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      DNA Role Benchmarking Analysis

      This article is for anyone involved in making informed people decisions in the hiring and team-building process, especially in designing a role and benchmarks for that role: Leaders, Human Resources, Consultants.

      This article is for anyone involved in making informed people decisions in the hiring and team-building process:

      • Leaders – to make informed strategic decisions based on benchmarking data to inform the talents required for a role being hired for.
      • Human Resources – required to develop and oversee the need to fill a position on a team based on role benchmarking data.
      • Consultants - who are working with Leaders and Human Resources on building and applying a role benchmarking process for all recruiting and people management needs.

       

      Common Questions: 

      1. How can a role be better designed to improve the hiring process?
      2. Is there sufficient information available to design a benchmark for the role?
      3. What are the key behavioral talent requirements for performance in this role?
      4. Are there any unique factors or requirements for this role in our organization?

      Solution Overview:

      The design of a customized role benchmark enables leaders to establish the requirements more specifically for a role. However, building a customized benchmark requires the availability of specific information and enough people who have performed the role successfully and not as successfully in the past.

      Using benchmarking data to design a role helps businesses improve employee talent use, streamline organizational tasks, and identify areas for process improvement. Without it, decision-makers lack essential information for critical role hiring, impacting success and productivity.

      DNA Behavior has developed a robust benchmarking process that provides decision-makers with valuable insights for selecting suitable candidates for specific roles within your organization. This comprehensive checklist ensures that each position's requirements, competencies, and responsibilities are meticulously defined, facilitating a more effective alignment between candidates and roles.

      Role Benchmarking Decision Aid:

      The DNA Behavior Benchmark Decision Aid has been carefully structured to help decision-makers objectively reach a “Yes or No” conclusion about the capability to benchmark a role for use in their hiring process.                                                       

      1. The goal is to have a definitive Yes/No answer.                                                                       
      2. A "Yes" means a customized role benchmark can be established for determining candidate suitability in the hiring process.
      3. A "No" means a definite No, or there are reservations.
      4. A "No" can trigger - more research, probing, or consideration by the organization. Further, it may mean using the standard DNA Behavior benchmarks.                                                                                                                                                                                                     

      Sub-Decision Framework (refer to each tab for questions on each sub-decision):

      The decision aid includes a specific sub-decision framework, with each of the five sub-questions requiring a "Yes" or "No" answer. If there is a "No" at any point, that indicates that the role cannot be benchmarked for use in the hiring process or more work is required before a “Yes” answer can be given.                                                                                                                          

      1. Is there sufficient information known about the role to benchmark it?
      2. Is the role sufficiently capable of being defined?
      3. Has the information needed to determine the benchmark for the role been obtained?
      4. Is a benchmark able to be measured for the role?
      5. Has the process for using the role benchmark been defined?                  

      The sub-questions are supported by a series of specific questions on each schedule of the Role Benchmarking Team Decision Aid to assist the decision-makers in coming to an objective conclusion.

      DNA Role Benchmarking Decision Aid

       

      For more information about the overall DNA Behavior Hiring Performance, please head to https://landing.dnabehavior.com/hiring to download the White Paper