"A couple of years ago, I was working with a large general contracting company that had trouble recruiting project managers in their region. Knowing the industry quite well, I wanted to delve into where past successful hires had been sourced from and use that to the company's advantage in where they'd spend advertising dollars. Unfortunately, they had an archaic system for applicants because paper applications were housed in the finance office back at their corporate office. I took time to dig through files to see where recent project manager hires had found out about the jobs. With that in mind, we focused recruitment efforts on college construction program career fairs and two industry-specific publications. These efforts had never been looked into in the past, and they led to two great hires in a short time."

"Based on my current organization's low acceptance rate of offers, I approached our senior leadership team to determine why offers were being declined. Based on the data, I was tasked with doing market research for competing jobs to help ensure that our offers were fair compared to our competition in the job market. We also wrote new recruitment procedures for hiring managers and our recruitment staff to ensure clear communication to candidates on expectations for jobs. In the end, the senior leadership team approved new pay scales for several positions and an increase in the total benefits package. To this day, we are seeing a much higher acceptance rate due to becoming more competitive and clearer in our job expectations."

"The most important roles you hire for are for your leaders. And this makes sense because they drive everything that happens in the company. However, leadership decisions are often made by simply promoting the highest performer. But the highest performer isn't the best leader. Why? Performance has nothing to do with being able to engage, motivate, coach, and inspire others. DDI assessments help you get the data you need to know if someone has what it takes for leadership, whether the position is a manager or the CEO. You'll also know whether they're ready now, need some development before promotion, or if you may need to look for an external candidate for the role."