We’re constantly telling our clients and prospective clients they can expect to see a normal distribution of Optimize Hire scores, but it can be hard to explain on a brief phone call what that really means and why it’s a good thing. We worked with our Wharton experts to parse it out a little bit further in the infographic below.

It’s a challenging time for recruiters - there are simply more jobs on the market than there are candidates, and many of the best workers are already comfortable in another job. If your job application is too boring or difficult, these passive applicants simply won’t apply, and you could miss out on some amazing talent.

Optimize Hire pre-employment tests evaluate candidates on traits proven by decades of research to predict success at work.  Below, we outline the best and worst predictors of job performance based on the research of the top industrial and organizational psychologists in the world. Sometimes people are surprised by these findings and it’s common for companies to use bad predictors to evaluate candidates. If this is you, consider re-evaluating your process and adopt a strategy to screen candidates based on data-driven solutions.

Interviews are an essential part of any hiring process, and like any major business process they come with their own set of problems. Good interviewers are aware of the biases that are inherent in traditional interviews and look for ways to proactively combat them. We’ve curated this list of tips to help eliminate bias in the hiring process and find the best people for your job.

When managers conduct interviews and read resumes without a more objective piece of input like a pre-employment test, they’re more likely to choose people who remind them of themselves. When we choose people just like us to fill empty positions, we miss out on huge growth opportunities for our teams and our companies.

Creating the hiring system that will help you get the most out of the huge amount of time, energy and money your HR department puts into recruiting will make all the difference. Here are four of the ways we’ve seen this done by our most successful clients.