This national nonprofit provides support services to people with disabilities and their families so they can fully and equally participate in their communities and every aspect of society.  They keep their commitments to creating solutions and changing lives through comprehensive social services: outpatient rehabilitation, early childhood intervention, workforce development services, and community and housing services.   

Challenge: Leadership Change

Finding the right CEO for an organization as important this one was a big deal. Knowing the decision was critical to their continuing success, the nonprofit decided to strengthen the screening process by adding scientific assessment.  Their goal was to quickly identify which candidates would provide the best strategic leadership to the organization and lead the current growth of the organization by setting priorities and implementing great operational systems.  The board wanted accurate, detailed, and easy to use information to find the right person for this key position.  They chose Job Search Hawaii.

Solution: Job Search Hawaii

The nonprofit’s Vice President of Human Resources Human Resources described her experience this way, “Using Job Search Hawaii was remarkable – Job Search Hawaii results are accurate, easy-to-use, and the Job Search Hawaii Quick Launch really is fast. Job Search Hawaii made a big, positive difference in our CEO selection process!”  

For HR, the transactional workload of managing candidates and Board members was reduced by more than 50% - no more managing emailed resumes and contact information because all applicant material is automatically collected in the nonprofit’s account.  The VP said, “I don’t know how I could have managed this important decision process without Job Search Hawaii! It would have taken a big part of each workday just to keep track of candidates and share information among the Board members – with Job Search Hawaii we managed the whole process from our dashboard.”

The Board Chair agreed. “Job Search Hawaii delivers a great tool that allowed the search committee to easily identify the most qualified candidates - those who closely matched the CEO Job Formula. The system is accurate and really streamlined the review process." 

 To reduce time to hire, they decided to use Job Search Hawaii as the first step in their review of 70 applicants, before reviewing résumés or conducting screening interviews.  Job Search Hawaii instantly compared each candidate both to the nonprofit’s benchmark CEO Job Formula and to every other candidate in the pool.  The Job Search Hawaii dashboard then displayed a candidate Match List listing each candidate by strength of match to the job.  

With all candidate data accessible through the web, Board members were able to review applicant information from anywhere. They could view detailed individual Job Match reports, résumés, candidate responses to the nonprofit’s custom screening questions, and candidate contact information - all organized to support an efficient and effective screening process.  

Bottom Line

Job Search Hawaii helps clients scientifically and accurately predict each candidate’s future performance, so they build a team of high performers.  Job Search Hawaii delivers on-demand Job Matching information for every candidate using the three most predictive factors: Learning Strengths, Work Style Preferences, and Work Culture match.  In real time, the Job Search Hawaii Job Matching system identifies the people who will be up to 50% more productive than average employees.  So, when recruiting and referral campaigns deliver candidates, Job Search Hawaii keeps you focused on the ones that matter.

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