Recruiting by Personality: The Path to High-Performing Teams Aligned with Company Culture

🔍 In today’s professional world, personality-based recruitment is becoming increasingly crucial for companies concerned with building strong and cohesive teams. Rather than focusing solely on degrees and technical skills, recruiting based on personality allows for the selection of candidates who not only possess the required skills for the position but also share the values and vision of the company.

🤝 The importance of personality-based recruitment lies in its numerous benefits for companies. Firstly, it promotes cultural alignment by recruiting individuals who share the company’s values and culture, thereby strengthening a sense of belonging and commitment to the mission and objectives. Secondly, it leads to improved performance, as teams composed of individuals with complementary and aligned personalities are more inclined to collaborate effectively, solve problems creatively, and produce high-quality results. Lastly, personality-based recruitment helps reduce turnover by minimizing the risk of cultural misalignment and premature employee departure.

🌱 Personality-based recruitment offers benefits not only for companies but also for candidates. It fosters professional fulfillment by providing candidates with the opportunity to work in a culturally adapted environment, thereby increasing their chances of developing their skills and achieving their career goals. Additionally, it contributes to job satisfaction by allowing candidates to work in an environment where they share the same values, feel appreciated and respected, thereby promoting a better work-life balance. Finally, personality-based recruitment facilitates personal development by enabling candidates to interact with colleagues with complementary personalities, thereby fostering the development of interpersonal skills, gaining new perspectives, and progressing in their personal development.

🛠 To effectively implement personality-based recruitment, it is essential to follow several strategies:

• Define the company’s core values and determine the desired personality profile based on these values.
• Use assessment tools such as personality tests and evaluation questionnaires (SERUM Behavioral Assessment, found in the Supplementary Methods tab) to evaluate candidates based on their fit with the desired personality profile.
• To fully integrate personality assessment into the recruitment process, it is recommended to include behavioral interviews and situational exercises to assess candidates’ interpersonal skills and cultural compatibility.
• Involving team members in the recruitment process is an effective strategy for assessing the compatibility of candidates’ personalities with those of the existing team.

🌟 Recruiting by personality enables companies to build high-performing, cohesive teams aligned with their culture and values. This recruitment process also offers significant benefits to candidates by promoting their professional fulfillment, job satisfaction, and personal development. By implementing effective strategies to assess candidates’ personalities and integrating this dimension into the recruitment process, companies can enhance their ability to attract, retain, and develop the best talents.

🤗 As a certified professional coach and soft skills trainer, I assist recruiters and managers in understanding their employees’ behavioral skills through the SERUM behavioral assessment, enabling them to recruit profiles that match the position and team expectations and improve their management based on the different profiles of employees.

🌈 Let’s remember that diversity of profiles in a company is fundamental; let’s make good use of it.