Talent Discovery
Hire with Confidence
The humanworks8 team brings decades of talent discovery experience to each leader’s unique recruiting and hiring journey. We work alongside you to find the right candidate for your role, whether it’s a unique hard-to-fill position or a new leader. Hire a candidate who adds value to your organizational culture and improves team synergy, saving you time and energy from search through onboarding and beyond.
Building on our belief that ”Everyone’s Unique,” we bring clarity to what your role truly requires for success and provide hands-on support with talent sourcing, communications, screening, evaluation and selection of a candidate that is aligned with your organization’s values. Select our services a la carte or engage in our full Talent Discovery experience to develop your organization’s Talent Canvas.
Our Talent Discovery Process
Clarify & Align
Align on how success for the role will be measured. Enhance the job posting, interview questions and candidate communications with core values and conative language.
Discover Talent
Leverage the humanworks8 network and expertise by engaging us to source candidates for your open roles. All outreach is tracked and shared back with you.
Evaluate & Hire
Learn cognitive abilities, affective qualities and conative strengths of top candidates, and collaboratively evaluate candidate potential alongside us.
A “Three Parts of the Mind” Approach
For hiring leaders who seek to increase confidence in hiring but already have the sourcing and interviewing support they need internally, humanworks8 recommends expanding the talent discovery process to include Kolbe RightFit™. Through an evaluation of the role itself to identify conative strengths necessary for success, this process strengthens alignment on the role expectations before evaluating and understanding the conative strengths of your top candidates, giving you the insights needed to determine the best fit for long-term success. This statistically proven hiring system complements your existing recruiting process with powerful information that is free from bias and jumpstarts a strong onboarding experience.
Cognitive
Does the candidate meet the knowledge and experience requirements necessary for the role?
Affective
Does the candidate align with your organization’s vision and core values?
Conative
What is the candidate’s natural method of problem solving and how does it align to the demands of this role?
Client Success
Family-owned start-up | Plymouth, WI
The new co-owners sought a stronger way to hire new agents and staff, using Kolbe RightFit™ for hiring these replicated roles. With an understanding of what success looked like in existing roles, this new hiring process helped the team grow more rapidly and get the right people in the right seat to better serve their clients and community. Upon hire, all team members received a comparison report with their leader and other members of their team, drawing an intentional, useful connection between the assessment taken during the interview process and the business’ way of operating.
Non-profit | Remote across WI
This chamber team more than tripled in size in less than six months, making the need for the right hires critical. Facilitated team conversations and “Innerview” exercises helped to champion individuals for their ways of problem solving. Equipped with a mutual respect for each other’s strengths and abilities, in-between workshop 1:1s addressed relationship challenges and set a path forward for working together.
Health & Education | Milwaukee, WI
Staying true to their core value of “Better Together,” the team at Penfield understood the importance of celebrating individual strengths and working toward team synergy. Leveraging Kolbe during the recruiting process led to leadership team and Board involvement and commitment to ensuring new leaders were a good cognitive, affective and conative fit. All Penfield staff know their Kolbe A Index result, so new hires can jumpstart relationships, understanding the strengths of others during onboarding and beyond.
Manufacturing | United States & Global
With high turnover in one replicated role, the leadership and HR teams at Century Aluminum sought a new approach to hiring. Leveraging Kolbe RightFit™, we identified a range of success for the role and put hundreds of candidates through this filter pre-hire. The organization continues to see lower turnover in the role after adding the Kolbe A™ Index to their recruiting process and leveraging the humanworks8 Three Parts of the Mind Interview Summary.
Health & Well-Being | Remote Across Wisconsin
Following a period of transition to remote work, the Wellness Council of Wisconsin (WCWI) team was experiencing high turnover, and sought to replace three roles with newly re-imagined roles. Hiring multiple roles simultaneously created an opportunity to identify combinations of top candidates from a cognitive, affective and conative component, identifying each hire’s impact to overall team synergy. Leveraging the humanworks8 process and Kolbe RightFit tools created confidence in final versions of job postings and interview questions for new positions that were similar, but different from recently-vacated roles
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