Common Concepts
This AI-powered tool drives job-specificity for nearly a million jobs.
What is the jobs engine?
A collection of job-specific questions that are consistently asked of all candidates, provided by Wonderlic Select.
What is a structured interview guide?
The job-specific attributes that differentiate performance, allowing employees to identify the areas where they should focus their development efforts.
What are Critical Attributes?
A systematic method to gather and analyze consistent, accurate information about a job, which may include responsibilities and tasks, and the requirements of the people performing it.
What is Job Analysis?
The amount of time a recruiter typically spends on a first resume review.
This construct measures a person's ability to learn, adapt, solve problems, and understand instructions.
What is Cognitive Ability?
Information provided once a candidate is marked as hired that uses their assessment personalized results to help inform training, management and coaching, and teams and relationships.
What are New Hire Success Tips?
A study that compares the results delivered on the job to a candidate's Wonderlic Select results, helping to validate that Select is working as expected, and may include data that demonstrates how much more successful applicants with strong or moderate Wonderlic Select scores are on the job than their lower-scoring peers.
What is a Local Validation Study?
This often-overlooked corollary of recruitment, supported by employee development, helps ensure that the people who have been selected for a job continue to stay in the job. Can be considered a recruitment strategy.
What is retention?
Evaluates a person's interests, which helps predict how motivated someone will be by the actual responsibilities of the job.
What is Motivation?
A report sent to candidates once they complete Wonderlic Select that's designed to allay concerns about whether they were accurately captured by the assessment, offers them something in return for the investment of time and energy, and provides a bolster for candidate experience.
What is the Candidate Feedback Report?
This path for development is defined by the steps Explore, Identify, Calibrate, Commit, and Reflect & Repeat.
What is the Develop Cycle?
A systematic approach to gather feedback about the impact and effectiveness of development programs.
What is an ROE Study?
The financial impact of bringing a less-than-ideal candidate on board which, according to research, is conservatively $15,000, but can be as high as $240,000.
What is the cost of a bad hire?
Assesses the alignment of someone's personality traits with the demands of the job.
What is Personality?
This feature allows you to examine your short list of candidates side-by-side, with a focus on the attributes that will make the biggest difference on the job.
What is Compare Candidates?
The specific behaviors that are committed to as part of the Develop Cycle, focused on what specifically the employee will practice, clarifying why it's important, and identifying how they'll know when it's done. Ideally, these should drive business outcomes while also driving development.
What are goals?
An analysis that can be run independently or as a supplement to other studies that considers whether some demographic groups might be impacted differently than others in a selection process.
What is an Adverse Impact Analysis?
A way to both retain and improve the performance of the people you've already hired, especially important during a time when hiring options are limited.
What is developing your current employees?
This aspect of Wonderlic's tools helps to ensure that selection and development criteria provide the best recommendations to ensure success in the role, while also reducing bias by eliminating arbitrary attributes.
What is job specificity?
The primary desire driving a request for integration, this can also be achieved by using email templates, ATS auto-responses, and Quick Apply Links.
What is automation?
The overall goal of Wonderlic Develop, this helps an employee build awareness of their tendencies and how those relate specifically to their job, enabling them to focus their development on the attributes that will make the biggest difference in their role.
What is Strategic Self Awareness?
A possible output of a job analysis or local validation study, this allows the scoring profile in Wonderlic Select to be fine-tuned to ensure a tight fit with an organization's particular role, offering greater job-specificity than an off-the-shelf scoring profile.
What is a Custom Scoring Profile?
The reality that as jobs evolve, a focus on the hard skills that were relevant yesterday have little bearing on what's important today, and are impossible to predict for tomorrow; reinforcing the importance of selecting for and developing attributes that will allow people to continue to grow change a the workplace evolves.
What is the nature of work is changing?