Navient's FoundationsNavigator™: The Basis For Better Talent Decisions

Job Profiles, Success Profiles, Assessment Profiles

Navient’s building blocks of integrated hiring management are the “Job Profile”, “Success Profile” and the “Assessment Profile”. Without a firm understanding of the skills required to do the job, assessing candidates and managing employee performance for peak productivity is at best difficult.

Most organizations rely on static and often out-of-date job descriptions and they generally under-invest in developing clear and accurate success profiles as part of their hiring management strategy. Even fewer organizations take the time to fully understand the core competencies required to successfully perform on the job.

Navient’s FoundationsNavigator™ software application contains toolkits designed for use by both line managers and HR staff. These toolkits provide a quick and easy way to document job requirements, cultural factors and a person specification or ‘Success Profile’. Collectively, this information creates the “DNA” of the entire hiring management process.

The FoundationsNavigator™ toolkits include:

Job Profiler - This on-line wizard allows the hiring manager or HR professional to quickly review hundreds of job titles organized into 23 major job families. This job profiling tool links all associated job components such as knowledge, skills and abilities and behaviors along with tasks performed. The job profile, once reviewed updates the system in real time to capture all the current or future demands of the target job. The Job Profiler allows organizations to dynamically update and keep all job profiles and descriptions current and relevant to organizational objectives.

Success Profiler - The most critical component of developing an effective hiring management strategy is specifying the behaviors and skills that define superior achievement of job objectives. The Success Profiler wizard rapidly identifies knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors associated with a target job and translates these into a concise and easy to understand profile of the ideal person specification.

Assessment Profiler - Built-in scientific selection research methodology differentiates this module from conventional resume scanning approaches of identifying the ‘ideal’ job candidate. Navient’s assessment wizard is populated with a proprietary database of job relevant and valid assessment instruments. Managers and/or HR professionals can use the Assessment Profiler to quickly identify tests and screening tools developed by I/O psychologists that assess candidates on critical and essential job elements