The McQuaig Psychometric System is a powerful recruitment tool that helps businesses hire the right candidate with confidence. If you want to improve hiring decisions, reduce costly mistakes and strengthen workplace culture, the McQuaig Psychometric System can transform your recruitment process.
A résumé and interview only reveal part of the story. The McQuaig Psychometric System provides deeper behavioural insight so you can truly understand candidate fit before making an offer.
So how do you improve your changes of selecting the right candidate?
Let us introduce you to one of our favourite personality assessment tools: the McQuaig Psychometric System.
The McQuaig System offers two powerful assessment tools that can be used independently or combined for the best recruitment outcomes.
What Is the McQuaig Psychometric System?
The McQuaig Psychometric System is a personality assessment tool designed to help employers make more informed hiring decisions.
It provides insight into a candidate’s natural behaviour, temperament, leadership style and workplace fit. When used correctly, McQuaig helps businesses reduce hiring risks and improve long-term cultural alignment.
McQuaig Psychometric System Job Survey: Define Your Ideal Candidate
The McQuaig Job Survey helps you define what the ideal candidate looks like before you start recruiting.
The questions are framed to really dig into what the employer is looking for in terms of the right person for the job.
Multiple stakeholders can complete the survey, generating a composite report that combines everyone’s input. This process:
• Encourages healthy internal discussion
• Aligns hiring managers
• Clarifies role expectations
• Reduces conflicting views during recruitment
A comprehensive report is then provided, outlining:
• The ideal behavioural profile
• Key traits required for success
• Suggested interview questions
We love conducting the McQuaig Job Survey before drafting a job advertisement. It allows us to use key phrases from the report to attract candidates who genuinely align with the role.
McQuaig Psychometric System Word Survey: Assess Candidate Fit
The McQuaig Word Survey is completed by shortlisted candidates online.
There is no pass or fail. The assessment simply provides valuable insight into how a candidate naturally behaves at work.
Once completed, a detailed psychometric report is generated, including:
Natural Behaviour and Temperament
How the candidate operates under normal workplace conditions.
Strengths, Value and Development Areas
What they bring to the role, potential growth areas and possible concerns.
Leadership Style
For management roles, the McQuaig Psychometric System outlines how a candidate:
• Builds relationships
• Provides direction
• Manages teams
Sales Style Insights
For sales roles, the report identifies their typical sales approach and techniques.
Coaching and Management Guidance
Practical guidance on how to manage, motivate and develop the individual based on their personality profile.
If you have completed the McQuaig Job Survey, the candidate’s results are matched against your ideal profile. You’ll clearly see whether they are:
• A strong match
• A potential match
• Not a fit for the role
Why Use the McQuaig Psychometric System?
The McQuaig Psychometric System provides an efficient, timely and cost-effective method of making an educated hiring decision.
Key benefits include:
• Reduced risk of poor hiring decisions
• Improved cultural alignment
• Structured interview and reference check questions
• Clear onboarding and management insights
• Better decision-making for senior or complex roles
The report genuinely assists in preventing wrong hires, saving time and costs associated with interviewing, training, inductions, client relationships and workplace disruption.
HR Staff n' Stuff love Mc Quaig
We believe in ‘hire slow, fire fast’!
The investment you make in the recruitment process to on-board the right person in the first place, goes a ridiculously long way to ensuring excellent workplace cultural fit and long term success. Also reducing problems that can be encountered down the road. We love using this tool to secure fantastic insight into candidates we’re considering for roles. We also know when someone is just not going to ‘fit’ a role or a client!
Knowledge is power when it comes to recruitment.
If you would like to learn more about the McQuaig Psychometric System, including reviewing a sample report and/or the costs involved, please contact the offices of HR Staff n’ Stuff and one of our team members will happily assist you.
