Matching personalities with ideal jobs and roles.
DISC explains a personality in terms of four numbers, and quantifying a person’s behavior like this brings some significant advantages. This opens up, for example, the possibility of Job Matching. If we use DISC to predetermine the ideal personality style for a role, Discus can match the factor values in a DISC profile against that ideal, and so work out how well a candidate is suited to that role’s needs. Because we know all the personality factors involved, it’s even possible to highlight strengths that stand out, or areas where a person may need development.
It’s important to stress that DISC Job Matching can only look at an individual’s personality, and it’s therefore limited to describing suitability in those terms, but nonetheless it can provide a powerful basic guideline in helping to make a recruitment decision.
Job Profiling
Both types of matching, Job Matching and Candidate Matching, rely on having a predefined personality profile for the job we’re matching against – a Job Profile. A natural question would be: where does this ideal DISC profile come from?
There are two possible answers to that question. The simplest and easiest is to select a template from a library of predefined profiles. Discus includes several hundred templates for the most common types of roles, from categories as diverse as administration or sales, or specialized as education or media.