Our Diagnostic Suite › HIRING AND SELECTION TOOLS
Every wrong hire is a decision.
- Globally Trusted. Rigorously Validated.
Objective intelligence that interview panels and CVs can never provide.
Our diagnostic suite is built on assessments that are globally validated, ethically certified, and deployed across some of the world’s most demanding leadership environments. The decisions you make at the top of the hiring funnel should be backed by the same.
46%
Of new hires fail within 18 months, and most failures are behavioural, not technical.
5x
The annual salary: average total cost of a senior mis-hire when all factors are accounted for.
36%
Improvement in hiring accuracy when validated behavioural assessments are used in selection.
- The Hiring and Selection Tool Suite
Two tools. Competency and behavioural lenses.
Built to give you the objective intelligence that interview panels and CVs will never provide.
Core Competency Index
Know before you hire whether this person has what the role actually demands.
Interviews reveal how well someone performs under interview conditions. References reveal how they performed in a previous context. Neither tells you whether they have the specific competencies your role requires, the ones that will determine whether they succeed or fail in this organisation, in this culture, under this kind of pressure. The Core Competency Index closes that gap with precision that no interview process can match. It assesses the role-specific competencies and motivational fit most predictive of performance, before the hire is made, producing an objective, defensible competency picture of every candidate that protects decisions carrying real organisational consequences.
What This Diagnostic Measures
- Role-specific competency fit against defined success criteria
- Motivational alignment with the demands of the role
- Competency gaps that onboarding will need to address
- Candidate ranking across comparable competency profiles
- Interview question prompts based on identified gaps
- Objective data to defend selection decisions with confidence
Best for Any organisation making senior hires, succession decisions, or internal promotions where getting it right is not optional, and the cost of getting it wrong is too high to leave to gut instinct alone.
Competency fit Motivational alignment Selection accuracy Bias reduction Succession planning
Workplace and Executive Insights
The behavioural intelligence that tells you how this candidate will actually operate in the role.
A candidate’s track record tells you what they have done. Their behavioural profile tells you how they are wired to do it, under pressure, in ambiguity, in conflict, in the leadership moments that define whether someone is genuinely right for a role or just right for the interview. Workplace and Executive Insights brings that behavioural dimension to your selection process with the rigour and objectivity it deserves. Role-specific behavioural and leadership profiles are mapped against the demands of the position, giving selection panels the data to make decisions they can defend, and candidates the experience of a selection process that takes them seriously as whole people, not just CVs.
What This Diagnostic Measures
- Behavioural style alignment with role and culture demands
- Leadership wiring and its fit to the specific mandate
- Natural strengths the role will leverage immediately
- Behavioural risk areas requiring onboarding attention
- Communication and influence style in organisational context
- Executive presence and decision-making pattern at senior level
Best for Executive search processes, senior leadership appointments, board-level talent assessments, and any organisation that understands behavioural fit is as consequential as technical fit at the top of the house.
Behavioural fit Executive selection Leadership wiring Culture alignment Onboarding intelligence
- What Our Clients Are Saying
“We had made three senior hires in two years that did not work out. The pattern was always the same, great in the interview, wrong in the role. The Core Competency Index changed our selection process completely. Our last four senior hires have all exceeded expectations. We will never go back to relying on gut alone.”
T. Asante
Chief People Officer, Pan-African Bank
“Using Workplace and Executive Insights for our executive appointments gave our board a level of confidence in the selection process they had never had before. The data did not replace judgment. It informed it. The quality of our conversations about candidates improved immediately.”
A. Obiora
Board Chair, Energy Sector
“The assessment flagged behavioural risk areas in a candidate we were very close to appointing. We adjusted the onboarding plan to address those specific areas from day one. Eighteen months later that leader is one of our strongest. The tool did not just help us hire better. It helped us set the hire up to succeed.”
N. Sarpong
HR Director, Professional Services
“We were spending significant budget on executive search fees and then losing new leaders within twelve months. One round of assessment data and a structured debrief saved us more than the cost of the entire programme. These tools are not a cost. They are risk mitigation at the highest level.”
R. Dlamini
Group CEO, Financial Services
The next hire your organisation gets wrong will cost far more than this.
Talk to a consultant. We build the right selection framework for decisions that cannot afford to fail.
