PXT and Job Fit at a University

An institution of higher learning wanted to hire workers who would be successful as enrollment counselors. ProfileXT's job match percent, which offered the institution an indication of good performance when measured by job fit, used a "lead to enrollment" score to help determine top and bottom performers in the position.

Participants
The organisation chose 64 employees for the performance analysis. The results, which ranked the workers by their scores on the "lead to enrollment" question, revealed a strong linear relationship between job performance and the percent match to the pattern. This means that the higher a worker's percent match to the pattern, the greater the probability he or she would achieve a high performance score.

Sixty-four workers participated in the analysis, and they were evenly divided-32 in the top performer category (84 percent) and 32 in the bottom performer niche (16 percent).

Job Match Pattern
The pattern proved excellent at selecting the top enrollment counselors. The job match pattern found that 23 of the 32 top-performing counselors, or 71.9 percent, had a high probability of performing at or above the 84th percentile on the "lead to enrollment" question. When the organisation added retention to the performance question, 75 percent of top performers (24 or 32) had a high probability of working at or above the 84th percentile.

Summary
When an enrollment counselor's percent match to the job match pattern was high, he or she was more likely to perform on a top level. Seventy-two percent of top performers ranked high on enrollments alone.

The job match portion of the ProfileXT® helps establish effective benchmarks for organisations that want to hire top employees. By using a job match pattern, leaders can quickly identify where individuals will likely fit into positions and where they might have to make adjustments to perform well. This information is important to job placement, training and overall planning.