Mind the Trust Gap – Insights on Recruitment in 2021

How can you use Thomas assessments to:

• Develop managers
• Build team dynamics
• Facilitate better communication within your organisation

Join Senior Global Training and Education Manager, Kira, as she quizzes long-term customer, Sam Carter, about how she has used Thomas assessments both as a HRD and as a HR Consultant with her own consultancy business, Alexiom Business Partners Ltd.

This webinar is for Thomas Customers who are interested in understanding the multiple uses of Thomas assessments and how to develop their employees.

Sam Carter is a qualified Human Resources specialist and Fellow of the CIPD. She has more than 20 years experience at Board level in a wide range of organisations. Now the Director of her own HR consultancy business (Alexiom Business Partners Ltd), Sam’s focus is creating meaningful HR strategies to help grow businesses, in addition to helping and advising the senior executives of the future. Her mentoring style is honest, straight forward and engaging and is regarded as a trusted partner.

Kira van Niekerk, Senior Global Training & Education Manager at Thomas International, is a registered psychometrist who has a passion for people excellence and the promotion of self-awareness at the individual, team and organisational level. She has experience facilitating team workshops and awareness sessions, with a focus on positive psychology and personal effectiveness. Kira has worked with a variety of clients in different industries and has experience in the industrial, clinical and medicolegal fields. She is also a certified mindfulness life coach.

What does the future of recruitment look like in a post-pandemic world?

- Will CVs still exist in 10 years?
- Has the pandemic pushed D&I recruitment initiatives back decades?
- How do we re-skill for jobs when the future is uncertain?
- Does recruitment change as more people demand flexibility & freedom?
- Will AI and Machine Learning disrupt not only recruitment but also management?

Join our panel discussion with our incredible in-house experts on the 9th of June from 13:00-14:00pm BST. Our expert panel from Thomas International includes:

Sabby Gill - Chief Executive Officer
Chris Jackson - Chief Product & Technology Officer
Kelly Jurkovitsch-Young - Head of Customer Success
Hosted by: Carmen Amador Barreiro - Senior Customer Success Manager

⭐ You can ask questions before the panel by emailing us as well as ask questions LIVE during the session.

Recent research conducted by Thomas International suggests that recruitment processes in the UK are broken, with more than half of all new hires not working out as planned.

But why?

In spring 2021, we spoke to HR and talent leaders across sectors to find out how they hire, the common challenges they face, what works in the hiring process – and what doesn’t.

Join our webinar panel as we explore our research findings and share practical lessons on how to rebuild trust in their recruitment processes by finding new methods for identifying and securing the right talent.

Topics will include:
- Common factors undermining trust in HR processes
- Examples of successful approaches in tackling such issues
- The role of HR technology in delivering a future fit workforce

Are you trying to create a structure for feedback? Or just don’t know where to start when it comes to the practical aspect of giving feedback?

Giving feedback is about helping someone achieve objectivity about their results, which drives self-awareness. It can be for a new recruit or if you are looking at developing individuals within your organisation.

Join Senior Global Training and Education Manager, Kira and Global Training Specialist, Alex Clinton, as they discuss how to set the scene and give constructive feedback.

Key takeaways:
- Best practice for setting up a feedback session
- How to deliver challenging feedback
- Tips for getting people to open up and questions to ask

This webinar is for Thomas trained users, customers and line managers who need to give feedback to their employees.

Kira van Niekerk, Senior Global Training & Education Manager at Thomas International, is a registered psychometrist who has a passion for people excellence and the promotion of self-awareness at the individual, team and organisational level. She has experience facilitating team workshops and awareness sessions, with a focus on positive psychology and personal effectiveness. Kira has worked with a variety of clients in different industries and has experience in the industrial, clinical and medicolegal fields. She is also a certified mindfulness life coach.

Alex Clinton has experience in sales, customer service and people management in the retail sector, and 15 years of corporate experience managing training operations and programmes in the IT and telecommunications sectors. Alex joined Thomas International UK in February 2013, and managed two client-facing teams before becoming a Global Training Specialist. She is accredited by the ILM as a Level 5 Business Coach and Mentor, and is an experienced team workshop facilitator. Her passions are developing self-awareness, people development and client development.

„By undertaking the Behaviour assessment followed by 360, it notably helped to remove the anxiety around the newfound responsibilities for many of the managers and helped them to realize that we were all in it together.” Julie Pegg, HRBP@Siemens
360 provides your business with an objective framework for identifying performance gaps, developing self-awareness, creating an environment for constructive and honest feedback, and supporting organisational processes through all company levels.
Key takeaways:
- Valid strategy to uncover issues that may be affecting employee performance
- What does an objective framework looks when exploring the gap between identity and reputation is mandatory
- How to dedicate the right amount of effort to manage your high achievers
- Innovative ways to open channels of communication for improvement amongst teams
- Increase self-awareness to enhance team collaboration and work performance
This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders, and managers looking to improve their leadership and team development strategy by addressing training needs and potential of each individual.
Diana Ciuraru is HR Manager @DS Smith Paper Division. She has great expertise in all HR processes and now is responsible for the deployment of development & succession plans, talent acquisitions, and change management.
Emilia Bradea is Client Developer & Senior Trainer for Thomas International in Romania. Her main focus is to support clients in integrating Thomas assessments in all people-related processes, for the entire life cycle of an employee. She has run several long-term development programs that effectively upgrade managerial and leadership skills in multi-national companies.

The perfect recruitment match can be hard to make. But with all the right assessments in your arsenal, you should have no problem.

Join Senior Global Training and Education Manager, Kira and Customer Success Manager, Emily, as they share how you can use HPTI for recruitment and onwards, integrating it into the full employee lifecycle.

Key takeaways include:
- How you can use HPTI for effective recruitment at every level
- How to use HPTI in partnership with other assessments
- The power of Personality and potential across the employee lifecycle

This webinar is for Thomas Customers who are looking to improve their usage and understanding of assessments, in particular Personality.

Kira van Niekerk, Senior Global Training & Education Manager at Thomas International, is a registered psychometrist who has a passion for people excellence and the promotion of self-awareness at the individual, team and organisational level. She has experience facilitating team workshops and awareness sessions, with a focus on positive psychology and personal effectiveness. Kira has worked with a variety of clients in different industries and has experience in the industrial, clinical and medicolegal fields. She is also a certified mindfulness life coach.

Emily Williams has worked in Customer Success and Development at Thomas International for over 5 years. In her role, she provides dedicated support to her clients' people-focussed projects, ensuring they benefit from Emily's insights and expertise and maximising the value Thomas can bring to their business. She is a trained practitioner and product expert and is currently studying for a Masters in Occupational Psychology.

Join our interactive Q&A session for Thomas customers, in which our experts will share practical tips, good practice and easy-to-adopt guidance. Using assessments and reports more effectively in your business, to meet the recognised challenges of building and developing high performing teams, has never been easier.

Learning and Development Specialist, Claire Dwight and Customer Success Manager, Heather Jones, will provide easy to digest information about the ways you can use PPA Teams to develop and build your high performing teams. You can pose your questions to them in advance or during this interactive and engaging session.

Key takeaways:

- Use of PPA Teams to create the ideal team and compare to your actual team

- Improve team motivation, engagement and productivity

- A full Teams session that you can run, with your team, yourself

This webinar is for Thomas customers looking to improve their use of assessments and to understand the ways they can more effectively use PPA Teams in the Thomas Hub.

Claire Dwight has worked as a Trainer at Thomas for over 5 years. She is a BPS Qualified Practitioner and a certified online learning facilitator. She has trained clients in all of the Thomas assessments and is responsible for the upskilling, training and approval of Thomas Trainers globally.

Heather Jones has worked in Customer Success and Development at Thomas for over 4 years. She is a trained practitioner and product expert, providing clients with dedicated support for their people-focused projects.

How to use personality assessment to identify candidates most likely to be successful in your organisation.

"Previous work experience is a poor predictor of success in a new role." (Van Iddekinge, Arnold, Frieder, and Roth (2018) 

So how do you know if someone will be successful in your organisation? Personality assessments gives a deep insight into the traits that drive the way your people work, providing a complete view of elements such as goal setting, coping with stress, handling change, creativity, risk and competition.

But what does this mean for your organisation and how can you begin to adopt such an approach to talent evaluation?

Register for our webinar to discover practical lessons learnt on topics such as:

- How Personality is used alongside other assessment types to predict candidate fit
- How Personality assessments relates to the Big Five model
- Which Personality traits are advantageous for different roles within an organisation

This webinar is for HR professionals, people managers and Senior Leadership looking to improve their people management processes.

Professor Adrian Furnham is a British organisational and applied psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Norwegian Business Institute and co-author of Thomas International’s workplace personality assessment, the High Potential Trait Indicator (HPTI). 

Jayson Darby leads the Global Science function at Thomas; a group of psychologists applying business psychology, research methods and data analytics across Thomas International. Sitting within the Product and Technology group, the Science team inform the psychological and psychometric aspects of our product design, validate our psychological products and solutions and apply their technical skills to drive Product outcomes through statistical modelling, applied data science and Machine Learning methodologies.

As businesses look to bounce back after a difficult 2020, they’ll be looking to grow and, therefore, hire more people. However, many will likely be working with fewer resources and addressing a larger candidate pool than in previous years as a result of the pandemic.
In the face of these challenges, it’s even more critical that business leaders have the right tools and support so they can hire best-fit candidates.

Join host Emilia Bradea and guest speaker Natalia Sima as they discuss best practices in all recruitment processes, especially when it comes to making decisions about hiring the perfect fit.
Key takeaways:
- The recruitment process:an overview from Zes Zollner Electronic’s expertise
- Looking beyond the CV
- Making the right recruitment choices
- Positive Candidate Experience

This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders, and managers looking to improve their recruitment strategies by addressing the need of using objective data and standardized processes in order to choose the best talent. Please note that the webinar will in Romanian.

Natalia Sima is Senior Recruitment Specialist for Zes Zollner. She is responsible for recruiting and selection process of management staff and technical specialists in the field of electronics manufacturing services for automotive, telecommunication, industrial electronics, and aeronautic industries. She is a certified trainer in all Thomas PPA, successfully using psychometrics tools to identify talented people who have behavioral profiles compatible with the professional challenges within the company.

Emilia Bradea is Client Developer & Senior Trainer for Thomas International in Romania. Her main focus is to support clients in integrating Thomas assessments in all people-related processes, for the entire life cycle of an employee. She has run several long-term development programs that provided an effective upgrade of managerial and leadership skills in multi-national companies.

60-80% of all difficulties in organisations come from strained relationships among employees*

The cost of conflict in organisations is high. So how can you manage conflict in the workplace?

Join Senior Global Training and Education Manager, Kira van Niekerk and Customer Success Manager, Heather Jones, in our latest LIVE customer Q&A, "How to have courageous conversations" as they discuss:

- Why it's important to have tough conversations
- How to approach courageous conversations
- What assessments/reports to use, to make your courageous conversations easier

This webinar is for Thomas Customers, HR Professionals and people managers looking to improve communication and resolve conflict within the workplace.

Kira van Niekerk, Senior Global Training & Education Manager at Thomas International, is a registered psychometrist who has a passion for people excellence and the promotion of self-awareness at the individual, team and organisational level. She has experience facilitating team workshops and awareness sessions, with a focus on positive psychology and personal effectiveness. Kira has worked with a variety of clients in different industries and has experience in the industrial, clinical and medicolegal fields. She is also a certified mindfulness life coach.

Heather Jones has worked in Customer Success and Development at Thomas for over 4 years. She is a trained practitioner and product expert, providing clients with dedicated support for their people-focused projects.

85% of CEOs whose organisations have a D&I strategy say it has enhanced business performance.
(PwC, 2015)

Workplace diversity is far more than just a moral issue. Organisations can harness the difference in people to help them become more successful, more innovative, more skilled and better able to cater to their diverse clients’ needs. However, putting the right steps in place to build a diverse workforce can be challenging. So, what can you do?

Join Organisational Psychologist, Mollie Tatlow & Neal Verman, HR Director at Chestertons as they discuss the importance of having a D&I strategy in your recruitment and people processes, how to cultivate an inclusive workforce and the challenges you may come across.

Key takeaways:
• Why is diversity important in the workplace?
• Useful statistics on bias, diversity and inclusion
• How you can cultivate diversity in the workplace

This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders and managers looking to improve their diversity and inclusion strategy by addressing unconscious bias in the workplace.

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail..” – Abraham Maslow, psychologist

Choosing a developmental plan for your people without taking into consideration employee’s training needs, potential and personal goals may lead to underperformance and low engagement. To avoid doing this, leaders need to become more aware of the potential and power of their people.

Join host Emilia Bradea and guest speaker Eduard Lopez in the thirteen webinar of our Thomas Talks as they discuss coaching in development, especially when it comes to making decisions on leadership and succession planning.

Key takeaways:
- Ways to steer away from unhelpful leadership styles
- How to identify development needs
- Ways to motivate and engage your people
- How to support high potential individuals' growth


This webinar is for HR professionals, leaders, and managers looking to improve their leadership and team development strategy by addressing training needs and potential of each individual.

Eduard Lopez is Senior Corporate Leader & Coach. He is passionate about working with people, to develop them to high-performance standards through coaching and mentoring. He is a certified trainer in all Thomas PPA, successfully using psychometrics tools to identify behavioral profiles in all his training and coaching sessions.

Emilia Bradea is Client Developer & Senior Trainer for Thomas International in Romania. Her main focus is to support clients in integrating Thomas assessments in all people-related processes, for the entire life cycle of an employee. She has run several long-term development programs that provided an effective upgrade of managerial and leadership skills in multi-national companies.

Join our LIVE interactive customer Q&A session where our experts will share practical tips, good practice and easy-to-adopt guidance for creating a culture of leadership in your organisation.

On the agenda:

- How to develop leaders at every level of your organisation
- Understanding leaders beyond their qualifications
- Practical tips on which reports to use to cultivate your leaders

This webinar is for Thomas customers looking to improve their use of assessments and reports available in the Thomas Hub, to better drive leadership performance. 

Claire Dwight has worked as a Trainer at Thomas for over 5 years. She is a BPS Qualified Practitioner and a certified online learning facilitator. She has trained clients in all of the Thomas assessments and is responsible for the upskilling, training and approval of Thomas Trainers globally.

Kira van Niekerk, Senior Global Training & Education Manager at Thomas International, is a registered psychometrist who has a passion for people excellence and the promotion of self-awareness at the individual, team and organisational level. She has experience facilitating team workshops and awareness sessions, with a focus on positive psychology and personal effectiveness. Kira has worked with a variety of clients in different industries and has experience in the industrial, clinical and medicolegal fields. She is also a certified mindfulness life coach.

2021 is the year for rebuilding. There is more talent available, location is no longer a problem with remote working the new norm and technology advances in the last year are making recruiting and onboarding easier than ever. But how can you Improve your hiring process to help you find the right person, every time?

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.”

With predictive hiring, you can combine science, data and analytics to predict who will be a good
fit for your job role, and who is most likely to be successful in the position, before extending a job offer. Thomas can generate insights on aptitude and behavioural fit, as well as other characteristics that YOU can apply to both current and future roles well before you’ve invested large amounts of time, money and resource in your recruitment process.

With data-led recruitment you can:

- Reduce the cost per hire
- Decrease the time to hire
- Improve effectiveness of teams by more accurately identifying best-fit candidates for critical roles
- Increase retention, engagement and speed to competency

This webinar is for HR professionals, people managers and Senior Leadership looking for insights into their people management processes.

Caitlin Meyer is an Occupational Psychologist at Thomas International. She is a registered member of the Health Professions Council of South Africa and has over 15 years experience in Business Psychology practices.

Stephen Rogers is an expert in assessing the fit of people to jobs and teams over the last 18 years. He has been making use of the Thomas Behavioural assessment for the past 12 years to connect the right person with the right job. He is dedicated to assisting clients to select, develop, manage and retain the right people in the right jobs to improve performance and employee engagement.

Thomas International Nederland start dit jaar met de introductie van Thomas ENGAGE.

Voor bedrijven is nu het perfecte moment om te kijken naar de betrokkenheid van hun medewerkers. De afgelopen maanden hebben waarschijnlijk, met de impact van Covid-19, de nodige sporen achtergelaten. Voor elke organisatie is het van belang om inzicht te krijgen in de betrokkenheid van hun medewerkers om er vervolgens zo snel mogelijk samen aan te gaan werken: betrokken medewerkers bepalen het succes van je organisatie!

Wij nodigen je graag uit voor dit webinar / interactieve workshop om kennis te maken met Thomas Engage en hoe ons onderzoek je kan helpen om de betrokkenheid van je medewerkers te meten en te verhogen!

Dit webinar / workshop is interessant voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in de medewerkersbetrokkenheid van hun organisatie; leidinggevenden, managers, HR-professionals, coaches en trainers.

Levina de Vreeze, Country Director Thomas Nederland, maakt sinds 2007 deel uit van team Thomas. Voor die tijd deed Levina internationale werkervaring op bij diverse bedrijven in de hospitality, werving en selectie en HR(M). Zij bekijkt de markt vanuit kansen en mogelijkheden en levert met haar energieke, enthousiaste benadering een positieve bijdrage aan uitdagende projecten. Levina denkt out-of-the-box en zoekt samen met haar relaties naar resultaatgerichte oplossingen.

“Leiderschap maakt het verschil in een werkomgeving waar medewerkers betrokken & bevlogen (samen)werken.” Dorianne is organisatieconsultant, coach en trainer. Zij is een veranderaar, vernieuwer en verbinder. Haar expertise en passie komen samen in leiderschap- en organisatieontwikkeling. Zij werkt met flair, creativiteit en daadkracht, haar stijl is transparant en doortastend. Dorianne begeleidt continue ontwikkelen van mens en organisatie. Zij helpt ambities realiseren.

Join our LIVE interactive Q&A session for Thomas customers, in which our experts will share practical tips, good practice and easy-to-adopt guidance. Using assessments and reports more effectively in your business, to meet the recognised challenges of building and developing high performing teams, has never been easier.

Learning and Development Specialist, Claire Dwight and Customer Success Manager, Heather Jones, will provide easy to digest information about the ways you can use PPA Teams to develop and build your high performing teams. You can pose your questions to them in advance or during this interactive and engaging session.

Key takeaways:

- Use of PPA Teams to create the ideal team and compare to your actual team

- Improve team motivation, engagement and productivity

- A full Teams session that you can run, with your team, yourself

This webinar is for Thomas customers looking to improve their use of assessments and to understand the ways they can more effectively use PPA Teams in the Thomas Hub.

Claire Dwight has worked as a Trainer at Thomas for over 5 years. She is a BPS Qualified Practitioner and a certified online learning facilitator. She has trained clients in all of the Thomas assessments and is responsible for the upskilling, training and approval of Thomas Trainers globally.

Heather Jones has worked in Customer Success and Development at Thomas for over 4 years. She is a trained practitioner and product expert, providing clients with dedicated support for their people-focused projects.

Aptitude shows how quickly a candidate or employee can adapt to new situations and Behaviour offers insights into ways to motivate, manage and engage your employees and team. If you want to engage and motivate your employees, you need to understand both and how they work together.

Key takeaways:

- Best practice using Behaviour and Aptitude in your recruitment process
- Ways to manage, motivate and engage your employees based on their aptitude and workplace behaviours
- The value of different Behavioural profiles within a team
- How Version 1 have made the best use of Behaviour, Aptitude and more across the employee lifecycle

This webinar is for HR professionals, people managers and Senior Leadership looking for insights into their people management processes.

Alan joined Version 1 in February 2014 as the Organisational Development Manager. He and his team are responsible for ensuring every employee can grow and develop their careers and unleash their potential in Version 1. In a previous life, he worked as a L&D consultant in Aviva Insurance, with a particular interest in areas such as performance management, employee onboarding, leadership development and the area of employee empowerment. His current role means he’s involved in every aspect of an employee’s career life cycle from the recruitment process to onboarding and beyond; working closely with leaders to ensure they’re equipped to drive the business forward and ensuring they have high performing teams.


Alice Kiss is Customer Success Manager at Thomas international. She joined Thomas International in January 2020, after previously working in Learning and Development in the NHS. Her focus was on designing Leadership Development and values and behaviours programmes. Now in her role as Customer Success Manager she works closely with customers during onboarding and continues to help them see the value Thomas can bring to their business.

Thomas International Nederland start dit jaar met de introductie van Thomas ENGAGE.

Voor bedrijven is nu het perfecte moment om te kijken naar de betrokkenheid van hun medewerkers. De afgelopen maanden hebben waarschijnlijk, met de impact van Covid-19, de nodige sporen achtergelaten. Voor elke organisatie is het van belang om inzicht te krijgen in de betrokkenheid van hun medewerkers om er vervolgens zo snel mogelijk samen aan te gaan werken: betrokken medewerkers bepalen het succes van je organisatie!

Wij nodigen je graag uit voor dit webinar / interactieve workshop om kennis te maken met Thomas Engage en hoe ons onderzoek je kan helpen om de betrokkenheid van je medewerkers te meten en te verhogen!

Dit webinar /workshop is interessant voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in de medewerkersbetrokkenheid van hun organisatie; leidinggevenden, managers, HR-professionals, coaches en trainers.

Levina de Vreeze, Country Director Thomas Nederland, maakt sinds 2007 deel uit van team Thomas. Voor die tijd deed Levina internationale werkervaring op bij diverse bedrijven in de hospitality, werving en selectie en HR(M). Zij bekijkt de markt vanuit kansen en mogelijkheden en levert met haar energieke, enthousiaste benadering een positieve bijdrage aan uitdagende projecten. Levina denkt out-of-the-box en zoekt samen met haar relaties naar resultaatgerichte oplossingen.

“Leiderschap maakt het verschil in een werkomgeving waar medewerkers betrokken & bevlogen (samen)werken.” Dorianne is organisatieconsultant, coach en trainer. Zij is een veranderaar, vernieuwer en verbinder. Haar expertise en passie komen samen in leiderschap- en organisatieontwikkeling. Zij werkt met flair, creativiteit en daadkracht, haar stijl is transparant en doortastend. Dorianne begeleidt continue ontwikkelen van mens en organisatie. Zij helpt ambities realiseren.