What are you Not Seeing?

Hard skills are easy to evaluate.​

​But companies often don't know how a candidate's soft skills fit with their team until after significant resources have been spent on them.

• True soft skills are hidden behind candidates' impression management.
• Candidates tell you what they think you want to hear — not what you want to know.
• Poor fits are a huge source of wasted resources for your clients.

As a recruiter responsible for sending companies top quality candidates, you need your selected candidates to be not just immediately attractive, but prove themselves as sound long-term team players.

How can you give yourself a unique competitive edge while reducing mis-hires?

46%

of hires are considered failed by the 18 month mark

89%

of the cited reasons? Soft skills.

Impression Management

"the psychological term for the mental effort we put towards trying to impress by filtering, adjusting and exaggerating the things we say and do"

The Soft Skills Problem

Anyone can write on their resume that they're a great communicator. A problem-solver. A team-player. But traditionally, it's been exceptionally hard to get proof.

• Well-rehearsed interview anecdotes can sound good, but are they representative of actual day-to-day behavior?
• Personality tests might appear to bring some rigor to the process, but you're still relying on self-reported answers to transparent questions.
• You risk losing track of an actual perfect hire by them fading into the noise of an ineffective hiring process 

AlignVR's Recruitment Revolution

This is where our advanced virtual reality hiring solution comes in.

​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 recruitment firms a unique, unfiltered peek inside candidates' actual personalities.

Verification

• Observe how the resume claims align with actions
• See how people interact in real-time, unfiltered
• Confirm key behaviors without impression management

Evaluation

• Identify where the soft skill gaps lie
• Compare how different candidates work together to solve problems
• Spot undesired traits at the interview stage

 Insight

• Understand a candidate's true strengths and weaknesses
• Peek through to their authentic personality
• Make better decisions based on real data

The Reinvented Interview Scenario

Using the AlignVR recruitment tool, groups of four candidates put on a wireless VR headset. In a clear space, they are then able to walk around a virtual environment and interact with objects using two handheld controllers.

The scenarios are unlike anything they will be familiar with — which along with the technology, creates an immersive experience that encourages them to focus on the tasks they see. Cut off from the interview environment, this cognitive load suppresses that layer of impression management and their true soft skills emerge. You're able to go beyond what a candidate presents to you and see their personalities in action.

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?

See the whole candidate

Having observed the candidates working together, you can follow up and engage them in discussion around the soft skills they displayed in a post-session interview.

If they said they're a great communicator but they withheld information about a puzzle? You can ask them about how they handled it. You may also be looking for a variety of personality types — you can spot the natural leaders, the competitors, those who take direction, those who butt heads — and can discuss the experience from those angles.

On top of all this? The response to the VR sessions from candidates is overwhelmingly positive. They report being more interested in the company than they were beforehand, and find the sessions make the experience stand out in their job search.

Step into the Forefront of Recruitment

With AlignVR, your recruitment firm is in-tune with the latest developments in the hiring industry.

You send more amazing candidates to your clients — 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, and let's talk about how we can get you set up with the latest in recruitment innovation.