Personality-centered recruiting

"In addition to professional characteristics, personality plays a major role for us, as we are a very people-centric company. We want to find out right at the beginning who is sitting across from us and whether this person could fit into the team and company and would be happy with us."

"In general, personality analyses differ greatly in their quality. Therefore, I can only speak for the tool we use, the LINC Personality Profiler. This can map the individuality of the personalities very well due to the diversity of the facets identified - in this way, the LPP succeeds in providing a differentiated view of the character with thousands of different possible combinations. And since our personalities are comparable to fingerprints in their individuality, we believe this is also necessary for such a tool. Pigeonholing and dividing the personality into a few basic types is too simplified and therefore not sufficient. The character traits recorded in the LPP can then in turn be used to draw conclusions about behavioral preferences.

Incidentally, personality is generally a very stable construct. It stabilizes in our early twenties and usually changes very little thereafter."

"No, absolutely not. Diversity is the key word here. Diversity does not just mean differences in demographic characteristics, but also differences in personality traits. In this way, the individual team members can complement each other optimally and serve diverse aspects of the work through their different behavioral preferences. In general, the LPP is merely our basis for discussion. There is no right or wrong and we do not make our decision for or against applicants based on the results of the tool. We are much more interested in how the person reflects on themselves and how the personality traits manifest themselves in everyday life, or influence behavioral styles."

"Yes, definitely. And that's exactly what we get back from the applicants. We received a lot of feedback, especially during our pilot phase. We often received feedback that the analysis helped us to deepen our own reflection."

"Of course, that's not a problem. The personality analysis is voluntary, so if someone decides against it, there's no disadvantage for the applicant."