How Does Searchlight Utilize Self Reflections?
With Searchlight, we leverage self reflections to surface a candidate's self-perception on their strengths and opportunities, cultural preferences, and work motivations in order to assess their alignment with the role and organization. These self reflections can be conducted in tandem with references or as a discrete step in the hiring process.
Our customers report that self reflections improves:
Hiring quality by asking key questions about Soft Skills, Cultural Alignment, and Work Motivations in the hiring process that may not be consistently asked in an interview.
Hiring effectiveness by surfacing critical decision factors a candidate is considering for a job offer. For instance, we measure work motivations with self assessments, pinpointing the candidate’s most important attributes of the job (e.g., job title, impact, learning). These insights enable recruiters and hiring managers to tailor the job offer letter to the motivations of the job candidate.
Hiring efficiency when used as a mechanism to sort candidates in the pipeline. For instance, those whose self reflections indicate a low cultural alignment can be deprioritized for late stage interviews compared to those with strong cultural alignment.