Assessment

Cornerstone’s Executive Search competency is built on critical priority – fit, or compatibility.

Assessing candidates organizational Fit is crucial to job performance. As a leading executive search firm we recognize this and take pains to define what kind of role the client is looking for.

The usual approach followed by many firms is to conduct a psychometric assessment of the candidates. This reveals information about a candidate’s personality traits. But it is not customized to the organization and the job. At Cornerstone, we aspire to recruit the best talent for our clients and help them retain it. We use psychometric tests and combine it with other tools like Behavioral Interview, 360 degree feedback and assessment center, if required.

As a first step, we use HOGAN, the gold standard in personality tests, encompassing a battery of intensive tests developed by eminent Psychologist Robert Hogan for a comprehensive review of a candidate’s personality. Unlike other tests HOGAN is particularly suited to the workplace and makes a far reaching contribution to candidate assessments. Cornerstone specialists are authorized and certified to administer HOGAN personality assessments. HOGAN uses an array of tests each complementing the other to provide a complete picture of the candidate.

The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) aims to measure the normal or bright-side personality – qualities that describe how we relate to others when we are at our best.

The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) describes the dark side of personality – qualities that derail peoples’ chances of success.

The Motives emerge in times of increased strain and can disrupt relationships, damage reputations and Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) describes personality from the inside – the core goals, values, drivers, and interests that determine what we desire and strive to attain.

The Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory (HBRI) describes reasoning style – the ability to evaluate sets of data, make decisions, solve problems, and avoid repeating past mistakes.

More information on HOGAN can be found at - www.hoganassessments.com

At Cornerstone, we are passionate about providing the right talent and thus we do not stop at personality assessments alone, our specialists go one step further. They create a profile of the specific job and of the hiring company, based on inputs from the hiring manager. Then they can understand meaningful compatibilities between candidates and jobs. Understanding and redefining the clients’ requirement is the most value-added part of our work.

The objective thus is to clarify an individual’s compatibility with a job.

Our sole purpose in Executive Leadership Assessment is to ensure that our clients get a complete understanding of the candidates they look forward to hire. Clients from multifaceted disciplines have approached us to understand avail the depth and breadth of their organizational leadership capabilities. Today our clients are keen to know the quality & potential of the leadership talent they have available to drive their strategic initiatives, be it with regard to their new growth strategy, the integration of an acquisition, expansion of business verticals or the transformation of a key business unit; &further how best they can optimized their existing human resources to attain the long term as well as short term organizational objectives. In the current highly volatile market scenario it is not just the need of the day to have right leadership model, but assessing current capabilities & accomplishments to benchmarked competencies & goals is a fundamental requirement for effective strategy execution.

At Cornerstone we understand which facets of leadership are crucial for your company. Our leadership assessment teams create customized approaches for every client. We ensure consistency by using robust methods, a flexible proprietary model and highly trained, skilled assessors. We also work directly with each individual leader to address their own strengths and values, development areas and alert them to risks and potential derailers.

For more details Please contact Mr. Vijay Karkare, Managing Director - Cornerstone India at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.