Talent Screener | SHL
Sort the best from the rest
with realistic, job-relevant
assessment
SHL Talent Screener
By presenting job candidates with realistic situations they would face in a specific
role and measuring their responses, Talent Screener assesses the behaviours or
competencies that lead to good job performance.
Benefits include:
• Reduced cost and time to hire by screening out unsuitable candidates earlier
• Fairer selection through objective, science-based assessment
• Improved candidate experience and better prediction of on-the-job performance,
as directly relevant to the role
• Enhanced employer brand through use of online multimedia
Talent Screener helps businesses make better hiring decisions. For example, it
can help manage large numbers of applicants for a position, identify which, out of
a number of roles, is best suited to a particular candidate, or measure his or her fit
to an organisation’s core values.
Real business outcomes
Talent Screener can be designed to fit to any job role, job family or organisational
values. SHL has adapted the solution to clients across a wide range of industries,
who have recorded business benefits such as:
• 61% reduction in cost per applicant hired
• 76% of high scorers subsequently rated as outstanding at six month appraisal
• £1.5 million saved in recruitment costs
• 30,000 man hours saved in the recruitment process
Better candidate experience
• Provides a realistic job preview, encouraging suitable applicants and discouraging
unsuitable ones
• Candidates see the test as fairer, as it is highly relevant to the role
• The use of popular multimedia technology makes the test engaging and fun to
complete
Cost-effective, fair,
accurate
Popular with candidates
Deliverable in a wide
range of languages
Customised to your
requirements or fully
bespoke solutions
2D/3D animation or
video options
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How it works
Candidates are given a variety of realistic situations likely to be encountered in the
role and asked to choose the most and/or least effective response. The assessment
can be delivered online in a text based format, as a video or even as a 2D/3D
animation. Each candidate’s results are then benchmarked against a relevant
comparison group and given a percentile score.
Enhance your simulations with multimedia
Multimedia Talent Screeners are popular with candidates, given the prevalence
of these technologies in other areas.
SHL can build a simulation entirely custom-built to the role, your brand and work
environment, or adapt an existing one from our extensive library of industry or
role-specific simulations. We can tailor the simulation to your corporate brand, so
that even the avatars’ uniforms and work setting reflect those of your organisation.
2D, 3D or video?
2D animation
Uses two dimensional characters and backgrounds to illustrate the scenario,
accompanied by dialogue and other audio as needed. The movement of the
characters is typically limited.
Talent Screener | SHL
Bradford District
Care Trust in the UK
implemented a specially
designed SHL Talent
Screener and expects to
reduce 2012 recruitment
cost by 40% thanks to
this investment.
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3D animation
Uses three dimensional characters (avatars) and backgrounds to illustrate the
scenario, accompanied by dialogue and other audio as needed. The avatars and props
have full motion capability.
Video
Uses live actors and scenes to present the scenario.
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“We sift applications
more efficiently now
and identify applicants
who are a better fit. We
know this will deliver
improved patient care,
which is what it is all
about.”
Bradford District Care Trust
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Making it happen
SHL will work closely with you to design the assessment, ensuring it assesses the
competencies or values most critical to the role and your organisation.
After this analysis and solution design, we will trial the Talent Screener with existing
staff to validate the assessment and ensure it identifies those with exactly the right
attributes. Following implementation, we will evaluate the project’s success with you,
helping you articulate the business outcomes to your stakeholders.
Talent Screener is available as a packaged offering, which uses our extensive range
of question banks developed for a wide range of roles including graduate recruits,
customer service and retail. Alternatively, we can customise those questions to
your requirements or, for less common roles, build a fully bespoke solution.
Talent Screener: example scenario
The candidate is presented with realistic situations likely to be encountered in
the role and asked to choose the most and/or least effective response.
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“By using virtual
scenarios we feel we can
assess rich behaviour
and experience data in
far less time.”
CenturyLink
For more information
visit shl.com or talk
to your SHL account
manager.
25 million
assessments
every year
Organisations that understand and maximise
their people’s potential achieve outstanding
results. SHL gives you the insights to make
better decisions about your people.
We call this People Intelligence,
Business Results.