{"id":3834,"date":"2019-10-17T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2024-08-18T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:59:00","slug":"case-study-helping-manchester-growth-company-look-beyond-the-cv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/news\/case-study-helping-manchester-growth-company-look-beyond-the-cv\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: Helping Manchester Growth Company look beyond the CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manchester Growth Company\/GC Business Growth\nHub<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GC_Landscape_RGB.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3835\" width=\"269\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GC_Landscape_RGB.png 956w, https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GC_Landscape_RGB-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GC_Landscape_RGB-768x329.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Growth Company is one of the largest employers in the region and has helped to generate hundreds of millions worth of investment and growth in the north-west and is dedicated to economic development, inward investment, skills, employment and enterprise. This requires&nbsp;employing a diverse workforce and key people to work in specific roles within the organisation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Growth Company and GC\nBusiness Growth Hub recognised the challenges of looking beyond the person\u2019s CV\nwhen it came to recruiting to key people for their innovation manager roles,\ndue to the diverse and flexible type of work involved. This role also required\nbeing able to identify certain core traits, shared values, attitude and characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Big 5 psychometric\nrecruitment assessment and reports tool is scientifically benchmarked and it enabled\ntheir HR and recruitment team to immediately save time, money and most\nimportantly \u2013 appoint the right people to the right job role. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cFollowing an initial trial of Big 5\npsychometric assessment we found this tool offered accurate candidate matching\nand confirmed our decisions about who to hire and those who we didn\u2019t think\nwere suitable or matched our criteria. W<\/em>e found\nthis solution offered us good value for money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We would recommend any recruiting\nManager to utilise this tool as it represented good value for money. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>D.N. &#8211; Senior Innovation Development\nManager, The Growth Company <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Growth Company\/GC Business Growth Hub The Growth Company is one of the largest employers in the region and has helped to generate hundreds of millions worth of investment and growth in the north-west and is dedicated to economic development, inward investment, skills, employment and enterprise. This requires&nbsp;employing a diverse workforce and key people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.big5assessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}