Candidate Selection

The Solutions 5 Philosophy

Selection of applicants is one of, if not the most, important aspects of building and maintaining a successful organization. Research proves when a person fails in their career in more than 90% of the time that failure is directly attributed to some aspect of human behavior. Individuals do not usually fail because of lack of education, experience, training, or skills. They fail because their personality is not compatible to the behavioral requirements of their career. An organization can invest a significant amount of time and money creating products or services and a successful business. However, if the wrong applicants are hired it will fail or at best, never achieve its potential. In fact, studies show the average company spends $14,000 per new employee on inefficient hiring, processing and training. We can help a small company with 100 employees and 18% turnover save an average of $252,000 per year! With the Winslow Reports, you can minimize hiring guesswork and risk and feel more confident about your employee choices. The Winslow Applicant Selection Reports will significantly increase the probability that applicants your hire will be successful and achieve their maximum potential in your organization.

Questions the Winslow Reports Answer!

The Winslow Reports prepared on the behavior and attitudes of applicants will predict their probability of success in their position. The Winslow Profile measures the 24 personality traits related to success and the Winslow Reports present the assessment results in an easy to understand format. The scores the applicant receives on the Winslow Traits will provide answers to the following primary questions employers want answered:

• Ambition: this trait score tells you if this person is a competitive, goal oriented person who has a strong desire to successful.
• Self-confidence: tells you if the applicant has supreme confidence in him or herself and truly believes they have what it takes to be successful.
• Conscientiousness: tells you if this person places the welfare of management and the organization before their own personal self-interest.

• Coachability: will tell you if this person respects authority figures (their managers) and willingly accepts their leadership and direction.
• Recognition: indicates if this person has an internal motivation to be seen as a desirable person and will act appropriately to receive recognition.
• Trust: trusting individuals are not suspicious and defensive. They openly communicate and believe others are deserving of their trusting nature.
• Flexibility: tells you if this applicant will readily adapt to the company's methods of operation and decisions or be resistant and insist on their own.
• Contentment: lets you know if this is a happy person with a positive disposition, rather than someone who is disenchanted with their life.
• Responsibility: will this individual accept responsibility for the consequences of his or her words and actions or blame others instead.

• Leadership: tells you if this individual believes they are a leader and if they enjoy managing, motivating and being responsible for others.
• Sociability: discloses whether the applicant is a people-oriented extrovert or an introvert who focuses on "things" and avoids contact with others.
• Exhibition: reveals if this person enjoys being the center of attention, someone who is entertaining, demonstrative and a pleasure to be with.
• Nurturance: nurturing individuals are keenly aware of and sensitive to the emotional needs of others and readily respond with sympathy and support.

• Alertness: measures the applicant's inherent ability to learn quickly, understand complex situations and successfully solve problems.
• Structure: indicates how organized their thinking, planning and actions will be. They will be highly mentally structured and disciplined.
• Order: tells you if they will keep their physical surroundings, neat and orderly. They will have a place for everything and everything in its place.
• Control: will determine if they are impulsive and talk or act without thinking, or someone who will control their impulsive behavior.

• Composure: predicts their ability to remain calm and to function normally when problems occur and emotional stress is encountered.
• Tough-mindedness: enables a person to cope with challenges, function in uncomfortable environments and recover quickly from disappointments.
• Autonomy: will disclose if this is a team oriented or team dependent individual, will they contribute and be cooperative or avoid contact with others.

• Sociability: will determine if they enjoy interacting with others and will be perceived as a warm and friendly person others enjoy being with.
• Endurance: tells you if they have the inherent physical energy and persistence required to prospect, make presentations and close sales.
• Assertiveness: enables individuals to persuade others to do what they want and to accept their recommendations; they make things happen.
• Tough-mindedness: equips those who must sell to accept the rejection, disappointments and setbacks that are inevitable in sales situations.

Screening Process

The Winslow Assessment System is a selection tool and not a screening tool. Solutions 5 can help you create a custom screening process to help you narrow it easily down to your top 3 to 5 candidates. Given that the U.S. Department of Labor reveals that 90% of all resumes contain falsehoods, you have to have an objective process to get to the truth. We will partner with your company to create a tailored screening process that will allow you, in combination with on-site interviewing, to narrow the field to only the most qualified candidates for your open positions. We will draw on our network of certified business and executive coaches’ experience and our expertise in Neuro-Linguistic Programming to help you design a powerful set of screening tools that can be applied to your internal processes for the future.

Fill your open positions quickly with an open house career fair and let Solutions 5 do all the work. An open house career fair is one of easiest and most cost effective means for you to get face to face access with highly qualified candidates. These events are entirely private, so you have exclusive access to candidates who are present for one reason only…...to see you and your company. As a leading player in business coaching, training and consulting, Solutions 5 is your one-stop full service source for planning, coordinating, promoting and implementing your open house career fair.

Mindset Dynamics is an alliance of certified business, executive and training coaches/consultants with a wide variety of experience and training. Mindset Dynamics coordinates all the logistics of your open house to ensure your event is successful and hassle free. Program books, literature, event signage, private room facilities, and a catered lunch are all included. Venues are chosen base on convenience, visibility and reputation.

High quality candidates are hand delivered to you without paying high recruiter fees or months of advertising. We have access to many online candidate databases as well as professional organizations, regional websites, e-mail services and local print media.

Job Fair

Instead of the traditional career fair model our job fairs are designed to fill a group of targeted job openings. Using our patented screening process and our powerful selection assessment you will be able to fill your positions with the best candidates.

Each company will be given an adequate room for screening candidates. Company Representative are encouraged to bring additional materials required to efficiently go through the interviewing and screening process.

Events are most frequently promoted through e-mail, online advertising, newspaper, and direct mail. Your company is listed in the event promotions, including but not limited to event programs and e-mail campaigns.

Solutions 5 coordinates all the logistics of the Career Fair to make sure the event is successful and hassle free for your company. Program books, literature, event signage, private room facilities, and even a catered lunch are all included. Venues are chosen base on convenience, visibility and reputation. These events are best for targeting a group of hard to fill openings to help shorten the search and focus our efforts on getting candidates who are interested in those openings specifically.

Solutions 5 conducts research on each job market identifying employment trends, needs and opportunities. We examine industry trends, regional demographics, and company expansions when scheduling job fairs. Our events are strategically organized to have the potential to produce the greatest results for our clients.

High quality candidates are hand delivered to you without paying high recruiter fees or months of advertising. We have access to many online candidate databases as well as professional organizations, regional websites, e-mail services and local print media. In partnership with your company we will design an objective scoring system for your screening process making the day efficient and productive.

Job fairs provide face-to-face meetings with candidates and identify the prospects and shorten the hiring process. Let’s face it, most companies spend hours of unnecessary time searching for candidates that qualify for a second interview. By participating in a Job fair, you are saving your company thousands of dollars and hours of time by condensing all those first interviews into a few fast-paced hours and identifying the top candidates for your unique hiring needs.