Professional Placement

Perpetual Development can help you identify best practices and best tools to dramatically improve your selection and retention results. Most organizations have come to grips with the significant downside to hiring poorly. The problem occurs when proven talent management strategies haven't been developed by the company for retaining top talent. Perpetual Development can change that.

Based on your specific organization, its culture and market dynamics, Perpetual Development will recommend a unique selection and retention process that is rooted in the expertise of their consultants and scientifically validated assessment tools and analysis.As a result, you will:

• Be focused and prepared for positional interviews
  
  
• Have clarity concerning the talent profile you want to hire and how they align with your company culture
  
  
• Predict most successful candidates based on behavioral style assessments
  
  
• Utilize behavioral insight to improve employee orientation results
  
  
• Recognize what values, motivators, interests and attitudes will drive performance improvement and success over time
  
  
• Identify best types of rewards will help retain your top performers
  
  

You may have one critical selection or retention concern. Or, you may have an entire hiring system and retention program to establish or improve. PDI understands the make-or-break stakes on the line when your business and profit perfromance are challenged by selection and retention issues. 

The Perpetual Development Talent Management Model

Perpetual Development's strategies are specifically geared toward identifying highly qualified middle and upper management, and sales candidates. Our process goes beyond evaluating the traditional hard skills needed in a position. We can accurately measure a candidates soft skills related to the job benchmark including the behaviors, motivators, values, capacities, competencies, emotional intelligence and thinking patterns crucial for superior performance.  

More than just placing a candidate, Perpetual Development's goal is to maximize the candidate's contribution to the company through ongoing interaction and communication. 
 

The Process

Finding the right candidate for our clients involves a systematic process to ensure an effective job match. Our team will:

• Develop the job benchmark
  using a scientifically validated process, we create an accurate and insightful picture of the position.
• Use our extensive database and network
  through clearly defined searches, we pull from the top professionals available.
• Identify prime candidates
  our candidate assessment goes beyond the resume, using the same criteria as the job benchmark to ensure an excellent job fit.
• Check references, prior employment, education history and perform initial telephone screening
  saving you time and effort.  Screening includes an in-depth background check (for the past seven years) including Social Security verification, driving record, federal and county criminal search, plus a credit check for C-level executive positions.
• Recommend up to 10 prime candidates
  our screening process ensures you only interview top prospects. 
  
• Provide interview questions tailored to the position
  taking into consideration both the job benchmark and the candidate, we can suggest questions that will touch the most important issues quickly.
• Furnish a customized New Hire Orientation kit
  by assessing both the job and the candidate, we can create a personalized coaching path for your candidate to promote superior performance in the position as rapidly as possible.
• Offer ongoing support
  we include an initial talent debriefing with the manager and candidate within 30 days of date of hire.
• Follow up at 90 days
  we check in with the employee and the manager to ensure that the new employee's development is making a solid contribution to the company.
• Reduce your risk
  our 4-month 100% satisfaction guarantee promises we will refill the position at no additional cost, if necessary.