Press release - mckinley|resource launches i-trait™ to raise the standard of recruitment

The process of assessing candidates has remained much the same throughout the years sticking to a fairly standard format of reading a CV and a quick interview. Whilst this approach is perceived to work by many businesses, more challenging market conditions make this unsustainable, delivering very poor value for money. What is needed is a more scientific and objective approach that builds a comprehensive profile of a candidate to assess suitability against a particular role and the hiring organisation. A weak candidate with a good CV and interview technique can quickly find themselves hired and three months later find that they are in the wrong role purely because a more robust assessment did not take place at the start.

Martin Dangerfield of mckinley|resource – an innovative recruitment consultancy that is redefining how businesses attract talented individuals believes that i-trait™ is the answer to how organisations attract and retain talent.

“We have always provided our clients with a service led, professional approach to senior level recruitment. In this challenging business climate it is increasingly important to understand and know what skills, potential and motivation lay under the surface as well as the competencies that are determined in an interview. Our newly developed i-trait methodology identifies candidates that will perform in the role today and in the future through our existing talent attraction capability combined with comprehensive assessments of how a candidate will perform in the future not just how they performed in the past” Dangerfield said on the launch of the structured recruitment methodology i-trait™

i-trait™ is a new talent acquisition methodology that allows organisations to increase the number of people successfully recruited into their business using a robust, structured recruitment approach with measurable success criteria. It does this by comprehensively assessing candidates on the basis of their experience, personality and motivation using a combination of personality and motivational profiling and structured interview techniques.

i-trait™ also allows organisations to review their existing teams, looking at the subjective and objective elements of individuals and teams, placing them in a work context and helping organisations develop a true talent management strategy. The i-trait™ methodology can be deployed to help organisations:-

• Create a talent infrastructure and leadership in strategic talent initiatives
• Provide a talent selection and development process based around desired leadership behaviours and competencies
• Enable optimum vision and maximum leverage into the future talent pool
  

Dangerfield added “i-trait comprehensively assesses candidates providing a personality profile, a detailed assessment of their motivation and fit for any particular role using a structured and measurable approach. In addition we invest time up front to ensure you get the candidates your business actually needs not those you think you need by profiling your best existing people. Overall we can significantly improve the successful match of candidates to a role and organisations with the added benefit of a reduction in total recruitment spend. We are looking to improve recruitment standards in the industry and so are also happy to engage with a client’s existing recruitment supply chain, raising their standards and adding true value to our client relationship; a true trusted advisor.”

For more information about how i-trait™ could work for your business call Martin Dangerfield on +44(0)161.955.3647 or email i-trait@mckinleyresource.com,

about mckinley|resource®
mckinley|resource is an innovative recruitment practice providing executive search, recruitment, talent advisory and project resourcing services. Delivering full UK and European coverage, we focus on identifying and engaging talented individuals within the IT services, IT outsourcing, management consultancy and technology marketplaces.

about i-trait™

• Pro-active search based sourcing techniques
• Complete review of multiple aspects of a candidate’s personality, motivations and ambitions ‘Best of breed’ profiling tools combined with structured interviews and market knowledge allowing organisations to identify and retain people that are appropriate for the role and the organisation
• Overall reduction in direct recruitment costs and management time