Project Services
Focused projects to design, improve, evaluate, or validate hiring and performance practices.
How Project Services Work
Sift HR takes on focused projects to develop new approaches, improve what you already use, and evaluate how well your current practices are working. Typical project work includes developing or refining structured interviews and other pre-hire assessments, improving performance evaluation materials and rating scales, conducting statistical validation studies, and reviewing hiring and performance practices for legal defensibility or litigation.
Our work is grounded in the requirements of your roles and leading research, with careful analysis and clear documentation to support job-related, evidence-based, and defensible hiring and performance practices.
Pre-Hire Assessments
Sift HR designs, refines, and helps organizations select pre-hire assessments grounded in the requirements of the role and established research.
Structured Interviews
Develop or refine structured interviews built around the requirements of the role. Projects may include job-related questions, scoring criteria, rating scales, interviewer guidance, and structured evaluation forms.
Work Samples
Develop or refine work samples or job simulations that give candidates an opportunity to demonstrate job-relevant skills and abilities. Projects may include task design, administration guidance, scoring criteria, and structured evaluation materials.
Other Pre-Hire Assessments
Select, develop, or refine assessment methods that fit the role and strengthen the hiring process. Projects may include assessments of personality, interests, values, abilities, and other job-relevant characteristics, including commercially available assessments and tools, structured application or biodata approaches, and scoring methods.
Performance Evaluation
Develop or improve performance evaluation materials that reflect what successful performance looks like in the role. Projects may include performance dimensions, rating scales, behaviorally anchored scales, scoring procedures, and evaluation forms.
Statistical Validation Studies
Conduct statistical validation studies that determine how interviews, work samples, and other hiring assessments actually relate to performance and other key workplace outcomes. These flagship studies show how well new, refined, or existing selection measures predict performance, satisfaction, turnover, and other relevant outcomes, and provide clear, evidence-based criteria for improving selection decisions.
Legal Defensibility and Litigation Support
Sift HR provides research-based review and analysis of hiring, assessment, and performance evaluation practices for organizations and counsel, helping evaluate job relatedness, validity, consistency, and defensibility.
Projects may include review of selection and performance evaluation systems and documentation, evaluation of scientific and technical evidence, statistical and adverse impact analysis, and consultation on hiring, assessment, and performance practices in litigation.
Have a Project in Mind?
Tell us what you’re working on or where you need help. We’ll discuss your needs and determine the right scope and deliverables.