Talent Assessment Vendor Checkster Launches Interview Checkup

Checkster, known for their cloud-based talent assessment solutions, has recently launched Interview Checkup, an assessment tool designed to assist employers in their candidate selection process.  The tool focuses on improving interview debriefing, a critical stage of the hiring process wherein multiple interviewers come together and compare their candidate evaluations.

“The interview is the most widely used way to assess people. But what is the value of all those hours of interviews if the debrief session is either hijacked by one or two individuals or worse, never formally done?” said Yves Lermusi, Chief Executive Officer of Checkster in a recent press release. “Often you need to chase after the interviewers to get their feedback or if you can successfully put them into the same room, the ‘social influence effect’ will ruin your hope of accuracy. Our early adopters of interview Checkup have already experienced great results and we look forward to help organizations increase the quality and fit of their workforce.”

Interview checkup democratizes the debriefing stage by reducing the social and political organizational influences that often sway or derail the decision making process. As a candidate selection system, the tool provides an accurate and efficient way to judge applicants realistically, based on their merits, without bias.

Checkster’s Interview Checkup was formally unveiled at Taleo World 2011. However, a number of organizations have been utilizing a a pre-release version to great success.

“Checkster’s interview Checkup is an easy step that organizations can easily implement to increase consistency and accuracy of their interview process,” said Charles Handler, Ph.D.in Industrial Psychology, President and Founder of Rocket-Hire. “Calibrating interview results via debriefs is often seen as an important step in the interview process and we know it is crucial, but unfortunately many firms often lack the needed tools. Although this step is important, it is often skipped based on the idea that there is not enough time to sort out interview notes to identify consistencies. Checkster’s new tool fills this need, allowing multiple interviewers to calibrate their results in no time.”