At TruPath, we conduct cultural assessments as part of our candidate discovery process. These cultural assessments give our recruitment team information about a candidate’s predictive behaviors and how those behaviors align with a company’s culture.
Why do a cultural assessment in your hiring process? Here are a few of our favorite reasons.
Culture is how you like to work.
A big part of what makes up a culture is how you like to work. Do your employees prefer to go into a dark room and work individually until they have developed a work of art? Or do your employees prefer to work as a team in an open space and work collaboratively until something great has been created?
A cultural assessment reveals a candidate’s work style. It may be easy for a candidate to show up at your office, sit in the waiting room, go to their interview in conference room and craft their answer about their “preferred working style” to mirror your environment. What candidate would realistically say they prefer working alone in an enclosed, quiet place when your atmosphere has rows of open work desks?
A cultural assessment doesn’t lie about work style. That’s one of the top reasons why incorporating a cultural assessment in your hiring process is a smart idea.
Culture is a shared journey.
There are a lot of poor definitions about what company culture really is. Companies may think they have culture because they have core values. One of our favorite definitions about culture is that “culture is an agreement on a destination.”
Think about it. Your company has a mission about where it wants to go. Candidates have a personal mission as well. How do those journeys align, and can the two of you join up to share that journey together?
A cultural assessment reveals a candidate’s mission of where they want to go. When considering cultural fit, there’s not too many things more important than ensuring your missions align.
Culture is about differences.
What truly makes your company unique? What truly makes your candidate unique?
By “unique,” we’re talking about the stuff that falls in the “5% category.” The stuff that 95% of the other candidates or companies can’t claim as their own. The stuff that goes against the norm. The stuff that makes you different.
For example, does everyone at your company have a private office? In today’s work world, that is unique and part of your culture. Or, does everyone at your company wear a t-shirt and tennis shoes to work? That might be unique if you are an industry like banking, but for startups, that’s not the stuff that is unique.
Cultural assessments discover the distinctions that make a difference about candidates. They go beyond the resume to see how their quirkiness and attributes align with the things that make your company stand out in the industry.
That is why TruPath does cultural assessments in the hiring process. We go beyond the resume to find candidates that are a true culture fit for our clients.
At TruPath, we take an elevated approach to talent search, going beyond the resume and focusing on candidates that will be a cultural fit for our individual clients.
By strategically searching for individuals with the requisite personality, character and values, in addition to the necessary hard skills, we are successful in finding candidates who are a TruFit. Contact TruPath today to learn more about how we help clients find culturally aligned leadership talent.