An online platform听is disrupting how businesses source and recruit top talent.听
PeopleHawk听is helping businesses shift their reliance on slow, outdated CV-based recruitment processes, replacing them with data-rich, digital candidate profiles that contain everything an employer needs to make an informed hiring decision.听
The brainchild of Paul Kinney and his co-founder Alistair Craig, both of whom have extensive backgrounds in Fortune 100 companies,听PeopleHawk听says it is becoming a gamechanger for both candidates and businesses, significantly cutting the repetitive, first-round interview process by leveraging scientifically backed, highly predictive algorithms to rank candidates based on potential.听
The platform has quickly caught the attention of leading businesses and universities in the UK, North America, South Africa and India.听听
鈥淓mployers typically spend weeks of their valuable time trying to unearth ideal candidates from a pile of unsearchable, randomly formatted CVs, but听PeopleHawk听allows them to take a radically more scientific, targeted and faster approach using digital candidate profiles, together with rich search, find and shortlist features,鈥澨齭aid CEO听Paul Kinney.听
鈥淭alk to any forward-thinking employer and they鈥檒l tell you that personality strengths and cognitive abilities are at least, if not more important than knowledge, skills and experience.听听
鈥淵ou see, businesses increasingly want to hire for personality and potential, because they already know they can train skill. That鈥檚 why we designed our platform to unearth each candidate鈥檚 potential, while at the same time provide companies direct access to this valuable information.听听
鈥淎nd because the platform is digital, and all the insightful candidate data is provided up front hiring decisions are better informed, faster and more cost effective.听听
鈥淲e鈥檝e even developed an interface for hiring managers to set parameters for each job, which can then be used to rank applicants using proprietary algorithms, dramatically cutting the Time to Hire.听听
鈥淚t鈥檚 all quite revolutionary.鈥澨�听
PeopleHawk听has been validated by scientific studies in the US, under the watchful eye of its lead scientist, Professor Colin Cooper, formerly of Queen鈥檚 University Belfast.听听
Professor Cooper, now based in Toronto,听is a world renowned academic in the field of individual differences and intelligence. He was the psychologist behind BBC television series Test the Nation.听
He said:听鈥淪cientific studies have long evidenced that cognitive abilities and personality traits are some of the best predictors of academic success, future work performance and candidate trainability. This science forms the bedrock of听PeopleHawk鈥檚听candidate profiles.鈥�听
PeopleHawk听profiles contain data from 14 of the top 30 most predictive candidate selection methods as standard, data that would otherwise take employers weeks to gather through repeated assessments and interviews. This means that, from an employer鈥檚 perspective the predictive power of听PeopleHawk听is huge.听
Kinney听concluded:听鈥淚t鈥檚 quite unbelievable that the most successful companies in the world still rely on CVs to kick start one of the most important decisions they make – who to hire.听听
鈥淏ut given the lack of available insight on candidate personality and potential it鈥檚 no wonder businesses in sectors such as IT and听financial听services take between 6 and 9 weeks to identify ideal candidates following a job advert.听听
鈥淵et, despite spending so much time the frequency of making a wrong hiring decision still remains high.听
鈥淲e know it might take a while to shift behaviours, but once hiring managers see how听PeopleHawk听is turning the hiring cycle completely on its head, we鈥檙e confident they won鈥檛 go back to their old ways of working.鈥�听