Why did we design SnapShot?

SnapShot is a professionally designed, legally defensible and low cost pre-employment screening tool dedicated to efficiently identifying potential success stories. We designed SnapShot to help employers create a "snapshot" of their applicants, based on personality traits that have been selected to reflect an organization’s unique culture and current workforce. Recent research suggests that strong person-job fit and person-organization fit promote not only improved individual contributions but also increased organizational performance.

How does SnapShot work?

Since every organization is unique, it is imperative to create a valid model upon which to base a SnapShot assessment. Initially, our psychologists will work with your organization to analyze 13 personal attributes that contribute to a successful job performance, including:

Calmness Stability Resilience Learning Agility Creativity

Dutifulness Reliability Leadership Confidence Poise

Sociability Gregariousness Friendliness

To create a hiring profile of current star performers, the culture-specific SnapShot test is then administered to a representative sample of the workforce in a target job, at no additional cost to the organization. By creating norms around the highest performers in the target job, standards are set against which all new hires can be measured. These norms create the "high potential hiring profile." By validating potential employees' assessments against the sample norms of the current workforce, the entire process is legitimized and therefore protects employers from exposure to any legal ramifications for improper hiring procedures.

Once an applicant has been offered an interview with the organization, he or she is directed to the SnapShot page on the Matrix website (if there is no internet availability, paper and pencil tests are available). The applicant completes the short but comprehensive questionnaire, and a report is generated by one of our psychologists, and delivered to the interviewer(s) within 24 hours.

The finished SnapShot Applicant Report provides the hiring manager with information critical to making a sound hiring decision:

• Insight into how the applicant’s personal characteristics match the personality requirements of the job
• An indication of how the applicant’s personal characteristics compare to the high potential hiring profile
• An overall "Compatibility Rating" that will provide the manager with a quick and easy method of determining the applicant’s probability of success
• Job relevant interview questions targeted to provide more insight into an applicant’s personal characteristics

Our goal was to create a continuum of psychological services that would help select, on-board, and retain human capital. SnapShot, a cost effective and time efficient tool designed to assist in your employee selection process and thus reduce employee turnover, is the realization of that goal.

For more information, please contact Dr. Chip Tell at 614/475-9500 or 800/886-1171
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