360 Assessments as part of the recruitment process?

I recently came across the following article on a current trend in Talent Management on Dion Chang’s Flux Trends website (www.fluxtrends.co.za): Retrenchment and Talent Management: The time of the chameleon . It makes an interesting point about behavioural attributes becoming significantly more important than skills when recruiting.

360 Assessments: The number one question you should be asking

All too often we come across HR executives who feel that despite all their time and effort their previous 360 just didn’t meet expectations.

This is often the point at which we are approached and generally we find that the problem can be attributed to one fundamental issue not having been addressed, namely “Why?”  Or more specifically – Why are we conducting this 360 Assessment and what are we hoping to achieve?