How can Crystal improve hiring decisions?

Reduce employee turnover and boost job satisfaction by using personality data to assess candidates and determine their compatibility with their role.

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NOTE: Crystal's Hiring tool and features are only available within the Business package. To learn more about this option, speak with one of our specialist and schedule your product demo. 

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When determining a candidate's job fit, it can be helpful to discover their unique personality type through personality frameworks such as DISC. In doing so, you will gain valuable insights into a candidate's behaviors, motivations, and predispositions. Personality insights also can help predict whether a candidate has certain soft skills.

Our Jobs feature allows recruiters, hiring managers, executives, and job-seekers to see the ideal behavioral traits required for any role, and measure the behavioral overlaps and gaps for any candidate (including themselves).

We created this tool with a few goals in mind:

• To help recruiters, hiring managers, and executives understand the ideal personality traits they need for each job opening.
• To make job interviews more efficient and productive for both parties.
• To give companies the behavioral data they need to build stronger teams, where each employee can harness their natural strengths.  

How it works for recruiters, hiring managers, and executives

For anyone who needs to source candidates, run interviews, and make hiring decisions, the Jobs feature provides personality insights to make each step of the process more efficient and effective. Here’s how to get started: 

1. Go to Jobs in the Crystal dashboard.
2. Create a new Job. Include the job title, company, and job description.
3. View the ideal candidate profile. Crystal will analyze the job description to generate a prediction for the ideal candidate, showing you the most important traits and behaviors to look for. In addition to the analysis, you can complete a “behavior survey” to make the ideal candidate profile more accurate and specific. This survey can be completed by anyone on your team who may be impacted by this hire, including the role’s manager, peers, or subordinates.
4. Add Candidates to the Job. You can test this out by adding yourself as the first candidate for the job, to measure your own Job Fit Score. Start inviting candidates to complete a personality assessment for this job (they won’t need a Crystal account) and add any of your existing people as a candidate (including coworkers and others that might be a good fit).
5. For each candidate, you can create a custom “Interview” playbook, which provides detailed comparisons between the candidate and the job, as well as helpful interview questions to cover the most important topics. Each question focuses on a potential “gap” between the candidate’s personality profile and the ideal profile for the job, so you can understand how the candidate has learned to adjust their behaviors to stretch into different situations (since there is no such thing as a perfect match).
   
   
6. When you have added all of your candidates, you can create a Playbook that allows you to evaluate all of them as a group, rather than individually.

How it works for job seekers

If you’re one of the tens of millions of people currently looking for a job, this new feature can help you find a role that fits your natural strengths and allows you to thrive (all for free). We’ll have more updates on this in the near future, but for now, here’s how you can use Jobs: 

1. Go to Jobs in your Crystal dashboard.
2. Create a Job for any role that you’re thinking about applying for. Include the title, company, and job description.
3. Crystal will analyze the job description and give you a prediction for the behaviors that are most likely required for this job.
4. Add yourself as a candidate to see your Job Fit score, which tells you how well your own behavioral strengths overlap with the requirements for this job.
5. Create Playbooks to compare yourself with any Job, or any group of Jobs (requires a Premium plan or higher). 

Customer Success Story

Watch a quick video on how one of our customers, Window World, reduced employee turnover and transformed company culture using Crystal

Full success story can be found here: https://www.crystalknows.com/case-study/window-world