Verified Credentials and Humantelligence Partner to Bring Trust & Behavioral Science to Hiring and Talent Retention for Employers

Hiring, onboarding, and retention each come with their own challenges, but the foundation of all three involves knowing and understanding as much as possible about a candidate. All three of these employee lifecycle steps are heavily influenced by each other:

• A poor hiring fit creates onboarding challenges that cause disruptions and delays among the team, ultimately making it less likely that the new hire becomes retained talent.
• An inefficient onboarding process can negatively affect a new hire’s perception of the company, hinder their training and productivity, and deter them from sticking around long-term.
• Employee turnover can add more strain and expectations to the hiring process, impacting office morale and productivity.

Evidence of hiring, onboarding, and retention shortfalls can show itself in many ways throughout the workplace, including:

• • High early turnover

  • Misaligned expectations

  • Slow ramp-up time

  • Disengaged employees

  • Difficulties executing effective onboarding

To proactively avoid these commonly experienced issues, many organizations start at the root: implementing solutions that provide deeper visibility into candidates’ characteristics to support smarter hiring decisions. That’s why we’re excited to announce our new partnership with behavioral intelligence experts, Humantelligence!

Gathering more data to better understand candidates

Background checks are a necessary tool for risk management by facilitating the completion of compliance requirements and verifying a candidate’s qualifications and behavioral history to estimate safety and reliability. However, the insights that can be gathered from the information they provide are limited to an individual’s past achievements and activities; although they can be used to get an idea of who the person is, they are not necessarily an indicator of talent potential – i.e., how they work, what drives them, and how they’ll fit into the team.

The ability to better predict these “talent potential” qualities can help organizations:

• Hire smarter, faster by providing behavioral data that supports hiring decisions with structured insight. 
• Reduce turnover by matching candidates to roles that truly motivate them. 
• Improve engagement by making employees feel understood, not slotted in. 
• Support fairness and consistency by utilizing validated psychometrics to help reduce bias. 
• See measurable ROI by reducing mis-hires, increasing productivity, and strengthening teams. 

How can this data be collected?

Behavioral assessments are a proven and dependable method for collecting information about an individual. They are used to predict workplace performance by analyzing personality traits, motivators, stressors, problem-solving skills, and other relevant factors. Using this psychometric data, behavioral assessments provide measurable and actionable insights into a candidate’s work style, motivators, communication preferences, and culture alignment potential.

Behavioral assessments can have a positive impact on both organizations and candidates. Organizations substantially reduce turnover, boost productivity, and improve engagement, while candidates receive insight that helps them feel valued for both their potential and past experience. These considerations can also help support a candidate’s personal growth and development, as well as their employee-manager relationship. But the real magic happens when organizations are empowered to bridge the gap between candidate and employer trust, role fit, and risk assessment.

Bridging the gap between risk assessment and talent potential 

Verified Credentials is all about providing our clients with the resources to hire confidently. Partnering with Humantelligence allows us to deliver invaluable behavioral insights right to your client portal.

Through science-based personality and communication assessments, Humantelligence gives employers deeper insight into how candidates work, communicate, stay motivated, and align with team culture.

With our background check solutions, you can determine who is joining your team; adding the insights produced by Humantelligence’s incorporated personality assessments helps you identify the how and what: how they work and perform, and what motivates and deters them. Integrating Humantelligence’s assessments into our background screening software enables organizations to obtain validated behavioral insights seamlessly during the background screening process without causing delays or distractions.

How it works & applicability 

1. A 10-minute assessment is built into the background screening system to be completed by the candidate during their application process. 

2. Once the assessment has been completed, both the hiring manager and candidate receive instant feedback. 
   • Candidate report add-ons are optional but encouraged, as they help build self-awareness and encourage personal growth for the candidate. 
3. The hiring manager processes and applies actionable data to the hiring process wherever they see fit: 
   • Before the background check - Behavioral insight can be used to guide interviews and reference checks and identify motivational misalignment early.
   • After the background check - Managers are essentially equipped with a personalized onboarding guide, manager-employee alignment improves from day one, and friction and early turnover are reduced. 

In addition, the data reported by these assessments conveniently integrates with ATS, onboarding, and engagement tools. 

Linking reliable screening with successful hires

With this collaboration, Verified Credentials and Humantelligence aim to give companies deeper insight into performance, collaboration, and engagement behaviors, while encouraging employers to confirm not only who candidates are, but also what motivates them and how they can contribute to the team.

This exciting new integrated solution will be available to clients immediately upon release, with pilot programs available for organizations interested in evaluating the impact on hiring outcomes, onboarding, and retention.

High-quality background checks can help you hire with confidence. Adding behavioral assessments can help you hire with clarity. Reach out to your account manager to get started or learn more about this innovative hiring tool here.

About Humantelligence

Humantelligence is a behavioral assessment platform that helps organizations understand how people work, communicate, and stay motivated. Using validated psychometric science, Humantelligence supports better hiring, onboarding, engagement, and leadership development. Learn more about this organization at https://www.humantelligence.com/.