Customer Story:

Construction Hiring Assessment Case Study: 15-27% Higher Performance

How a construction and civil engineering company used job analysis and pre-employment assessments to improve hiring, crew performance, and workforce development.

Industry: Construction & Civil Engineering
Topic: Employee Selection

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Challenge:

A private equity-backed construction and civil engineering company was focused on rapid revenue growth and needed to expand its frontline workforce while maintaining high performance standards.

Crew members and superintendents were especially critical to operational capacity and growth, making better hiring and development for these roles a priority. The organization also wanted to strengthen selection for sales engineers responsible for generating new business.

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Solution:

ForPsyte conducted a comprehensive job analysis of crew member and superintendent roles to identify the skills and competencies required for successful performance.

Using this research and incumbent employee performance data, customized pre-employment assessment scoring was developed to identify candidates whose characteristics were most closely aligned with success in each role.

Assessment profiles were created across multiple job levels, including crew members, superintendents, and sales engineers. The job analysis also provided the foundation for a standardized skill and development roadmap across crew positions.

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Outcome:

Candidates with stronger assessment results received 15-27% higher job performance ratings across multiple roles, demonstrating a clear relationship between assessment scores and on-the-job performance.

Better selection and development practices also contributed to an 8% improvement in crew utilization, helping the company more effectively deploy its frontline workforce.

The impact extended to revenue-generating roles. Sales engineers identified as stronger fits through the assessment process generated significantly more proposals and secured higher-margin contracts than lower-scoring employees.

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• 15-27% higher performance ratings among high-scoring employees across multiple roles

• 8% improvement in crew utilization through stronger selection and workforce development

• Stronger sales engineer performance, including more proposals and higher-margin contracts

• Standardized crew development roadmap created from the job analysis to support development from the point of hire