Competency Management Software

CompAssess is delighted to announce the release of LeapFrog, our competency management software.

LeapFrog is an invaluable productivity tool for human resource managers and line managers who carry responsibility for the recruitment and selection of talent.

Software Functionality

The functionality of the software allows users to:

• Create a competency library for roles, job families, organisational levels, or business units
• Edit from an existing competency library
• Analyse the competency success criteria for different roles
• Validate competency profiles
• Generate competency-based interview guides

Competency Analysis

LeapFrog comes complete with a full competency library that may be used to identify and apply selection criteria for vacant roles. The competency library may be copied, customised or amended to reflect specific requirements. In fact, multiple libraries may be developed, stored and updated electronically by organisational level or job family.

Validation of Competency Profiles

The accuracy of and buy-in to competency profiles is pivotal to their utility. LeapFrog incorporates a validation function that allows you to generate a competency validation questionnaire inviting relevant stakeholders to comment on competency profiles that have been drafted. Presented as a Microsoft Word document in user friendly format, the questionnaire invites job content experts to:

• Rate the relative importance of the competency to job success
• Rank order the competencies according to their criticality for job success
• Indicate the level of comprehensiveness of the competencies for understanding the success criteria for a given role
• Provide additional feedback on the competencies ranging from 'word smithing' to missing behaviours

The validation questionnaire may be easily emailed to respondents, completed and returned by email. The questionnaire data can then be entered into the software and a professional validation report may be produced that details the validation statistics in terms of aggregate rating, ranking and comprehensiveness data.

Interview Guide Generation

A common problem facing organisations in making recruitment and selection decisions is poorly managed interviews. For example:

• Inconsistent content being covered between different candidates making comparisons difficult
• Ratings being made without documented evidence that threatens the legal defensibility of decisions
• Inappropriate questions being asked, threatening accuracy, defensibility and candidate impressions of their prospective employer
• Incomplete behavioural examples being collected in interviews
• The interview process being poorly managed from introductions and upfront positioning through to interview completion, thus adversely impacting candidate impressions

To provide a remedy for these and other related interviewing issues, LeapFrog includes a function that enables the generation of standard professional interview guides to assist human resources professionals and line managers accurately and efficiently collect data from candidates through the behavioural interviewing process.

Each interview guide is professionally laid out in a user friendly Microsoft Word format, and includes guidance with regard to:

• Preparing for the interview
• Greeting the candidate and providing an overview of the process before the commencement of questioning
• Asking questions to cover previous work history
• Behavioural questions by selected competency that prompts interviewers to ensure complete behavioural examples are solicited and recorded on the guide
• Closing the interview
• Rating and integrating competency data with other data sources

Each competency in the LeapFrog library is replete with a battery of behavioural questions that may be randomly or selectively allocated to different interviews and/or interviewers. And the LeapFrog administrator can add additional questions or alter existing questions with ease.

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