The Science of Leadership Assessment

In our last article Is the Interview A Roll Of The Dice?  we thought that Dan Shapero, LinkedIn’s VP of Talent Solutions, was a little behind the times in saying “Recruiting has always been an art, but it’s becoming a science.” We believe recruiting already is a science and has been for some time, decades even, and with our leadership assessment we put the science in and the guessing out.

What is more, it is not just leadership assessment; leadership development and talent management have also benefited from modern psychometric techniques. And then the explosion of the internet meant that services could reach globally. hfi has been delivering scientifically validated leadership assessments for over 30 years and the psychologists who contributed the standardized measures of personality hark back well before that, for example, Raymond Cattell in the 1940s.

Recently hfi ran a regression to demonstrate the remarkably strong relationship between our leadership assessment and later performance – how well we predict performance in the role. The result was conclusive and showed with statistical significance that our Leadership assessment predicted performance in the role 1 and 2 years after being selected.