MAYDAY Recruitment are applying a lens to candidate insights and helping Australian businesses make better faster hiring decisions.
We know the importance of culture fit, skillset and aptitude to learn when assessing talent, so we’re diving deeper, using the latest in gamified technology, and empowering our customers to make precise, confident hiring decisions. We’ll propel your recruitment process into the 21st Century, prioritising our award-winning candidate experience, and representing your brand authentically, with professionalism.
THE WHY?
How will you adapt in a candidate rich market?
Recruiting in a candidate rich market isn’t easy… with more applicants than ever, finding the perfect person can feel overwhelming and often impossible.
In many ways having a large number of applications to screen and resumes to review can further complicate the selection process; quantity doesn’t often align with quality.
In a market, with strong candidate supply it’s vital to ensure you have appropriate methods in place to quickly and efficiently assess whether a candidate will “fit” with the role you are recruiting for, but more broadly, will they add value to your organisation? Understanding the skills and competencies you’re hiring for, and how to properly assess them can save huge amounts of time and money in correcting costly hiring mistakes. Making the wrong hiring decisions will impact your culture, your people and your finances.
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THE WHAT?
Learning Agility is the new in-demand soft skill
Industry experts agree, understanding the level at which a candidate learns, solves problems and understands instructions is a high predictor of success for a broad range of roles.
Learning agility is becoming increasingly important as a set of skills and behaviours that define how well a candidate will be able to keep up with ever-changing job demands. How well an individual learns and can be coached will deliver results for your business and their own professional development.
There are many ways to assess learning agility, but the trick is to try and make it fun – ensuring you’re creating an enjoyable rather than laborious candidate experience.
Being able to confidently assess a candidate’s learning agility could become your biggest competitive advantage.
Learning Agility
At MAYDAY we define learning agility as the combination of ability to learn, the cognitive skills or basic intellect that mean a person can learn quickly from new patterns, rules and trends, and aptitude to learn, the behavioural competencies that mean a person has the desire or intent to learn new things quickly.
Did you know?
Researchers from various universities over many years have measured the predictive validity of unstructured interviews. Their findings predict you have less than a 20% chance of selecting the best candidate for your position if you only use an unstructured interview.
THE HOW?
MAYDAY’s unique gamified suite of assessments has been developed to quickly and accurately assess the skills and competencies you can’t see on paper; everything from multi-tasking to emotional intelligence and from personality to culture fit.
Save huge amounts of time and money in correcting costly mistakes by hiring talent who will live and breathe your values, and learn and grow with your business.
We use a combination of gamified assessments that challenge the candidates’ cognitive abilities in an engaging way; think puzzles, codebreakers or pathfinding games. In addition to assessing specific technical competencies we can ensure your chosen candidate demonstrates learning agility, ensuring they will achieve productivity sooner.
Make hiring decisions supported by scientifically validated assessment data.
How does MAYDAY Magnify work?
We integrate MAYDAY Magnify seamlessly into your recruitment process and MAYDAY Experience.
Our team will help identify the critical success factors for your vacancy, and select the appropriate combination of scientifically validated tests. Shortlisted candidates will complete the tailored assessment flow and subsequently, you will receive a comprehensive, easy to read report that details the candidates’ scores, performance classification and suitability for the role; it’s that simple.
Magnify will enable you to…
- Base interview questions on detailed candidate insights
Hire with confidence - Assess learning agility
- Gain a competitive advantage
- Create a superior candidate experience
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.'' Alvin Toffler (1970)
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Gamified Assessment Suite
Contact us now to find out more about MAYDAY Magnify and our gamified suite of assessments.
10 mins
Personality
Our highly adaptlable personality questionnaire is based on the HEXACO inventory, the most accepted and commonly used Big5 model, updated to include an extra dimension: Honesty - Humility.
10 mins
Multitasking
Our multitasking module assesses candidates' ability to multi-task in a gamified way - it includes two skill games that assess short term memory and challenge candidates on their ability to switch task rapidly.
5 mins
Culture Fit
A cultural fit assessment will help you uncover. what is of real importance to your candidated and see how it compares to your organisation. Utilising a cultural fit assessment can increase your retention rates by hiring candidates who are a true cultural fit for your team.
20 mins
Microsoft Office
Our highly interactive Microsoft Office tests demonstrate exactly what a candidate does or doesn't know. The applicant will perform tasks using the menus, tool bars, and short cut keys across the full suite of Microsoft Office products, as appropriate to the role.
6 mins
Attention To Detail
The perceptual Speed and Accuracy test acts as a predictor of success in jobs that require the ordering, sorting and verifying of information. This measures how well candidates can work effectively on a new unknown tasks under pressure.
10 mins
Typing Accuracy
Strong typing skills are a valid predictor of performance in jobs that require computer skills. What's more, typing exercise can be used to measure motor coordination which is an important indicator of cognitive function.
9 mins
Verbal Accuracy
Verbal Reasoning has predictive value for activities involving verbal insight, abstract thinking and analytical problem-solving. This assessment measures a candidate's ability to discover connections or relationships between a number of verbal concepts.
24 mins
Numerical Reasoning
By evaluating the ability to discover and recognize systems in numerical sequences, the Numerical Reasoning assessment predicts performance for jobs that require numerical insight, abstract thinking and analytical problem-solving.
30 mins
The Brain Game
The BrainGame series of challenging games that test candidates' cognitive capacities and problem-solving abilities. Each game consists of a number of questions with time limit for each question all 3 games must be included, with approximately 30 minutes required to complete the suite
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