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Recruitment & retention

Free questionnaire helps recruit ‘engaged and committed’ employees

by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2010
by Personnel Today 26 Mar 2010

Assessment company FindingPotential has launched a free psychometric questionnaire which helps organisations to recruit only those candidates who will be highly engaged in their job.

Called Engage, the 10-minute online questionnaire creates an instant feedback report, showing the relative importance to the individual of 14 aspects of work that underpin employee engagement and commitment.

“Different people want different things from their work,” said Ron Eldridge, Managing Director of FindingPotential. “Some want reward, recognition and career progression, others want independence, personal growth and work-life balance. This is an entirely free questionnaire which tells you what will make each candidate feel engaged and committed at work. If you appoint someone who’s needs will be met by the reality of the role, they will be more likely to perform at a higher level and less likely to leave.”

Designed with a contemporary ‘look and feel’, the questionnaire can be used by organisations at the selection interview stage. Individuals can also use it to better understand their ‘personal motivators’ and make more informed decisions if they are considering a career move, a promotion or an internal change of role.

“The questionnaire can pave the way for an open and honest conversation about what is important to each candidate and whether or not the role, the work environment and the organisation will meet their expectations,” said Ron Eldridge. “Essentially, it enables you to start your retention process at the recruitment stage.”

The nine-page feedback report, generated by the questionnaire, summarises the individual’s responses and it can be printed or saved as a PDF. No specific training is required to interpret the results.

Finding Potential has also produced three free workbooks: to help organisations enhance their recruitment process, to help individuals make better career choices and to help coaches use the Engage questionnaire for career coaching.

Engage is the second in a new portfolio of high quality, industry-standard psychometrics that FindingPotential is offering free of charge. The company launched a free, online personality questionnaire in 2009. Later this year, it plans to launch free verbal and numerical reasoning tests, free sifting questionnaires for different job types and a free 360-degree feedback process.

“Any organisation that has been through the pain, the expense and the distraction of hiring the wrong person will appreciate the value of testing but up to now the high cost of assessments has been a significant barrier,” said Ron Eldridge. “Our top quality psychometrics are produced to the same exacting standards as those sold at a premium price but they are completely free of charge.”

Based in Surbiton, Surrey, FindingPotential is a division of TalentDrain, which has been a leading provider of employee engagement surveys and exit questionnaires since 2003.

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