Industries · Construction
Attract more skilled workers.
The construction industry is highly collaborative by nature. Finding skilled workers that fit your culture is more challenging than ever – but also more critical than ever
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We know that safety is the number one priority in a construction environment. Our proven methodology for hiring allows you to minimize safety hazards by gaining scientific insights into how your people communicate, make decisions, problem solve and take risks.
The challenges
What construction companies are up against
- 01
Skilled workers are hard to find
Finding skilled workers who fit your culture is harder than ever, and every empty position slows a project down.
- 02
Safety comes first
On a site, how people make decisions and take risks matters as much as what they know.
- 03
Crews have to work as one
Construction is collaborative by nature. When trades, site leaders and the office don’t connect, mistakes and delays follow.
- 04
Keeping your best people
When an experienced site leader leaves, their knowledge leaves with them.
How Predictive Success helps
Each answer below meets the challenge with the same number.
- 01
Hire to a fine-tuned job model
Define what each role needs with the PI Job Assessment, then hire the candidates who fit it, not only the ones who interview well.
PI Job Assessment™ - 02
Make safety part of hiring
Behavioural data shows how people communicate, make decisions and take risks, so safety starts before the first day on site.
Safe Behaviour Analytics - 03
Build crews that work together
See the behavioural mix of a project team before work starts, and give site leaders a shared language across trades.
Design Dream Teams - 04
Keep the people you hired
Engagement data shows where crews are losing interest while it is still fixable.
Diagnose Engagement
The sector’s behavioural profile
More than 60% of construction managers are process-driven.
PI’s data shows that top construction leaders share consistency, precision and patience, the behaviours that keep projects on time and on budget.
Explore the 17 Reference ProfilesFrom The Predictive Index’s industry research.
Job target profile, Construction
Construction Supervisor
Behavioural target
Common reference profiles
ControllerA Controller is detail-oriented and conservative, with a preference for high quality and technical expertise.
AnalyzerAn Analyzer is intense, with high standards and a disciplined and reserved personality.
StrategistA Strategist is results-oriented, innovative and analytical with a drive for change.
They will be
- Intense
- Restless
- Driving
They will need
- Variety
- Opportunities to work at a faster than average pace
- Mobility
They will like hearing
- Clarity of tasks and duties
- Deliver high-quality products and services
- Manage multiple priorities
- Take the Initiative
Noteworthy behaviours
Careful with rules
- Conscientious
- Thorough
- Precise
- Concerned with rules and accuracy
Proactive
- Takes initiative
- Competitive
- Driven to get things done
- Positive response to pressure
Construction
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Client stories
Real results in construction.
Train Employees on Safe Behaviour
Your employees produce goods and services for your clients, are the promotors of your brand, and the managers of your operations. Business success is clearly dependent on the quality and wellbeing of your workforce. Not only do employee injuries or illness affect their ability to work and maintain their livelihood, the toll on co-workers, families and communities can be equally devastating. Don’t take chances with safety.
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