- What does affintus do?
affintus helps companies find people who are great matches for their jobs, and helps people find jobs they love. affintus matches jobs and people based on proven scientific analysis and with a good match, both the organization and the individual are more successful.
Hiring new employees and making sure that current employees are promoted into the right jobs are two of the most expensive activities in any organization. Because the costs of a bad hire or a failed promotion can be huge (up to three times annual salary), we have designed a way for employers to better predict, before hiring or promoting, the likelihood that an applicant will be successful in the new position.
The affintus on-line questionnaire provides the objective data needed to help managers make the best hiring and promotion decisions. Based on the latest science and technology, affintus helps companies improve their bottom line by hiring and promoting the right people into the right jobs. Whether you have three or 300 applicants, using our proven, validated tools, you can find the most qualified candidates to fill your open positions, before you read a single résumé.
To create your custom Job Formula affintus quantitatively analyzes:
- High performers in each job you want to fill
- The unique organizational culture
- Every individual job candidate on three factors — learning strengths, work style, and work culture preferences.
The results of each candidate's analysis are automatically compared to your custom Job Formula and you receive a real-time report that identifies people who are the best match for the job.
When employees match the job requirements and company culture, companies are more financially successful and turnover goes down because employees are more satisfied. affintus helps employers consistently and quickly select and promote the right people for the right jobs – the employees that fit your jobs to a "T."
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- How does affini-T match me to a job?
The affini-T job matching process has several steps.
First, an employer creates a custom Job Formula for the position they want to fill. The Job Formula describes the strengths and work preferences that relate to success in that specific job and company.
Then, affini-T uses your questionnaire responses to scientifically identify your strengths and work preferences in three areas: Learning Strengths, Work Style, and Culture Preference.
- Learning Strengths describe how you like to learn.
- Work Style presents a picture of your personal approach to work.
- Culture Preference expresses the kind of environment you prefer to work in.
Finally, you are individually compared with 19 dimensions of the job using a system that predicts successful work results based on the match between you and the job. Based on your personal strengths, your compatibility with the job is determined.
Our goal is to help people find jobs they love and organizations find great employee matches for their jobs. affintus helps both employees and employers succeed.
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- Why use a questionnaire to help make decisions about promotion, coaching, or hiring?
Because using scientific data will help you make way more accurate people decisions so you get the right people in the right jobs, right away.
affintus brings the decision data you need right to your desktop, giving you scientific information beyond what any résumé or interview can tell you. affintus helps you get to really know people …before you read a single résumé.
Recent research has reported that most people decisions, like promotion or hiring, are based on a "gut reaction" most likely based on résumé reviews, interviews, and the applicant's experience in similar jobs. But look at this:
- Résumés: about 40% of résumés contain inaccurate information
- Interviews: people are naturally biased: they tend to like people who are like themselves
- "gut feeling": may not match with what is needed for this job now
- Experience: may or may not be relevant to the job
In other research hiring managers report that...
- 46% of new hires fail within 18 months
- 19% of new hires are successful
- Poor employee-job match is the leading cause of job failure, not the lack of skills.
Our clients come to us when they want to incorporate valid data in their decision making about their talent. The easy-to-use affini-T matching system helps them improve their decision success batting average. Our information supports our client's people decisions by giving them detailed data on 19 key factors that are known to help predict a person's future performance in a job.
With affintus you, too, can count on more successful employees. Using scientifically proven information to match employees and jobs helps increase revenue and profitability. affini-T's scientific decision data and easy-to-use technology can also reduce human resource costs, decrease turnover and absenteeism, and shrink legal risks associated with hiring.
But does job chemistry really work?
Yes, it does.
Over 60 years of scientific research has found that matching key job success factors to the characteristics of a job candidate predicts future performance on the job. When people are a good match with their jobs, they deliver better job performance.
affintus helps you find the best matches. The results of using affini-T, our matching algorithm, are what any organization would want:
- Reduced time and cost to hire
- 10% - 50% higher productivity
- 5% - 50% reduction in turnover
- Increased productivity and revenue generation
affintus' scientific matching helps you strengthen your bottom line because our tools match your business needs.
Contact affintus today to schedule a demonstration.
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- What if I fake my answers?
Go ahead and fake your answers if you want to ... but the job chemistry experts here say that doesn't make sense if you are trying to find a job you really love.
If you decide to fake anyway, try to "fake good." That means try to figure out which responses will create a good match with the job you are applying for. Good luck with that.
The problem with faking is that for each job on the affintus site, there is a unique job formula that describes the success factors for one specific job, in one specific company. In other words, just about every job has a different job formula.
Our job chemists tell us that if your goal is to find a job where you'll have great chemistry, you should respond candidly and frankly. In other words, you want to respond as…well…as the real you!
If you are interested in learning a little more about the science part of faking, read on.
Some Science Stuff
Some people will try to fake their answers on questionnaires when they apply for a job. They do it because they think it will give them a better chance to be hired. That kind of faking is known as "faking good" or giving "socially desirable" responses. There are questions about whether faking really makes a difference – there is a good chance it doesn't.
A number of studies have concluded that social desirability ("faking good") does not seem to affect the ability to predict on-the-job behavior based on work style. In other words, faking doesn't appear to get the result you want. Others studies have reported that faking good may give an indication of how you might adapt on the job. Another recent study concluded that faking doesn't affect the outcome at all. There is not complete agreement about this, however.
Some experts have concluded that faking does not affect the criterion related validity of the measure. Yeah, okay…Here is what that means. Criterion related validity tells us how accurately a measure will predict success by comparing it to another measure that we already know is accurate.
For example, you have probably taken a driving test where someone riding with you rated your driving ability; the results were used to decide whether to give you a driver's license ... or not. At the time you took the driving test, you probably took a written test, too. But how do we know that a written test will actually help predict what kind of a driver you will be?
To find the "predictive accuracy" of the written test, the score for the on-the-road driving test is compared to the score on the written test. If this comparison is completed with enough people, the written test can be "validated" meaning the written test is a useful predictor of your driving skill because people who pass the driving test are generally the same ones who pass the written test.
The faking bottom line: many of the people who study faking don't think it leads to the success you want. The affintus experts agree: responding to the questions as the "real" you is the best way to find a job that matches you — one where you can be most successful and really fit in with the employer's culture.
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- What does your company name mean?
affintus stands for a strong match between a person and a job. It means a relationship in which both the organization and the employee are highly successful.
The founders wanted to find a name that reflected a good match for employer and employee. They talked about what it means to have an "affinity" for something (for a city, a piece of art, a person, or a job). They realized that when there is affinity a beneficial relationship is likely to develop and grow.
The company name, affintus, echoes our commitment to companies and employees, helping both develop strong work affinity.
A little word play
Shakespeare, the creator of so many familiar words and phrases, coined the word "affin'd" and used it both in Troilus and Cressida and Othello where it meant "united by affinity." In the late 13th and early 14th century a middle English and a middle French version appeared, based on the Latin word affinitaswhich meant a connection by marriage.
The meaning of the word has grown through use:
- In biology affinity means the phylogenetic relationship between two organisms or groups of organisms resulting in a resemblance in general plan or structure, or in the essential structural parts. Yeah. We are pretty sure that means a similarity between species that suggests a common origin.
- In chemistry it means the force by which atoms are held together in chemical compounds.
- In medicine it refers to the attraction between an antigen and an antibody.
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