10/28/2021
If you have enough data, it can be used for hiring better employees.
When building a house or renovating, a project manager is always required to coordinate the materials, costs, labour, engineers, bylaws, and more.
These days, skilled labour and project managers are a scarce resource. So how do you know if the applicant for a project manager job is the right person for that role?
Data to the rescue.
If you’re fortunate enough to have large numbers of project managers working for you, you can collect data that profiles WHY they’re the best performers. If you know what makes them great, then you can apply that "filter" when hiring the next project manager.
There are many services that can be applied to sorting such data. Here are a couple: KOLBE measures instinctive strengths; or try Predictive Index, a behavioural assessment tool.
Use these to find commonalities among best performers in your business, then apply that filter when hiring.
Alair Homes has several hundred project managers across the country and uses big data to identify great talent.