Our Process

We’re flexible about a lot of things at IQ PARTNERS but we take a disciplined approach when it comes to recruiting and placing talent. That’s because our process works. For our candidates, it means getting access to opportunities that match their professional and personal goals. For our clients, it means receiving great value and a shortlist of the very best candidates from a network of thousands.

Introducing smartFACTOR^TM

The Secret to Helping You Hire and Retain Top Candidates

To help us match smart people with great companies we developed smartFACTOR™—a proprietary candidate assessment tool that plays a key role in our process. We use smartFACTOR™ to evaluate candidates in three core areas:

Alignment with Corporate Values

Values alignment is a critical yet often overlooked element of recruiting. It’s not enough to assess a candidate for skills alone. It’s equally if not more important to determine whether they are a “fit” for the organization. The smartFACTOR™ methodology requires that our clients define their key corporate values upfront so that candidates can be measured against them.

General Skills

From self-motivation and resiliency to communication and problem-solving, these so-called “soft skills” might not appear on a resume but they can tell us a lot about a candidate and their suitability for the role. smartFACTOR™ helps us achieve a fuller, more accurate assessment by focusing on the skills that employers value today and are likely to value tomorrow.

Technical Skills

An important part of any recruiting process is gauging a candidate’s ability to be successful in the job. Do they have the right technical or job-specific skills? Which skills are prerequisites for the role and which are “nice to have”? These questions—evaluated through the lens of smartFACTOR™—help us narrow down our list of candidates from thousands to a select few.

How We Do It

We bring years of experience and a disciplined approach to our process. Our clients will vouch for its success.

We complete formal briefing documents to deliver a professional presentation of your company and the opportunity to prospective candidates.

We conduct market research to source premier talent in the industry.

We interview and qualify candidates using a Topgrading interview style and present detailed candidate assessments for each shortlisted candidate.

We complete and present formal references on selected candidates.

We debrief all non-selected candidates.

We follow up on all placements at 30, 60 and 90 days to ensure a smooth and successful transition for both the client and the candidate.