Client Results: Pharmaceutical Sales Force
Challenge:
An international manufacturer of vaccines had two primary goals: to reduce sales staff turnover to less than 10% and to increase new hire productivity. The company was using a rigorous, behavioral-event interview system with good results.
Solution
Using the ECI Behavioral Insight® assessment, ECI identified the critical personality traits that differentiated top performers from others in the role. From this, a Model of Top Performance was developed and loaded into the ECI Behavioral Insight® application for use in the existing selection process.
Upon the completion of the modeling study, it was determined that 85% of the bottom quartile of performers would have been identified in the selection process had the ECI Behavioral Insight® been used in conjunction with the existing interview system.
Results
Turnover was reduced from 32% to 9%, while 92.6% of those hired with the program either met or exceeded position requirements within the first 12 months.
