Click here to view the Hiring Playbook site.
About The Predictive Index
The Predictive Index is a talent optimization company that businesses use to hire, inspire, and retain talent inside of their organizations. Company’s utilize PI’s software platform to administer and interpret the results of their workplace assessments.
The Challenge
The Predictive Index conducted discovery research around how the company could support its customers during their recruitment strategies. During interviews, customers described their lack of confidence during recruitment and hiring new talent inside of their organizations. The Predictive Index had a chance to provide recruiters and hiring managers with support resources that aligned with the release of new software features around recruitment.
The Team
As Lead Learning Experience Designer, I led the learning experience strategy, design, and development of the website. I aligned a group of stakeholders from product, product marketing, and learning to collaborate with on the project.
The Approach
Audience Definition
During a kickoff meeting, the group conducted a brainstorm around the target audience they were looking to support. The activity focused on the following questions:
- Who is our user group?
- What do they currently know, do, and feel?
- What do we want them to know, do, and feel?
Below is a summary of the current and future states for the audience:
Current State
No prior experience with The Predictive Index methodology or platform
Aren’t familiar with hiring or doing a ton of hiring inside of their organization
Lack of confidence when recruiting and hiring new employees inside of their organizations
Lack of knowledge around potential interview questions to ask, pitfalls during the interview process, and tips to follow
Confusion around how to use Predictive Index tools and resources during their hiring and recruitment experiences
Future State
Understands and applies resources from The Predictive Index when preparing for or conducting interviews with potential employees
Feels confident when heading into interviews
Feels supported with resources as they conduct interviews
Problem Definition
After the group had a better understanding of the target audience, we aligned around the following opportunity areas:
- How might we support our audience with resources that help them while they are hiring and recruiting new employees inside of their organizations?
- How might we support our audience with guidance on how to use the resources provided?
- How might we avoid a time intensive content production process and utilize existing resources that we already have for this audience?
Ideation/Design
As the Lead Learning Experience Designer, I quickly began to ideate and prototype possible solutions to help aid our user group.
My first step was to perform a content inventory to see what existing resources we had available for our intended audience of hiring managers and recruiters. I discovered 12 different resources ranging from articles, video, and downloadable media. My first concept focused creating a curated resource site that chunked resources together according to content type.
During a second iteration, I utilized best practices related information architecture to group resources around the audiences existing mental model of the hiring process: preparing for an interview, conducting an interview, and evaluating interviews. I created a higher fidelity prototype that included site content, graphics, and the overall look and feel of the site. The group conducted prototype testing in order to gain insights on how users explored and navigated the resource site.
The Outcome
The group quickly iterated the design based on feedback from prototype testing and released the Hiring Playbook to users.
The Hiring Playbook is an external resource site to help recruiters and hiring managers with tips and tricks on how to get started interviewing talent more quickly and confidently.
