What does a company profile look like?

Your people must fit your company culture and vision. A powerful method to ensure this fit is to create a profile of your ideal candidate including factors unique to your identity such as thinking styles, behavioral traits, and work-place values. This standard can then be applied to your People Practices from cradle to grave as a measure of effectiveness in driving towards organizational goals.

What does a position profile look like?

This method of creating an ideal profile can also be applied on a positional level. In fact, a study published by the Harvard Business Review examining factors such as education, experience, and job training in 300,000 subjects concluded that “job match” is by far the most reliable predictor of job effectiveness. Dimensions of job match include ability, interest, and personality.