Hiring mistakes are expensive. Every mis-hire drains productivity, damages morale, and increases turnover costs. Too often, hiring decisions rely on gut instinct or first impressions that don’t reveal the full picture.
That’s why organizations today need objective, personalized insights into how people think, work, and grow. With the right data, you can:
Select the right people for the right roles
Reduce costly hiring mistakes
Support managers with tools for onboarding and coaching
Improve employee engagement, retention, and performance
Solution:
At Strategic Dynamics, we use PXT Select® hiring assessments to provide accurate, objective, and reliable data that guides smarter talent decisions. From hiring and placement to ongoing development, PXT Select helps you build a workforce that performs, grows, and drives business results.
Ask Yourself:
Is your current hiring process efficient and consistent?
How much has a mis-hire cost your organization?
Could stronger onboarding and coaching improve your managers’ effectiveness?
Are you leveraging employee strengths—or overlooking hidden talent?
Too often, hiring managers begin the selection process without a defined picture of the ideal candidate. This leads to wasted time, inconsistent decisions, and costly mis-hires.
With PXT Select® hiring assessments, you can create a hiring blueprint before you ever start interviewing. The tool helps you:
Define success by identifying the cognitive traits, behavioral traits, and occupational interests required for the role
Build performance models—targets that outline the range of scores typical for success in a specific position
Align hiring managers and recruiters around the same standards for candidate evaluation
Accelerate hiring while setting the foundation for long-term employee development
With these performance models in place, your hiring process becomes faster, more objective, and more consistent—while also illuminating the path for employee growth and future development.
Resumés and references only tell part of the story. Experience and reputation may look impressive on paper, but how do you know what’s below the surface? Selecting the right person—whether it’s an external hire, an internal promotion, or a lateral move—requires more than intuition. It demands consistency, objectivity, and deeper insight into how a candidate thinks and works.
That’s where PXT Select® hiring assessments provide a critical advantage. Candidates complete a research-based questionnaire that measures the factors proven to impact job success. The results deliver:
An overall Job Fit score—the closer the fit, the stronger the alignment with the role
Personalized interview questions that guide managers to probe deeper and stay objective
Gap analysis showing where a candidate differs from the role’s performance model
Clearer insight into how the candidate may fit within the team and organizational culture
Armed with this data, hiring managers can move beyond guesswork—identifying top candidates with confidence and advancing the ones most likely to succeed.
Interviews and résumés are helpful, but they don’t guarantee you’re choosing the right person. What if you have two strong candidates and aren’t sure who’s the better fit? Making the wrong choice is costly—lost productivity, turnover expenses, and the time-consuming process of starting over.
That’s where PXT Select® hiring assessments provide clarity. The assessment compares each candidate’s results to the job’s performance model and generates an overall Job Fit score. The closer the fit, the stronger the likelihood of success.
PXT Select goes beyond surface-level information by measuring 20 variables across three key dimensions:
Thinking Style – Can they do the job?
Behavioral Traits – How will they do the job?
Interests – Will they want to do the job?
Hiring managers can also use the Multiple Candidates Report to see applicants side by side against the role’s performance model. This makes it simple to objectively evaluate several qualified candidates and determine who best aligns with the requirements of the position.
With these insights, you gain unbiased, data-driven comparisons across all candidates—helping you confidently select the person most likely to succeed in the role and thrive within your organization.
Hiring the right person is just the beginning. The bigger challenge? Keeping and developing top performers. That’s where PXT Select® reports become invaluable—helping managers not only onboard effectively but also coach, engage, and grow employees throughout their careers.
With PXT Select, you gain access to a full suite of reports designed to support every stage of the employee lifecycle:
Selection Reports
Comprehensive Selection Report
Sales: Comprehensive Selection Report
Multiple Candidates Report
Multiple Positions Report
Performance Model Report
Leadership Report
Participant Reports
Individual’s Feedback Report
Sales: Individual’s Feedback Report
Individual’s Graph Report
Onboarding & Development Reports
Coaching Report
Sales: Coaching Report
Manager–Employee Report
Team Report
These reports provide managers with actionable insights to:
Ramp up new employees quickly and effectively
Improve communication and strengthen manager–employee relationships
Personalize coaching for individual and team growth
Identify leadership potential and build a strong succession pipeline
Retain top performers by aligning strengths with future opportunities
By using PXT Select as part of your ongoing talent strategy, you ensure employees aren’t just hired—they’re supported, developed, and retained for long-term success.
When it comes to hiring and developing employees, one size does not fit all. That’s why we offer a range of research-based assessment tools designed to help organizations hire smarter, coach more effectively, and build stronger teams.
Each assessment provides objective, actionable data that goes beyond résumés and interviews—helping you reduce hiring mistakes, improve employee engagement, and strengthen leadership development.
Explore your options below to find the assessment that best supports your hiring and talent strategy.
Need: You want to hire and develop employees who are the right fit for their roles—people who have the skills, traits, and motivation to succeed. Making these decisions requires objective, reliable, and accurate data, not just intuition.
Value: The PXT Select® assessment provides a comprehensive measure of how well a candidate fits a role by evaluating Cognitive Ability, Behavioral Traits, and Interests. This combination delivers a full picture of Job Fit, helping you reduce mis-hires, improve retention, and place employees where they can perform at their best.
What It Is: A research-based assessment that compares each candidate against role-specific performance models. PXT Select offers managers actionable reports for hiring, onboarding, coaching, and workforce planning—ensuring smarter decisions across the entire employee lifecycle.
Need: In some roles, Cognitive Ability has already been established, or may not be required at the point of hire. In these cases, you still need accurate insight into soft skills, cultural alignment, and motivation to make confident hiring decisions.
Value: The PXT Select® Non-Cognitive assessment focuses on Behavioral Traits and Interests. It uses the same scientific rigor as the full PXT Select assessment but is shorter, faster, and simpler—ideal for organizations that need flexibility without sacrificing reliability.
What It Is: A streamlined assessment that measures how well candidates align with specific jobs based on behavior and motivation. Organizations often use it when hiring for roles where Cognitive Ability is already verified, or to support onboarding, coaching, development, and strategic workforce planning.
Need: Employee theft and fraud cost U.S. businesses over $50 billion annually. Companies need a way to identify candidates who are less likely to engage in dishonesty, theft, or other high-risk behaviors before making a hiring decision.
Value: The Step One Survey® is a brief, pre-hire assessment that helps organizations reduce risk by hiring honest, reliable, and hardworking employees. It ensures that new hires contribute to business success rather than jeopardize it.
What It Is: A scientifically validated assessment that measures an applicant’s integrity, reliability, work ethic, attitudes toward theft (property, data, and time), and potential risk factors such as substance abuse. Many organizations use it as the first screen all applicants must pass before moving forward in the hiring process.
Need: A poor customer service experience can quickly damage brand reputation and loyalty. In today’s competitive market, organizations need customer-facing employees with the right traits and skills to deliver consistent, superior service.
Value: The Customer Service Profile™ helps organizations identify and develop employees who excel in customer service roles. By aligning people to service-oriented behaviors, companies can improve brand reputation, reduce costly turnover, and deliver the kind of service that wins lasting customer loyalty.
What It Is: A targeted assessment that measures a person’s customer service-oriented traits and job fit. It can be applied to general service roles or tailored to specialized industries such as hospitality, healthcare, financial services, and retail. Organizations use it for selection, onboarding, and ongoing management to build high-performing service teams.
Need: When managers and leaders are effective, teams thrive. When they’re not, productivity, engagement, and retention suffer. Organizations need a way to coach and develop leadership effectiveness to drive results.
Value: The CheckPoint 360°™ survey provides leaders with detailed feedback from multiple perspectives—direct reports, peers, supervisors, and even customers. This 360-degree view helps organizations strengthen leadership skills, align leaders with company goals, and build a culture of high performance.
What It Is: A comprehensive leadership survey that evaluates a manager’s performance across eight core competencies: communication, leadership, adaptability, task management, relationships, production, development of others, and personal development. Results highlight strengths, reveal gaps, and guide personalized development plans that help leaders grow and teams succeed.
