customized interview questions based on the candidate’s data so hiring managers can interview with confidence.
Sales: Comprehensive Report
This report provides the same benefit as the Comprehensive Selection report, but with a focus on sales positions to help you select the right sales people for your sales team.
Multiple Candidates Report
This report allows you to compare multiple candidates for a single position on one document, so you can choose the candidate who may be the best fit for the role.
Multiple Positions Report
This report allows hiring managers to compare a candidate against other open positions that they didn’t originally know about, or apply for. A great tool for when you are hiring for multiple positions and need flexibility in how to move potential candidates around.
How We Can Help You
Overall Fit
Is the candidate a good fit? What role should a current high potential employee be moved into? How will a candidate or employee fit an existing team? How can a manager and employee work together more cohesively? How can you help your employees become aware of their areas of strength and opportunity related to the jobs they have or want? Use the full suite of PXT Select reports and find out.
Leadership Fit
Wish you knew how the candidate would lead teams, and what their approach is to meeting leadership challenges? Ever wonder about the leadership potential of your current employees? Looking to find out which of your employees could be the ideal fit for a leadership role opening? Use the PXT Select Leadership Report and find out.
Sales Fit
Is the candidate a good fit for a sales role? Every wonder about a candidate’s approach to the following critical sales practices: prospecting, initiating contact, building and maintaining relationships, closing the sale, self-starter, resourcefulness, coachability, team player? Use any of the PXT Select Sales-focused reports and find out.
Step 4: ENGAGE | Know Your People
It takes effort to hire the right people. Keeping top talent requires even more. Our full suite of reports helps managers support new employees to ramp up quickly and effectively. Develop bench strength by getting a full picture of how employees might fit future job assignments or opportunities.
The PXT Select suite of reports helps organizations like yours optimize their talent strategy. Used beyond hiring and selection, PXT Select can help managers onboard, coach, and develop new hires, or develop existing talent in the organization.
The Recommended Tools for This Step in the Process
Coaching Report
This report contains an individual’s assessment results as well as coaching tips about how they may approach different aspects of their role.
Sales: Coaching Report
This report provides the same benefit as the Coaching report, but with a focus on sales positions. It uses sales-related language throughout the report.
Manager-Employee Report
This report compares an individual’s results with those of his manager. Managers often use this to start off on the right foot with new employees, and to build a more effective relationship with them.
Leadership Report
When used for employee development purposes, this report provides insight into a person’s leadership potential and their approach to six leadership skills commonly required of organizational leaders. Each of the six leadership skills are illustrated in relation to the individual’s results, featuring their potential leadership strengths and challenges.
Team Report
This report helps managers and employees address the group’s dynamics in a constructive way. It is designed so that each team member can receive a personalized report, with the feedback written for them. A great tool for teams to understand their similarities and differences.
Multiple Positions Report
When used for employee development purposes, this report shows how aligned an individual is to different positions in the organization that may be part of their career path. Managers can then use this information to help employees prepare for future roles.
Individual’s Feedback Report
This report provides a candidate’s results in narrative form. It does not provide the candidate’s Job Fit results, nor does it make a comparison of the candidate against the Performance Model. Instead, it explains what the assessment measures and provides and interpretation of the results.
Sales: Individual’s Feedback Report
This report provides the same benefit as the Individual’s Feedback report, but with a focus on sales positions. It uses sales-related language throughout the report.
Individual’s Graph Report
This report shows a participant’s results on the Thinking Style and Behavioural Traits scales, as well as Interests, giving a visual representation of the person’s results. Because this report doesn’t provide guidance for interpretation it is highly recommended that it is provided along with the Individual’s Feedback Report.
How We Can Help You
Build Bench Strength
Identify employees with high potential and actively plan their careers and development.
Reduced Turnover
Now that you hired the right people, properly onboard them and help them fit the culture of the team and the organization.
Engage Your Workforce
Accountable employees feel more connected to their employer, and are motivated to contribute above and beyond.
The PXT Select suite of assessment solutions
Whether you’re filling an open role, designing effective teams, identifying talent gaps, or developing your leaders, the PXT Select suite of assessments is your proven solution to fuel the growth of your people and your business.
Summary of Offerings |
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| Assessments | Description | Screening | Job Matching | Onboarding | Performance Management | Strategic Workforce Planning |
| PXT Select | Helps evaluate Job-Fit based on a “full person” view that measures cognitive ability and soft skills | |||||
| PXT Select Non-Cognitive | Helps evaluate Job-Fit based on soft skills and cultural fit | |||||
| Customer Service Profile™ | Helps identify and develop people with the traits and skills to excel in customer service roles | |||||
| Step One Survey® | Helps identify people who are honest, reliable, and hardworking | |||||
PXT Select Assessment
As a comprehensive, “full person” assessment, the PXT Select assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in an organization by assessing their Cognitive Ability, Behavioral Traits, and Interests. The job-matching feature of the PXT Select assessment enables organizations to evaluate an individual relative to the qualities required to perform a job successfully.
PXT Select Helps You:
- Establish an efficient hiring and selection process
- Avoid costly hiring mistakes
- Improve employee satisfaction, performance, and retention
- Assist managers with employee coaching and onboarding
- Identify talent gaps and focus on leveraging employee strengths
PXT Select Non-Cognitive Assessment
The PXT Select Non-Cognitive assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in your organization based on their Behavioral Traits and Interests. It works well when hiring and selecting candidates in situations where cognition has already been pre-established or when cognitive ability is not a job requirement at the point of hiring. Organizations can also use the assessment for onboarding, coaching, strategic workforce planning, and much more.
PXT Select Non-Cognitive Helps You:
- Establish an efficient hiring and selection process
- Avoid costly hiring mistakes
- Improve employee satisfaction, performance, and retention
- Assist managers with employee coaching and onboarding
- Identify talent gaps and focus on leveraging employee strengths
Customer Service Profile Assessment
This assessment measures how well a person’s customer service-oriented traits fit specific customer service roles within your organization. It also helps you define what outstanding customer service means for your organization to ensure alignment and consistency in how customer service is delivered. The assessment can be used for general customer service positions or tailored for specialized industries, such as hospitality, healthcare, financial services, and retail.
The Customer Service Profile Helps You:
- Get an objective look at the skills your customer service organization needs
- Hire the right candidates for customer service roles
- Improve client satisfaction by delivering the service your clients expect
- Minimize the cost of bad hires
Step One Survey
The Step One Survey is a brief pre-hire assessment and screening tool that measures an individual’s basic work-related values early in the candidate selection process. This assessment provides valid insight into an applicant’s work ethic, reliability, integrity, propensity for substance abuse, and attitudes towards theft – including the theft of property, data, and time. In many organizations, the Step One Survey is the first screen that all applicants must pass before proceeding in the hiring process. By filtering candidates early in the process, this tool saves you time so that you can focus on hiring the right candidates that fuel the success of your organization.
Step One Survey Helps You:
- Acquire valid insight early in a candidate’s selection process
- Measure an individual’s basic work-related values
- Assess an applicant’s work ethic, reliability, and integrity
- Reduce the risk when hiring new candidates in a quick and cost-effective way
The PXT Select suite of reports
With their powerful assessment tools, PXT Select can provide your company with a full range of valuable reports to drive results – aligning people to roles based on the traits most important to perform successfully.
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