For Students
If you are a student aged 17 or more you need to know your best-fit career choices to plan your post-secondary school educational strategy and career path. The SuccessFinder Career System is the only career diagnostic that can accurately predict the careers in which you will be most successful and most fulfilled.
The Pettit Group uses the SuccessFinder as an integral part of its student advisory service, combining the SuccessFinder Careers Report with the wisdom and experience of our career consultants. Our consultation with you is comprised of two, ninety minute consult sessions in which we discuss the SuccessFinder Report career recommendations, identify your best career choices and recommend next steps in your educational journey.
Click here for our info kit to learn more about the SuccessFinder
For Employees
Employees seek out our career planning services because they are looking to advance their career or look for a different kind of work experience. In either case we provide confidential, one-on-one career planning consultation that begins with the SuccessFinder Career Diagnostic, followed by two, ninety-minute consult sessions in which we discuss the SuccessFinder career recommendations, identify your best career choices, recommend professional development activities specific to these career choices and recommend next steps in your vocational journey.
For Organizations
5760 global executives identify behavioral skills as the #1 priority for closing the performance gap that most impedes organizational performance¹. We use the only behavioral diagnostic and development tool in the world that addresses this need effectively. Given that talent fuels organizational performance, competitiveness and adaptability, the focus today on selecting, developing and advancing talent is essential. We can prove to you in measurable, quantifiable terms that behavioral skills determine the degree to which your organization can adapt, innovate and succeed. Similarly, we can prove why it is that behavioral skills play a major role in an employee’s capacity to learn and reskill the technical skills necessary to accommodate the ability to remain relevant in a work environment increasingly governed by AI.
Best Talent Fit
You can know with certainty who the best candidate is for a specific job role, with an 85% predictive accuracy, before they ever take the job? How? The SuccessFinder research team has determined that every job role requires a specific set of behavioral skills that enable them to apply their technical knowledge and experience. We can prove this unequivocally, either through case studies or through direct pilot work with your employees.
Best Execution of Strategy
Strategic goals and executional plans require smart implementation. We can align your talent with your strategic goals in a manner that better achieves these goals by telling you in advance:
- which staff are best able to execute on your strategy plan
- how an employee will need to strengthen a specific behavioral competency to best fulfill their role responsibilities
This foresight allows us to:
- assemble the best teams to execute on a strategy
- identify the leaders who will be most effective in inspiring this process
Leaders Selection and Development
SuccessFinder Research team has identified the key behavioral competencies needed to lead in the manager, VP and C-level roles. Based on extensive research with 1,000 executives this leadership assessment will give you invaluable insight into:
- Who are your highest potential future leaders?
- How current leaders can best improve their leadership skills?
- What is your most effective succession plan?
One of the priorities, for example, that has emerged in the past five years is the need for agile leaders to lead in times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. There is a great need for agile leaders, he capacity for which is measured in these behavioral competencies. The SuccessFinder is unique in its ability identify employees across your organization with the greatest capacity to serve in this role, including:
- Sustains profits
- Seeks Innovation
- Embraces Change
- Thrives In Chaos
- Focus on Results
- Drives Achievement
Culture of Innovation and Adaptability
Innovation and adaptability are behavioral skills. Given the rapidly changing workplace requirements associated with artificial intelligent, technological change and the intelligent workplace behavioral skills are essential in enabling the workforce to adapt to the relentless pace of change and demands for reskilling. The behavioral competencies necessary to accommodate this type of change are like the bedrock on which all technical adaptation can happen.
The SuccessFInder’s behavioral analytics accurately assess the employee’s capacity for problem solving, work habits, motivational factors, coping strategies, self-understanding, propensity to learn, vocational incentives, lifestyle incentives; all of which directly enable or limit his/her capacity to adapt, change, learn and contribute to your organization’s success. Start with the behavioral skills and the rest becomes far easier to manage.
- The adaptability quotient, for example, consists of four competencies, which the SuccessFinder alone can define, quantify and measure in a manner that you can create an AQ index for every employee in your organization, allowing you to leverage those who are strongest and develop those who need to strengthen this capacity. The four competencies that comprise this leadership capability include:
- Embraces change
- Thrives in chaos
- Seeks innovation
- Initiates independently
Team Effectiveness & Productivity
What if we could measure the capacity of team members to contribute effectively in advance of starting a project? What if we could not only measure their current effectiveness but prescribe precisely the development activities they need to undertake to improve their contribution to the team? What if we could measure the team effectiveness IQ based on these measures? We can – and the results always lead to improving the contributions of team to bottom line results.
Team effectiveness is a direct reflection of a mix of behavioral competencies that include: builds consensus, embraces change, focuses on results, initiates independently, inspires others, leads decisively, promotes compelling vision, seeks innovation, sustains profitability.
Astoundingly, we can measure these propensities in advance of a team project initiative, enhance team membership to accommodate deficiencies and strengthen the behaviors required to contribute significantly to team output.