Framework for Selection Success

DDI’s Framework for Selection Success is founded on 35 years of research, validation evidence, and practical experience.  DDI systems have been used by thousands of organizations worldwide to select more than 21 million people—an average of 8,000 a day.

Business Needs to Business Outcomes

Each day, organizations around the world make critical business decisions. Often, these decisions center around people, such as:

  • Strengthening current talent (e.g., boosting productivity, improving retention, aligning the organizational priorities with
    strategic competencies)
  • Rapidly building workforce capacity (e.g., sales force expansion, start-up facility)\
  • Identifying high-potential candidates (e.g., new hires, mergers, promotions)
  • Supporting a shift in strategic direction (e.g., transaction-based sales to consultative sales)

The Framework for Selection Success is designed to achieve these critical business outcomes by focusing on three key actions—Define Success, Design Systems, and Apply Information—while systematically building best practices into hiring and promotion processes. Organizations that follow this approach, and support it through effective communications, organizational alignment, skill development, individual accountability, and comprehensive measurement, are more likely to realize desired business outcomes.

Define Success

When job requirements are clearly defined, and linked to business strategy, you are better equipped to select the right people for the right jobs the first time. DDI emphasizes a holistic view of performance:

  • What you can do (competencies)
  • What you’ve done (experience)
  • What you know (knowledge)
  • Who you are (motivation)

Design System

Past behavior is proven to accurately predict future performance. Your assessments and decisions about individual candidates will have infinitely greater accuracy when you standardize objective data gathering processes, and utilize multiple techniques—including test batteries, behavior-based interviewing, simulation exercises, multirater assessments, and more.

Apply Information

Effective data analysis will help you make better, faster decisions about hiring and promoting. Utilize this information to make sound hiring decisions, on-board associates by helping them focus on what’s most important in their new role, and accelerate development to reach higher levels of performance faster.