How to identify great talent in your selection process

Effectively identify who among your applicants has the greatest potential for success.

Assessing for great talent within your candidate pool

When assessing candidates for selection, most organisations are asking themselves three key questions:

Does the candidate have the right attributes to do the job well?
Does the candidate have the motivation to want to do the job?
Will the candidate be a good match for the team and organisation?

Implementing talent selection solutions into your hiring process can help to answer these questions and lead to a quicker and better hire. Talogy’s selection solutions give you the in-depth data you need to objectively assess the competencies and attributes required for success in a role, without impeding speed to hire. Not only do we have a broad range of selection solutions ready to configure for your specific situation and talent needs, we have the expertise to understand exactly how to use each tool in a way that supports your desired business objectives.

Our top 5 tips for identifying great talent during selection

Be clear about what you need to measure

The first step of the selection process is always to build a clear picture of what great performance looks like in the role, both now and in future. What are the competencies or attributes a candidate needs to thrive in the role? Decide what you need to measure before designing the selection process and choosing particular assessments.

Design the right solution for you

The right talent selection process is different in every organisation. Make sure your solution measures the attributes that define success and matches your process needs. You can’t take an assessment designed for a different company and expect it to work the same for you. Your solution should be the right length, use the right item types, and measure only what matters.

Hire for potential

In many cases, a candidate’s potential is what determines success on the job. Employers often emphasise past experience or specific knowledge when making hiring decisions. This can lead to a lack of diversity, lack of candidates, and generally dissatisfying prediction. Instead, measure what matters — make decisions based on a candidate’s potential to contribute to the organisation.

Evaluate and enhance

There is no set-it-and-forget-it solution. Your talent selection process should be evolving along with your organisational goals. We can help you evaluate what’s working, improve what isn’t, and continually enhance your hiring programme to ensure it captures exactly what you need.

Treat candidates like customers

Lead with a human-centred approach when it comes to any process that involves talent. Your selection programme is a direct reflection of your organisation, and even the candidates you don’t hire may still become customers. Build your hiring process in a way that gives candidates an engaging and fair experience, where they are able to demonstrate their capability and potential.

How Talogy can help you identify great talent to hire

Discover potential

Cognitive ability is one of the most reliable predictors of success in the workplace. Talogy’s cognitive ability assessments (like Mindgage or Logiks) can help you understand which of your candidates has the potential to analyse data, understand complex problems, and learn quickly.
Access the power of personality

Talogy’s personality assessments (like Caliper or PAPI) can give you deeper insight into what drives your candidates and who is likely to thrive in a role. Use these assessments to understand a candidate’s preferred work style and behavioural tendencies to find out if they’d be a good fit for the role and your organisation.
Find out more about Talogy's Caliper Personality Assessment
Customise with solutions

The Talogy assessment solutions give you the flexibility to add screening, selection, and development tools into one complete talent management system. It’s more than a single product. It’s more than industry expertise. It’s an integrated way of doing things.
Combine multiple methods of measurement

Don’t rely on just a single approach to measuring candidate attributes. If something is important for the job, measure it multiple times and in multiple ways. Talogy’s solutions allow you to configure a valid solution that emphasises the most important attributes by measuring them in multiple ways within the same assessment.

Talk to a Talent Expert

Proven expertise in identifying quality hires

Estimated savings of £3.5 million in resources

Improving the quality of selection decisions

How the UK Civil Service improved the efficiency and quality of job application screening and final selection decisions while being inclusive and accessible to all candidates

Read more
250+ full-time positions filled on schedule

Identifying the best hires

How Holcim, a leading manufacturer and supplier of cement and mineral components, contracted Talogy to staff its new plant with highly qualified employees before its scheduled opening

Read more
Less time spent on low-potential candidates; more time spent on high-quality candidates

Assessing characteristics essential to successful job performance

How Malt-O-Meal, the fourth-largest cereal company in the U.S., partnered with Talogy to implement a reliable selection system that would enhance the quality of hires and efficiently manage a large applicant pool

Read more

The solution has been a really positive and engaging experience for the candidates. Talogy have been really great to work with, really flexible, really responsive, with really high-quality content.

Paul Weldon

Principal Occupational Psychologist, Government Recruitment Service

Find your best candidates with the Talogy Hire Assessment

With the Talogy Hire assessment, you can quickly assess the fit of your candidates and automatically filter out up to 75% of applicants. Our six assessment modules include: value and culture match, personality and work style, ability, situational judgment, and language fluency.

Discover Talogy Hire

Why Talogy

Talent management solutions from start to finish. With constant innovation and endless creativity, Talogy crafts screening, selection and development solutions that are fair and inclusive at their core. Talogy can help you customise a complete talent management programme. Solving for the talent challenges of today, and tomorrow.

Why Talogy

Case studies

At Talogy, we ensure you discover brilliance through your talent management solutions. Explore our testimonials and customer stories to learn why organisations like yours choose Talogy as their trusted talent management partner.
View Case Studies
Talogy blog

Looking for inspiration? Keep up to date on the latest trends in talent management across all industries with the Talogy blog.
Read blogs
Knowledge Hub

Boost your knowledge in hiring processes, leadership assessment, employee engagement, and many other talent management topics in our Knowledge Hub.
Visit Knowledge Hub

How to identify great talent in your selection process

Assessing for great talent within your candidate pool