HIRING SERVICE: JOB DESCRIPTION CONVERSION
Conversion of Job Descriptions into Success Factor Snapshots
 One of the frustrations we hear in workshops around the country is, "There is poor accountability in our company". How can you change your culture so that there is high accountability?
The primary method to implement high accountability is to ensure everyone's jobs are defined with outcomes, deliverables, metrics, and standards that are tied back to departmental and company goals.
One option is to work your way slowly through the entire organization to change the old format of traditional, worthless job descriptions. In most organizations, this can be a 2 to 3- year process. Do you have the patience to wait that long?
Another option is take advantage of our Success Factor Snapshot Conversion Project. This hiring service will convert all your existing traditional job descriptions into more useful Success Factor Snapshots.
Once the conversion takes place, you'll be able to leverage the Success Factor Snapshot as the primary tool to drive other human resource processes, such as training and development, non-monetary rewards and recognition, compensation, hiring, performance management.
In their landmark book, First Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman identified that one of the key elements of employee satisfaction is a clear and precise understanding of what is expected of their performance. Since this is missing in most companies, is there any wonder why employee dissatisfaction is rampant in most organizations?
Testimonials for Converting Traditional Job Descriptions:
"We're a mid-sized company and rapidly growing. We didn't have the internal capability to implement the Success Factor Methodology in our business quickly. We asked IMPACT Hiring Solutions to start with creating Success Factor Snapshots for everyone at the executive and managerial level. Within a couple of months of starting the project, every executive and manager had a clear understanding of the expectations. Our operational metrics, customer satisfaction, and execution began to improve immediately."
M.T., President
A Consumer Products Manufacturing Company
Newark, NJ
"One of our biggest struggles was making sure our consultants and consulting managers understood clearly the expectations. One of the major reasons for our historical poor regional performance was the lack of strong role clarification. We engaged IMPACT Hiring Solutions to create a series of Success Factor Snapshots for our most important consulting roles. Upon completion of the project, the impact was nothing short of a cultural transformation. We're now one of the top performing regions in the country."
T.D., Partner-in-charge, Northeast Region
National Consulting Firm
New York, NY
Traditional Job Descriptions are Worthless!
Before we wrote our book, You're NOT the Person I Hired, which more than 10,000 CEOs and senior executives worldwide have embraced, we commissioned a study to identify the most common mistakes in hiring. One of the most critical hiring mistakes was using the wrong criteria in defining the work. Instead of developing a Success Factor Snapshot, most hiring managers use a traditional job description.
Traditional job descriptions are worthless as a tool for predicting and managing success.
The job description tends to drive the entire hiring process in most companies, whether it's a formal HR document , something jotted down on the back of napkin, or lodged somewhere in the brain of the CEO or senior executive.
Traditional job descriptions are worthless as effective hiring tools since they are usually just a laundry list of historical inputs that have nothing to do with future success.Most job descriptions describe minimum, average, and mediocre performance levels.
A more effective approach would be to define success of someone in the top quartile of the candidate pool. Our Success Factor Methodology converts the inadequate job descriptions to a Success Factor Snapshot by using the SOAR approach. Take a look at the free examples of Success Factor Snapshots in the FREE Resources section of our Web site.
These examples illustrate how a variety of different roles should appear for managerial or executive roles. Imagine using a similar tool to drive more effective hiring, performance management, training, and personal development. Imagine the positive cultural impact of moving toward a success-driven organization!
Impact of a Success Factor Snapshot
Our clients frequently tell us about the changes that occur through something as simple as defining success for every role in the company. These outcomes include flawless execution, higher margins and profits, ability to attract better talent than competitors, becoming a magnet for talent in their local communities, higher levels of customer satisfaction and retention, to name just a few.
How do you know if you need to convert your existing traditional job descriptions into Success Factor Snapshots? Take advantage of our FREE Success Factor Review. We'll quickly show you how developing an SFS will dramatically improve your hiring process, both through sourcing and through interviewing.
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