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careerXact Staffing solutions is a new take on the careerXact business model; one that offers a much higher-touch and complete recruiting service that’s unavailable anywhere else. We’re applying our 25+ years experience with employers like GlaxoSmithKline, Xerox, Nike, and Procter & Gamble to deliver a scientifically-validated, bias-free, patented solution to you.
Fortune 500 companies have been using job fit assessments for over 50 years
- 1957 – The first multivariate inventory of personality is built to predict outcomes, rather than measure traits. The test be
comes the gold standard for predicting effective occupational performance. - 1958 – Personality adequately organized into five general factors, now generally accepted as the structure of modern
personality measurement. - 1986 – Multivariate personality inventories begin to accurately predict behavioral outcomes rather than simply measure
traits. - 1990 – Studies demonstrate conclusively that personality measures, organized in terms of the Five-Factor Model, predict
occupational performance across a wide range of jobs and industries. - 2009 – careerXact licenses patented process of matching the right candidates with the right jobs, based on personality.
Here’s what some of our past and current clients have had to say about us:
"CB Richard Ellis is using careerXact to identify unique ‘best fit’ applicants up-front, more efficiently and effectively to spend more quality time with these people right away."
"The Document Company – Xerox is committed to attracting the brightest and best candidates. One of the best ways to get to new hires is using careerXact to screen and assess the top candidates."
"Wrigley is a world-leading confectionery company growing at an incredible pace! We are using careerXact to reach people who want to be challenged and join a frontrunner that's well positioned to vault them into the future."
"For today's Internet startups, human capital is quickly overtaking venture capital as a top priority. In most cases, finding the right people is more vital to a startup's success than finding the right money. Thanks to careerXact’s partnership with CanadaStartups.com, Canadian startups now have a resource for filling this vital need."
"Nike: Dynamic, evolving, change-oriented and innovative. Values integrity, teamwork and honesty--true components of any successful team. Encourages employees to provide ideas and insight for a better workplace and personal success."
Ambitious new sales targets required a performance improvement in key Sales, Marketing and Operations positions.
- Built customized JobFingerprint™ for five key positions in Sales, Marketing and Operations to focus resources on ‘right fit’ candidates.
- Hired people who fit JobFingerprint™ based on existing top performer profiles.
- Resulted in identification of employees who grew sales volume by $600 million in one year.
$16B Technology and Services Enterprise
Needed to reduce corporate involvement in the hiring process for National Agency Network, while increasing selection efficiency and effectiveness.
- careerXact worked directly with autonomous Agencies to gain buy-in and implement standardized online hiring process.
- Formalized normally ad hoc process inside the separate business units, helped reduce time-to-hire by 75%, while increasing rookie productivity and reducing turnover by 30%.
- New hires who fit the JobFingerprint™ produced $97,000 more than those who did not.
$6.5B Retail Company
Wished to restrict expensive management training program to those with the greatest potential to succeed.
- Built customized JobFingerprint™ to identify candidates with greatest potential ROI for management training expenditures.
- Included only high potential candidates in management training program.
- At 9-12 months, 93% of candidates were performing at or above set performance standard.
$110M Data Storage Company
Needed immediate increase existing sales force productivity, while continually improving ongoing performance.
- Introduced customized JobFingerprint™ to compare sales candidates against client’s own unique top performer profile.
- Screened all applicants against new JobFingerprint™
- New hires who matched the JobFingerprint™ were 40% more productive and turned-over 70% less than those who did not fit.
$630M Software Organization
Required a reduction in the number of bad hires and an increase in the number of top performers added to the organization.
- Implemented a solution capable of consistently identifying potential top performers and provide a measured ROI in under a year.
- Introduced customized JobFingerprint™ to compare candidates against client’s own unique top performers.
- Results measured over initial 6-9 months, where 10=top, 5=average and 0=bottom:
90%-100% careerXact Fit score = 8.0 average performance score.
80%-89% careerXact Fit score = 5.4 average performance score.
<80% careerXact Fit score = 4.0 average performance score.
$23B Global Insurance Company
Recent acquisition forced organization to reduce time-to-hire and number of bad hires to attract high potential MBA candidates, without access to additional management resources.
- Revise hiring process to focus on best fit candidates and effectively sell them on company culture.
- Resulted in over 70% of applicants who fit the careerXact Assessment™ being hired.
- Cut time-to hire by approximately 70%, saving the company millions in lost talent.
$1B Courier Company
Turnover in key operations and customer service positions needed to be reduced to help boost sagging performance and employee satisfaction.
- Alter intake and succession process to fast-track best fit candidates.
- Introduced customized JobFingerprint™ to compare candidates against client’s own unique top performers.
- Turnover dropped 47% over 36 months and employee satisfaction showed marked improvement.
$22B Financial Management and Advisory Company
Implemented a high-growth strategy in a newly merged division, while holding on to existing top performers.
- Provide influential performers with a hiring solution based on replicating top performers.
- All new divisional Sales Assistants and Advisor hires were assessed against customized JobFingerprint™ and provide structured interview solution, for all branch managers.
- Division exceeded targets to become largest retail brokerage firm in Canada, growing from 400 to over 1,600 advisors in only five years.
$14B Pharmaceutical Company
Reduce hiring manager time spent hiring while increasing the performance of new sales representatives.
- Introduced customized JobFingerprint™ to compare candidates against client’s own unique top performers.
- Hiring managers focus time on those who fit, improving number of interviews per offer by 19.4% to 37.5%.
- Client’s metrics show that those sales reps who fit the JobFingerprint™ perform over 27% better than those who did not.
$12B Global Financial Services Organization
Revision of Core Competencies for Telephone Banking positions required organization to better understand which competencies were providing the most ROI .
- Implement JobFingerprint™ to measure Core Competencies in existing workforce.
- Incorporated JobFingerprint™ to assess gap analysis between top and bottom performers in Sales & Service and Team Leader jobs.
- Discovered which competencies/traits provided the greatest ROI for specific jobs, allowing the organization to use their behavioural interviewing to more effectively identify potential strong and weak performers.
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