Posted by on February 27, 2025.
One of the great challenges of identifying leaders with the potential for success is looking beyond the sum of their job experience to truly understand the approach they’ll bring to guiding their teams and shaping their organizations. In recruiting, determining each candidate’s job fit is crucial for success. Ensuring everyone is using the same language is critical to talent management success. Defining three fundamental concepts can really help:
Competencies
Competencies form a baseline, defining what success looks like in a role. Integrating these elements will position you in a positive way when recruiting:
Knowledge: what you know
Skills: what you can do
Abilities: what you are capable of
Behaviors: how you act in different situations
Competency: leadership, communication, relationships, development of others
Skill Sets
Skill sets are practical functional abilities developed through experience or training. They are specific and often job-dependent. Example skill sets include, but are not limited to:
Instills trust
Motivates successfully
Develops strategies
Creates a vision
Behaviors
Behaviors refer to the observable actions and attitudes that reflect how a person applies their skills and knowledge. Some examples of behavior may include:
Problem solving
Sociability
Assertiveness
Judgement
The Profiles Incorporated suite of assessments, specifically the PXT Select assessment, combines these elements, allowing recruiters to match candidates more precisely with job roles. The assessments insights into cognitive abilities, behavioral traits and interests help ensure a strong job fit. This will lead to reducing turnover, enhancing team dynamics and improving employee engagement.
A great example of this is using the Leadership Competency driven by the attached Profiles PXT Select Leadership Report. As you can see, this report provides specific feedback about 3 Organizational Leadership Skills and 3 People Leadership Skills. This is accomplished by using the PXT Select Assessment results.
Example: Leadership Competency
Skill: Ensuring Results
Key Behaviors: Pace, assertiveness, Decisiveness
At Profiles, Inc we often see these three definitions mixed up which often interferes with an efficient and effective recruiting process. Contact us today to gain access to the Profiles PXT Select, help your recruiting and talent acquisition teams speak the same language, and improve the effectiveness of your Talent Management process.
Call Profiles, Inc today to get started with this powerful Talent Management System!
Nancy Ness952-975-1955
nancyness@profilesincorporated.com
www.profilesincorporated.com
