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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 15, 2009 -- The Gallop Organisation state that Skills, knowledge, experience, and talent should factor into the final hiring decision. Most organizations spend significant time and money measuring the first three. However, they do not devote the same level of resources to assessing the most important factor: an applicant's talents.

Gallup's highly refined, scientific approach to studying success reveals that top performers in any role exhibit similar talents -- recurring patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour that naturally equip them to excel in a role.

Yet recruitment companies continue to recruit without taking this into consideration.

True Colours Group, under the leadership of Tanya Harris and Debbie Carr, have developed an innovative talent

management process. Coming from a training and recruitment background, the two directors joined forces to establish a process combing both recruitment and training as well as other talent management resources.

Starting with the recruitment process, all candidates are profiled to establish their strengths and are always matched with the culture of the company. Once placed they help onboard the candidate by offering a team strengthening workshop included in the competitive recruitment fee. Ms Harris developed an online profiling tool that measures the behaviour of an organisation’s top performers. The results can be used in the recruitment process by ensuring the new recruit has similar behaviours as the top performers in the company.

Debbie Carr says “Employers

are right to question how traditional recruitment companies fail to work with them as a long term partnership that continues to work with both the candidate and employer after placement”. She questions why companies are still paying high recruitment fees without any value-added services and working with more than one recruitment company at a time. “Working in this contingent style of recruitment is not going to build a talent management partnership."

Despite the global financial crisis, the Directors of True Colours Group saw an opportunity to add more value for their client’s recruitment dollar by providing an onboarding team building workshop once they have placed the candidate. The workshop is included in the competitive recruitment fee therefore the company can split the costs between their recruitment and training, or have a way to provide all important team building without having to account for it in their budgets.

Many smaller companies will find this advantageous due to tightening of budgets.
Carr adds, “We believe that the recruitment process should be based around candidate’s strengths and company culture”. She quotes an incident with one placement: “When we followed through with our training, we uncovered a potential problem between the new candidat