The Competency Model: A Blueprint for Success

It is often easy to identify candidates who have the technical and functional skills needed to perform, but how do you measure other critical capabilities? Which candidates are entrepreneurial, team-oriented and good team leaders? Which are results driven? Who are the effective decision makers? The foundation of our work as a search firm is to help clients carefully craft a competency model that becomes a blueprint for successfully managing and executing the search. In creating a competency model, we explore a position's unique dimensions, special needs and required abilities, as well as the organizational culture and context. We increase your chances of selecting the best person for a position by:

		Meeting with our client to analyze the work style, performance characteristics and skills necessary for the position.
		Reviewing work activities to help determine the goals and objectives facing candidates, as well as identifying the knowledge, technical skills and work experience they must possess.
		Determining other team members' strengths and weaknesses.
		Confirming the position's already established competencies.

Six to eight competencies are usually enough to provide a concrete outline of the capabilities that candidates must have to deliver superior performance in your organization. Once constructed, the competency model provides an invaluable benchmark against which candidates can be compared and contrasted in order to find the best match.