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BestWork DATA – Just the Facts

Contributed by: Chuck Russell
Chairman & Chief Knowledge Officer, BestWork DATA

The value of BestWork DATA is its ability to reveal the behavioral facts about people…to tell what they can do and what they cannot do. Every human behavior depends upon the hard-wired personality traits and cognitive abilities of the individual. These are foundational, and effectively do not change with training, coaching or incentives. BestWork DATA measures these accurately and reliably. Most importantly, it translates the DATA into specific descriptions of the job behaviors that are critical to the successful performance of the job. Simply put, it answers these kinds of questions:

• Can this person persuade people to make buying decisions?
• Can this person work accurately with highly detailed information?
• Can this person direct the actions of others?
• Will this person be warm and friendly with customers?
• Can this person handle complex solution sales?
• Can this person handle routine tasks over an extended period of time? • Can this person consistently follow the existing procedures?

The answers to these questions are facts that BestWork DATA can easily provide. They can be used for recruiting and understanding what positions best fit job candidates. They can be used to solve performance problems. They can be used to engineer more effective teams. They can be used for workforce planning and strategic change programs. All of this is possible without the need for special training or expert interpretations. The reports can even be customized for special situations or circumstances.

Now the big question…if these facts are readily available, when do you want to know them. Imagine instead of job performance, the question was about parachutes and whether they were going to open. At what point would you want to know that information? While you are still in the plane…? Or after you jumped…? Do you want to know whether or not the person can do the job before or after you hire them? Before or after the interviews…? Before or after sending them to the training program…?

The difference in BestWork DATA is that it gives you facts that are important to your decisions. It is not a percentage match to a questionable model in which any facts are mixed together with other stuff. It is not a red, yellow or green opinion about the candidate and the job or some arbitrary rating system. It is simply the answer to the questions you asked when you thought about the job. The facts will reveal themselves either through the BestWork DATA reports or through the candidate’s actual job performance. Now you get to choose which will work better for your business.

For more information go to: https://hrboost.com/bestwork-data/

About the Author:

Chuck Russell is a leading authority on the business applications of assessment technology. He has reviewed the assessment industry for twenty years. His first book, Right Person – Right Job, Guess or Know, introduced new paradigms for hiring, management and training. Chuck has pioneered many innovations in the assessment industry, all with the goal of unlocking the strengths within each person. His company, BestWork DATA, develops advanced talent acquisition and talent management systems that are disruptive innovations in the assessment world, displacing the old profiling methodologies with newer generations of psychometric applications that are effectively operating systems for human resources.

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