When it comes to hiring, traditional recruiting services can provide a temporary solution. Recruiters often emphasize speed, efficiency, and the need to fill a role quickly. To do this, recruiters will focus primarily on the common hard skills like education and experience.
While recruiters may find someone with the right qualifications, the question remains—is that person truly the right fit for your team? This is where many leaders find themselves stuck—hiring someone who looks good on paper but doesn't work out in the long run.
After all, quite often, employees are let go for deficits in their soft skills (e.g. not a good fit, clashing personality types, etc.).
When organizations experience a failed hire, the financial impact can be shocking. A 2024 Business.com article stated that the reported cost for making a bad hire is around 30% of the employee’s salary. So how do businesses avoid this pitfall?
The Hiring Process Coach™ isn’t just about hiring someone to fill a seat; it’s about investing in your organization’s future by finding the right fit—someone who embodies the values, qualities, and vision you need to take your company forward.
Finding the right people for your job roles is critical to your success. Moreover, when a person is hired and it turns out she or he is not a good fit, problems tend to cascade down from the role to the team.
It is fair to say that not making the wrong hire is just as, if not more important than finding the right person.
In this blog, you will read and understand the key differences between Job Recruiting and The Hiring Process Coach™ so you can decide for yourself if Hiring Process Coaching is the best option for your next hire.
Job Recruiting or The Hiring Process Coach™: What Are You Really Looking For?
As a business leader, you need someone who not only has the right skills but also fits your company culture and can work effectively with your existing team. You know each hire matters and finding the right person is the key to reaching your company’s goals.
However, the traditional recruiting approach can sometimes feel like a band-aid solution—a way to quickly fill an empty seat without truly considering whether the new hire will thrive in your environment.
Recruiting services focus on finding candidates who match the basic requirements of the job—such as education, experience, and skills—and presenting those candidates to you, the person hiring for the job.
It’s a process focused on speed and efficiency. For many leaders, this approach leaves something to be desired. You want someone who will be the right fit long-term—someone who can help drive your company forward.
The Hiring Process Coach™ recognizes this challenge and steps in to provide a more holistic approach. It offers an opportunity to evaluate not only the technical qualifications of a candidate but also the motivations, personality traits, and potential challenges they may bring to the role.
By doing so, it helps you identify the ideal candidate and build a foundation for success.
The Hiring Process Coach™ service is here to guide you through the complexities of hiring, providing the tools and expertise you need to make informed, long-term hiring decisions.
The Components of The Hiring Process Coach™ Journey
As the client, you deserve a partner who will walk with you every step of the way—ensuring your hiring decisions are not rushed or misguided, but intentional, thoughtful, and grounded in a deep understanding of what your organization needs.
Here’s how The Hiring Process Coach™ becomes your guide and how its approach differs from traditional recruiting:
Leader Assessment
The first step begins with executing a self-discovery on the hiring manager, and identifying the role within the organization at large. This helps the coach guide the hiring manager through the process with certainty in both the particulars of the position and interpersonal qualities that would make an ideal fit for the team.
The Job Scorecard™
In any journey, it’s important to have a map guiding you toward your destination. In hiring, that map is the Job Scorecard.
A Job Scorecard outlines the role in detail—highlighting responsibilities, expectations, and outcomes. It ensures there is no misunderstanding about what the role entails and what success looks like. It provides clarity, not just for the new hire but also for the rest of the team, so everyone understands how the new role fits into the bigger picture.
With The Hiring Process Coach™, you are guided to create this Scorecard, bringing stakeholders into the process and setting up the new hire—and the entire team—for success.
The Avatar: Defining the Ideal Candidate
In every job role, there should be a vision of what success looks like. In The Hiring Process Coach™, this vision takes the form of an Avatar—a fictional representation embodying the ideal traits, skills, and qualities of the person you are looking to hire.
The Avatar helps you go beyond the typical job requirements of education and experience. It allows you to define the character and personality that will thrive in your organization—giving you a clear picture of the ideal candidate.
Multi-Science Assessments
Next steps include an in-depth evaluation that goes far beyond the surface to discover the true potential of a candidate. These multi-science assessments include:
- Workplace Behaviors: To understand behavioral tendencies—how the candidate communicates, interacts, and works under pressure.
- Workplace Motivators: To understand what drives the candidate—what makes them passionate, motivated, and engaged.
- Personal Skills: A science-based assessment designed to reveal an individual’s capacity or bandwidth based on their worldview and lens into their present environment.
- Cognitive Capability: To assess critical thinking skills—ensuring the candidate has the raw intelligence necessary to execute the duties of the role at the right level.
Unlike recruiting services that might use a single-science assessment, these multidimensional tools provide a comprehensive understanding of the candidate, enabling you to make informed decisions that consider not just their skills but their ability to integrate into your team and your culture.
By assessing both the candidate and the hiring manager, The Hiring Process Coach™ helps create a cohesive environment where everyone understands how to communicate effectively—setting the stage for a successful partnership.
The Hiring Process Coach™ vs Recruiting
Traditional recruiting services focus on finding candidates who meet basic qualifications. They present you with options, often in a short period of time, and expect you to choose the best fit.
While this approach is efficient, it lacks depth, and it frequently leaves you wondering—is this person really the right fit for the long term?
The Hiring Process Coach™ goes beyond this transactional approach. It uses science-based data to identify candidates who not only meet the basic requirements but also embody the critical thinking skills, motivations, and personality qualities needed for success.
Because this assessment process begins with clearly defining the job role, The Hiring Process Coach™ exceeds any regulatory mandate requiring assessments to be linked to role success.
It’s a comprehensive process designed to give you confidence in your hiring decisions, providing you with insights to help you understand not just what the candidate can do, but how they will thrive in your organization.
The Hiring Process Coach™ Challenges
The Hiring Process Coach™ requires time and commitment from stakeholders—assessments, scorecards, and discussions all take effort.
Additionally, the results of the assessments reveal potential obstacles that require attention and effort to overcome. However, these challenges are an opportunity for growth, providing you with a more complete understanding of how to move forward, or how you and your new hire can be best set up for success.
Is The Hiring Process Coach™ Right for You?
The Hiring Process Coach™ is not for companies simply looking to fill a seat. It’s for leaders who want to build a culture of excellence, and who are willing to invest time and effort to ensure each hire is the right fit.
Choosing the right people to hire is no easy task, and making the wrong choice can have lasting financial and cultural consequences within the organization. The Hiring Process Coach™ can be your guide to ensure these critical hiring decisions lead to a thriving, cohesive, and successful organization.
Ready to transform your hiring process? Let us guide you on your journey. Read more on our cost and components of The Hiring Process Coach™, and learn more about how we can help guide you toward finding the right people for the right seats.
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