The 30/70 Reality of Job Performance: Why Human-Factor Behaviors Decide Who Thrives at Work
The 30% problem. Skills matter, but they’re not the whole job. If you’ve ever hired someone who looked perfect on paper—qualified, experienced, even impressive in the interview—only to watch performance stall once the job started, you’ve seen the 30/70 reality in action. At Scheig Solutions, we’ve spent decades studying a simple question: Why do two […]
What Reliable Hiring Looks Like Across Multiple Managers and Locations
For multi-location organizations, hiring consistency is especially valuable. As organizations grow, hiring becomes more complex. Multiple managers may be involved. Different locations may have distinct applicant pools. Departments may face varying staffing pressures. Over time, each hiring manager may develop their own habits, preferences, and assumptions about what makes a “good candidate.” That is […]
From Local Judgment to Enterprise Standards
Scheig Solutions helped AmeriGas with customized SelectRight™ assessments across more than 400 U.S. locations. How Scheig’s SelectRight™ System Helped AmeriGas Establish Hiring Standards Across Roles and Locations For organizations operating across many locations, maintaining consistency is one of the hardest hiring challenges. A company may have strong values, clear job descriptions, and experienced managers, […]
Insights on Hiring Challenges
Hiring is a high-stakes prediction problem. Hiring is one of those business activities that feels deceptively familiar. Nearly everyone has interviewed, been interviewed, or “helped pick someone.” Yet organizations routinely discover—often painfully—that hiring is not a simple judgment call. It is a high-stakes prediction problem: will this person perform well, fit the role’s demands, […]
Unleashing the Power of Pre-Employment Assessments: 5 Compelling Reasons Companies Should Embrace Them
By harnessing pre-employment assessments, companies can make more informed, data-driven hiring decisions In today’s rapidly evolving job market, companies face the daunting challenge of selecting the right candidates to drive their success. Traditional recruitment methods often fall short in accurately assessing a candidate’s potential. However, by harnessing pre-employment assessments, companies can make more informed, […]
Why SelectRight™ Makes Hiring Easier Than Ever — Without Sacrificing Accuracy
SelectRight™ makes hiring dramatically easier — without lowering the bar. Hiring today is more challenging than ever. Applicant flow is unpredictable. Resumes are embellished. Interviews are subjective. Skills tests measure only a fraction of the job. And managers are expected to make fast, confident decisions with limited information. That’s exactly why SelectRight™ continues to […]
Hiring Doesn’t Need to Be Complicated — SelectRight™ Makes It Simple
At its core, SelectRight™ is designed around one principle: Hiring should be simple, fast, and accurate. Most hiring tools promise insight but deliver complexity. They bury you in dashboards, personality labels, color codes, and psychological jargon that don’t actually help you make better decisions. They slow your process down, frustrate your managers, and leave […]
How SelectRight™ Reduces Recruiting, Hiring, Training, and Turnover Costs — While Strengthening Workforce Performance
Turnover is not a retention problem. It’s a hiring problem. We’ve written before, and it’s important to reiterate a few of these initial points. Turnover has always been expensive, but in today’s labor market, it has become one of the most preventable and most costly drains on organizational performance. Most companies now spend 50–200% […]
Why Behavior‑Based Hiring Is the Only Reliable Way to Reduce Turnover in Today’s Labor Market
Low-wage roles may cost only 16%–30% of a salary to replace, mid-level & high-level positions often cost over 100%). Turnover has always been expensive — but in today’s labor environment, it’s become one of the most significant and preventable drains on organizational performance. Recent analyses show that replacing an employee now costs 50% to […]
What Would It Change If Your Best People Became Your Hiring Standard?
Every organization already has a blueprint for success — it’s written in the habits of its top performers. Imagine a hiring process that doesn’t focus on polished résumés or gut impressions but instead asks one simple question: Does this person behave like our best employees? That question shifts hiring from hope to evidence. It […]