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WriteCandidate Advantage™
Make sure your new employees
have the skills they need (and the ethics you need) to give your company a competitive advantage. Use New Art Technologies’ WriteCandidate Advantage™ to find out
if your prospective employee can communicate effectively, has a command of their subject matter - and exhibits a high degree of ethics.
It’s hard to select the perfect candidate. While you are making a cursory effort to ensure they have the technical and managerial skills to get the job done, don’t
forget to also check their ethics and communications skills. A credit report and a personal interview go just so far in ferreting out those who might do your company
harm. A resume does not demonstrate that they know how to communicate effectively with your clients and their peers via the written word, nor that they have in-depth
command of the subject matter.
Hiring the wrong employee is costly. Studies suggest that it can cost a whole year's salary. Still other studies indicate it can cost up to 200% of an employee’s base
salary to replace them. Unfortunately, the pool of qualified candidates has gotten smaller. The American educational system is in great decline, and those who do
graduate are not graduating with the requisite skillsets or the willingness to do the work assigned to them. Couple this with the trend towards for-profit colleges and
“students as customers”, which degrades the learning process and tends to lead to grade inflation and a lowering of standards.
In a recent New York Times article, Samuel Freedman all too well detailed how high school teachers are being forced to pass students who merely show up for class. If
you’re in the market for college graduates, the news is even worse. Our drift towards what Hersh & Merrow refer to as “narrowly educated” college graduates cannot be
easily reconciled with our new global economy’s demand for knowledge workers, particularly those educated in the sciences, technology and math (STEM).
As the Washington, DC-based Business-Higher Education Forum (http://www.bhef.com/initiatives/securing.cfm) puts it, “America’s strong historical investment in education
and research helped foster the development of a highly educated workforce long the envy of the world for its ability to innovate and conquer seemingly intractable
problems. However, America’s advantage over its international counterparts in science, technology and innovation is diminishing.”
The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education’s report on the future of U.S. Higher Education offered a searing commentary on how
America’s colleges are failing. Latzer’s 2004 study, aptly titled “Failure of the General Education Curriculum”, chronicled a sea change in the university-level core
curriculums. Latzer found that mathematics is no longer required at 62% of the institutions studied, and 30% do not require a writing course.
This trends towards dumbing down the curriculum is unfortunately coupled with a trend towards diminishing ethics. ABC News, in an article entitled, “Big Cheats on
Campuses”, details an increasing trend towards copying and pasting from the Internet – or even paying for “custom-written” papers. What’s telling is that the
interviewed students felt absolutely no remorse.
Universities require students to write an essay to get into college, so why shouldn’t your prospective candidates do the same? When you select the WriteCandidate
Advantage™ your company is provided with a set of essay questions tailored to your specific industry. The candidate will write the essay from the comfort of his or
her home and submit it to the HR department at a designated time. At this point, the essay is submitted to the WriteCandidate™ system, where it is evaluated and
checked against an extensive collection of articles, papers, and essays to determine if any plagiarism has taken place. HR then receives a report evaluating the
candidate’s command over English, as well as the subject matter. Finally, HR will receive an assessment of the candidate’s “originality”, which is an index based on how
much or little the candidate copied from the Internet or other sources. The originality index is an excellent gauge of the candidate’s honesty.
To receive a free sample assessment call 888.873.1422 or email us
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