Archive for December, 2009

ProfileSense™ is an employee assessment tool created to provide HR personnel with powerful data to make the most accurate hiring decisions faster than ever before. Unlike current assessment products, ProfileSense™ adapts to your specific needs, allowing you to measure applicants against your “perfect” employee.
ProfileSense is our flagship product that makes it really easy to manage, identify and filter out the best of the best from a pool of applicants applying for a position in your company. ProfileSense makes the difficult and time consuming process very simple and at the same time very effective, providing top notch comparative analysis of applicants in real time, so you can spend more time doing business than finding people. HireLabs recently launched a new version, ProfileSense 3.0 by hosting a webinar on 21st of October that addressed the issue of “Recruiting during the recovery” and received an overwhelming response for registrations from all parts of the world and had an attendance of 500 people watching our show live.

The concept of Occupational DNA was developed on the philosophy that every individual possesses a talent within his DNA. Just like every individual has a unique DNA, they have a unique competency too. ProfileSense 3.0 has been developed on this concept to help employers identify the unique talent that is best suited to the job requirements.

How the concept works:
At HireLabs, the concept is put to work in the following 3 steps:

• Identify the current needs of the position.
• Select the Occupational DNA traits that reflect the needs of your position.
• HireLabs will custom design assessments for each Occupational DNA trait that you selected.

Customized assessments:
Here’s a feature that puts competition aside. Our research shows that the talent assessments did not screen the applicants effectively. This was because generic assessments were used for all types of businesses missing out the importance of 3 major factors:
• Corporate culture
• Industry language
• Local environment.
The user can also suggest more questions, which can be included in the test. Imagine the precision that can be brought to your recruitment process.

Benefits of using ProfileSense 3.0:
Here’s how you can benefit from the system:
• HireLabs has created the most user friendly assessment testing tool for the HR industry.
• The interface is designed to assist you in the entire process of screening.
• Create an account and get ready to start assessing the hundreds of resumes that are in your inbox.
• Create a new assessment, select the occupation you want to test for, There are 4500 occupations you can choose from. Add as many tests you would like the applicants to take.
• Customize to suit your local and corporate culture.
• Finally add the names and email addresses of the applicants who you would want to be assessed and the invitation is automatically emailed to them to take the assessment online.
• You are notified as the applicants complete the tests.
• You can view the graphs and charts to evaluate the performances. The reports are color coded with letter grades A, B, C, D, E and F. This way you can focus on interviewing candidates who got A, B and C, ignoring those who didn’t make the cut.
• Imagine how simple things be if all the resumes in your inbox could just sort themselves out as YES, MAYBE and NO.

I had a chance during the weekend to squeeze out some time to watch tennis. Apart from the obvious thrill of watching the sport, I did have an ulterior motive. Who has an ulterior motive for watching tennis, you ask? And what could that motive possibly be? Maybe it was the concoction of a few sleepless nights with this new brand of coffee I’ve been having; but to me, the match seemed like a competitive arena of recruitment. Now before you start blaming my coffee and lifestyle, give me a chance to explain myself. The match was between the renowned Nadal and the new chap Almagro. Initially Almagro, surprisingly, turned out to be a force to be reckoned with - but then he lost. Reason? Almagro got beaten by the patience of Nadal. The match remained tied for both the players, who won on their serves but neither of them tried to capitalize on the opponent’s serve. Once it was 6-6 down, Nadal broke Almagro’s serve to win the set and changed the score to 7-6. The rest was all Nadal’s show, as Almagro was psychologically beaten. In the remainder of the match, Almagro failed to capitalize on the Nadal’s serves while Nadal continued to tap into his psychological warfare with great success. To add insult to injury, the poor new lad got injured too.
The analogy between the game and recruitment was clear in my almost-coffee-induced-coma head. Just as Almagro failed to aggressively respond to the opponent’s serve, we as recruiters have become so passive during the recession and are literally hoping for things to fall into our laps. Any recruiter can have his share of the pie in the hiring frenzy, but the art is to perform even in bad economic times. The recruiters in recession wait for the clients to come to them and become passive in vigorously seeking applicants due to lack of business in the market. I personally believe that recruiters should become even more aggressive during recession and steal the show. This is the time to pounce; to set you apart from everyone else. This is exactly how Nadal won the game; by being aggressive even at the receiving end. The only way to win the game is to respond at times when its least expected. Economic conditions will only be a hindrance unless people don’t make a move to get rid of it. The economic situation has been further worsened by the people who are a part of it. Blaming the economy is nothing more than an excuse for being passive.
To sum it up, all recruiters need to do is to change their attitude and respond in a better, more aggressive manner, especially now. How? By hiring reliable ATS and talent assessment service providers to create a difference; by seeking candidates to benefit the existing clients; and by looking for more and more clients in this huge market filled with numerous industries