Break down impression management

The biggest problem when hiring people? Interviewing is a broken system.

• Even with a rigorous traditional interview process, you often don't get a true understanding of who a candidate is until months after the decision.
• Candidates tell you what they think you want to hear — not what you want to know.
  
• A mis-hire doesn't just fail to take the company forwards — they wrench it backward and consume valuable resources.

Hard skills you can confirm formal qualifications for and test. But soft skills? People have rehearsed answers to your questions, they've studied your personality tests, and they're ready for your traditional exercises.

They're engaging in impression management because they want the job. But you need the candidate who can do the job.

46%

of hires are considered failed by the 18 month mark

89%

of the cited reasons? Soft skills.

AlignVR reduces mis-hires and identifies more reliable high-performers.

How Our VR Hiring Tool Works

​We've developed a series of virtual reality challenges, tasks, and tests that suppress the conscious and subconscious tendency for candidates to engage in impression management — allowing HR departments and hiring managers a unique, unfiltered peek inside candidates' actual personalities.

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Select Your Candidates

• Post your position and promote it how you normally would.
  
• Screen your candidates to create a group you'd like to hear more from.
• As much as possible, ensure you have a good hard skills match.

Run the vR Session

• Invite your shortlist to your AlignVR session.
• Observe your candidates as they interact throughout a series of VR challenges and see their personalities emerge.
• Watch how their soft skill claims do and do not match up with their actual behaviours.

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Engage deeper in the interview

• Whether you do multiple rounds of interviews or not, follow up directly after the VR session with your notes.
• Go deeper based on what you saw. Ask about their actions, their teamwork skills, the roles they adopted.
  
• Even after the VR, candidates are more open and natural allowing you a more authentic understanding of who they are.

AlignVR slots right into your existing interview process. You add one new step that informs everything that comes afterward.

You'll be surprised at just how illuminating the information you get out of the VR session truly is. You'll put it to use to elevate outstanding personalities, eliminate poor culture fits, and make your final selection.

Candidate Claims Put to the Test

This is just a sample of the kinds of claims you can watch for during an AlignVR session:

"Strong communication skills"

Did they talk through the problem with others? Did they keep information to themselves? Did they communicate what they were doing? How often did they speak?

"Team player"

Did they contribute to the solution? Did they collaborate or hamper progress? Were others comfortable working with them?

"Adaptability"

How well did they solve problems? Did they try different approaches or fail to adapt? Did they experiment, or sit back and watch?

"Creative problem solver"

Did they successfully work with the rules of the scenario? Were they curious about the environment? Did they take to the challenge or did they get distracted?

"Self-starter"

Did the candidate take the initiative or wait for direction? Did they work to gather and share information? How much did they accomplish, and did they clash with others?

And it's not just hiring...

You can also put this technology to use with team building and coaching sessions for your existing staff. Foster better and more productive relationships by exploring how they worked together on unexpected and novel challenges!

Hire Better in Alberta

We know the Albertan hiring landscape because, well, we're Albertan ourselves. Our solution has been calibrated to help Albertan organizations identify the soft skill qualities we value.

With AlignVR, you find more incredible, high-performing team members — and identify more mis-hires before they become a problem. You've left the long-broken unreliable tests and techniques of the past behind and taken a bold step into a better future.

Contact us today. Let's talk about how we can get you set up with the latest in recruitment innovation.