So many of the ingredients that inform someone’s Emotional Intelligence comes from subtle social clues.— Josh Millet, Founder and CEO of Criteria

The goal of hiring is simple: to select the right person for the job. Intrinsic in that process is a question of prediction. Whether you’re a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR professional, your task is to predict which of your candidates are most likely to succeed.

While the goal is straightforward, the steps to achieving it can become quite complicated. Dozens of factors can impact your eventual hiring decision. These factors are based on intuitionor gut feeling, like a shared hobby, a first impression, or the candidate’s alma mater. Other factors are more concrete and objective such as the candidate’s job experience or performance on a pre-employment assessment. Whether consciously or unconsciously, any of these factors can contribute to the final decision. More importantly, no single factor should make the entire decision for you, just as not every aspect should have the same weight.

But how do you know which factors to prioritize over others? This is where evidence-based hiring can help.

Criteria is one of the best firms to help your organization hire top talent through evidence-based hiring. Criteria is a talent success company that helps organizations make more objective, evidence-based talent decisions that reduce bias and drive outcomes. Their world-leading tools include a comprehensive suite of rigorously validated assessments and decision-making tools that highlight the potential in every job candidate while providing an experience that candidates love.

Criteria take a scientific approach to every product they build by rigorously validating for results, ensuring transparency, and designing a human-focused solution that drives best practice hiring. Their enduring mission is to create a fairer, more robust, and efficient talent selection process. It is an approach that reduces the risk of bias and provides everyone an equal opportunity to prove their worth and value.

Creating a company to assess your future talent

Based in Los Angeles, Criteria was founded in 2006 as one of the first SaaS solutions to provide assessments to the market. Co-founders Josh Millet and David Sherman created the company with the mission to take powerfully predictive science and make it accessible to organizations of all kinds, enabling them to make better talent decisions that drive results.

Since those early days, Criteria has proliferated. The company has been featured on the Inc. 5000 seven years in a row.They scaled their team from just a few people to over 150 and have been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Inc. and Built-In LA. Criteria has also expanded internationally, having acquired Revelian, an Australia-based leader in game-based assessments, in 2020 and Alcami, one of the world’s leading video interviewing providers, in 2021.

While a lot of growth means change, some things remain the same: their customer-centric approach informs everything they do. And their employee-centric policy toward creating a positive environment and enabling their team to be the best they can be

Maximizing Criteria’s Pipeline to hire the best talent for your organization

Organizations use various methods to organize and track their job candidates. These strategies range from something as modest as a whiteboard in the office to something as robust as an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Criteria’s pipeline feature can help you track, organize, and evaluate your candidates, whether you fall into either of these categories or somewhere in the middle.

Q. What Are Pipelines?

Criteria’s Pipelines break down the stages of your hiring process to help with candidate tracking and management for every job. Think of it as the different stages in your hiring funnel.

When a new candidate completes the assessment, the finished results will first show up in the Incoming pipeline, with your most recent applicant showing at the top of your list. You can either drag/drop or use Criteria’s bulk actions tool to move potential candidates through the hiring pipeline stages. The end goal is for each of your candidates to travel through this funnel and end up in either the Not Hired or Hired pipeline stage.

Advantages of using Criteria’s Pipelines

Any customer of any size can benefit from using pipelines. Some of the key benefits include:

• Better candidate management

You can quickly see how many people are in each pipeline stage. By clicking on each stage, you’ll also view which candidates are in each step of hiring.

• An easier way to refine score ranges

By moving candidates to the “Hired” pipeline stage, you set yourself up for a more straightforward score range analysis for candidates you have hired. This will allow you to refine your ranges further as you gather more testing data.

• It streamlines the hiring process

You can customize your pipelines to trigger automated actions when a candidate moves into a new pipeline stage. Customers in Criteria’s Professional or Enterprise tiers can also create automated emails, which can be sent to candidates when a pipeline stage is moved.

Enabling organizations to assess and manage candidates before hiring

Josh Millet is the Founder and CEO of Criteria. He started the company in 2006 with a vision to create a SaaS-based pre-employment testing service that would make the highest quality employee assessment tools accessible to companies of all sizes.

Josh holds a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Mellon Fellow.

“Better Science. Better Decisions. More Talent Success.”