Learn how to predict candidate success, reduce bias, and make hiring decisions you can stand behind.
Hiring carries real risk. A single poor-fit hire drains productivity, unsettles teams, and can cost up to 30% of annual salary. Organisations spend heavily on recruitment campaigns and interviews, but most decisions still rely on instinct. CVs show what someone has done, not how they will work in your environment. Interviews are influenced by bias, confidence, and chemistry.
The result is predictable: poor fit, low retention, and wasted investment. To protect performance and growth, leaders need more than experience and gut feel. They need a system that defines what success looks like in a role and compares every candidate against that benchmark.
Hiring with Impact introduces participants to a structured, data-driven hiring process. Before recruitment begins, leaders learn how to set a clear Job Target that defines the behavioural and cognitive demands of a role. This creates alignment between stakeholders and ensures everyone agrees on what success looks like.
From there, the workshop shows how to assess candidates against that target. Participants explore behavioural data to understand how someone naturally communicates, makes decisions, and works under pressure. They then see how cognitive data predicts a candidate’s ability to learn quickly and adapt to change.
Through guided exercises, participants practise applying both types of data to shortlist candidates, prepare focused interview questions, and make confident hiring decisions. By the end, they leave with a repeatable system that reduces bias, speeds up decision-making, and improves retention.
The evidence is clear: instinct-driven hiring is expensive and unsustainable. Using data to guide decisions reduces costly mistakes and improves retention.
A mis-hire costs on average 30% of annual salary
75% of firing decisions are behaviour-related, not skill-related, meaning most mistakes could have been avoided.
Companies that align job data with candidate insight report up to an 82% reduction in turnover in the first year.
The Predictive Index® has been used for more than 60 years to help leaders make better people decisions. Today it is applied in over 10,000 organisations across 90 countries, available in 70+ languages, with more than 38 million assessments completed.
After this workshop, participants walk away with:
A role benchmark that defines what success looks like before recruitment begins.
The skill to interpret candidate behavioural and cognitive data and match it against the role.
A repeatable hiring framework they can apply immediately to reduce bias, improve retention, and protect against costly mis-hires.
This workshop is available in-person or virtually, as a half-day or modular programme spread across shorter sessions. Every session is facilitated by a People Optimiser consultant and designed specifically around your organisation’s context and challenges.
Hiring with Impact equips your leaders to make people decisions they can stand behind. It reduces bias, improves retention, and ensures your investment in talent drives real business results.
