Introduction............................................................................
Important Considerations.............................................
Implementation Timeline & Assessment.........................
Evaluating Role Context & Needs.............................................
Step 1: Consider Company Context................................
Step 2: Role Priority & Focus..........................................
Step 3: Strategic Direction............................................
Step 4: Combination Analysis........................................
Engaging with Candidates.......................................................
Creating Project Teams.................................................
Questions to Know Your Candidate..........................................
Foundational Roles........................................................
Future Roles..................................................................
Legal Disclaimer.......................................................................
The WethosAI approach to recruiting focuses on understanding the nuanced working styles and dynamics that drive team success. By analyzing how individuals approach tasks, make decisions, and interact with others, organizations can build more cohesive high-performing teams and make more informed hiring decisions.
- Misalignment between individual work styles and job requirements.
- Cultural integration challenges when hiring new team members.
- Difficulty in assessing candidate fit beyond traditional resume screening.
- Provides a comprehensive candidate picture.
- Improves team chemistry and cultural fit alignment.
- Reduces turnover by ensuring style compatibility.
- More informed and confident hiring decisions.
The Wethos Style assessment is a complementary tool, providing insights into work preferences and team fit. It should not be the sole basis for hiring decisions. We do not recommend using it during the initial interviews or as a substitute for any traditional technical assessments.
- Use WethosAI insights as a tool for understanding, not a barrier.
- Recognize there’s always potential for adaptability and growth.
- Ensure fair and comprehensive evaluation of all candidates.
- Technical skills already validated.
- Candidates have passed initial screenings.
- During final interviews, once candidates are narrowed to five or fewer.
- Use transparent communication about assessment purpose.
- Explain how the assessment supports fair and comprehensive hiring.
- Provide context about the organization's approach to team dynamics.
Emerging vs. Established
An emerging company may need adaptable, quick-moving generalists, while an established company might thrive with process-driven specialists who maintain structure.
Horizontal vs. Hierarchical
Horizontal teams tend to thrive on adaptability and cross-functional collaboration, while hierarchical teams often excel through clear roles and consistent processes.
Startups vs. Mature
Startup organizations might seek builders and risk-takers to shape culture, while mature organizations may need stabilizers who bring consistency and long-term planning.
Understanding the broader impact of the role will help you prioritize qualities when assessing the best fit.
Identify the position’s implications: Is this a leadership role or an individual contributor role? Leadership roles often focus on guiding others and driving team outcomes. While individual contributor roles often focus on owning and executing personal deliverables.
Clarify the purpose of the hire within the context of team dynamics. Are you looking for someone to round out your current team? If so, your ideal candidate may differ from someone selected primarily for their individual strengths or Wethos Style as a contributor.
Before using Wethos Styles to guide hiring, it’s crucial to understand your company’s status, structure, and dynamics, and the general candidate archetype needed. Different environments call for different strengths, and clarity here helps ensure you’re building teams that truly fit, complement, and elevate your organization. Knowing this sets the stage for better alignment, stronger performance, and longer retention.
When defining roles within an organization, it's essential to consider both the primary focus of the role and the strategic approach needed. Every position tends to emphasize either a foundational (internal) or future-oriented (external) focus, while also aligning with a specific strategic approach: broad expansion, stabilizing, or incremental expansion.
Understanding these combinations helps organizations match the right person to the right role based on both organizational needs and individual strengths. A clear definition of role focus and strategic approach creates alignment between expectations and organizational goals, while providing clarity for potential candidates about what success looks like in the position.
The following areas shaded outline six possible range combinations of the Wethos role focus and strategic approach, highlighting the distinct perspective each brings to positions. By identifying which combination best suits a particular role, organizations can more effectively recruit, develop, and support their leadership team.
You’ve done the hard work, now let’s bring it to life!
With your ideal candidate profile in mind, you can upload candidates LinkedIn profile to get a potential read on their Wethos Style prior to them completing the 84-question assessment. Once they do complete the full assessment, see how to start building project teams to explore how they’d operate within your current team structure.
Now that you have categorized the role and aligned it with the corresponding Wethos Style, it’s time to move into the candidate evaluation process. This includes uploading LinkedIn profiles to generate a baseline style, having top candidates complete the full 84-question assessment, and adding them to a project team to assess how they’d integrate with your existing team dynamics.
