DISC for Hiring: Applying the DISC Assessment for the Right Match

Employee turnover can be very costly. When factoring in the costs of recruitment, hiring, training, lost productivity, and lost sales during the process, an employer will likely lose tens of thousands of dollars on each lost employee. Using DISC in hiring and talent management reduces the long-term costs of hiring by lowering employee turnover rates, increasing retention, motivating top performers, and building stronger teams.

The DISC Assessment paired with a Performance Benchmark provides crucial information about one's personality style behaviors and preferences that is either a good match or a not-so-good match for any particular position.

The DISC Assessment focuses on aspects of personality traits such as:

• Communication preferences
• Ability to work within a team or independently
• Decision-making ability
• Management propensity
• Attention to detail and organizational skills
• And what keeps a person motivated

Applying DISC for hiring, even if it's the DISC Assessment alone without any applied performance benchmarking or consultancy, imparts critical information about a potential hire to employers and hiring managers that otherwise cannot be gauged from reading only a resume.

What is Performance Benchmarking?

Benchmarking is the process of identifying the soft skills and personality requirements most successful within any particular job or career cluster. By identifying what would make a person in a position most successful, motivated, and accurate, we can create ranges of Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance within each position that ideally a new employee's DISC profile would match.

For example, a salesperson should have good people skills, where an administrative assistant or IT professional should have organizational skills with the ability to pay close attention to details. Having a programmer who doesn't create accurate code or a salesperson who experiences anxiety when interacting with people, are not efficient combinations and could negatively impact a company's bottom line.

By creating customized career benchmarks and giving all prospective hires a DISC Assessment, you can match which qualified applicants would be the most successful within the position, which will lead to more satisfied and motivated employees, higher retention rates, and increased productivity and morale.

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Request your own custom-branded online DISC business portal, standard industry benchmarks for common positions within that field, and the PeopleKeys 4D (DISC + TEAMS + Values + BAI) assessment for hiring.

The 4D report gauges four different levels of a person's personality. First, it identifies one's DISC Personality Style, measuring predictable behaviors, motivators, fears, communication style, and more. Second, it identifies one's workplace Values, also known as internal motivators within the workplace. These values guide the decisions that we make on many levels. Third, it identifies one's T.E.A.M.S. thinking style, both as it contributes to a team environment, but also where one's likely individual strengths will lie. And lastly, but not least, it identifies an individual's passions or personal motivators using the Behavioral Attitudes Index (BAI).

Using the PeopleKeys 4D report that contains all four assessments in one, paired with a performance benchmark, will give you the best and most in-depth understanding of a potential employee and how they match or do not match your open positions.

Hire with confidence by becoming the DISC expert in your company.