Being able to analyse your company DNA could hold the key to more successful recruitment. This is the belief of US-based career site Climber.com, which claims to be able to match employees to employers with an approach that is more akin to that of a dating site.

The DNA is created by getting a company's top-performing employees to complete a thorough online assessment of their work values (the high-flyers are identified via a company's performance management system). Candidates, or 'Climbers', who are typically passive rather than active jobseekers, carry out the same test on the Climber site and then "we play cupid", said Climber chief executive Mike O'Brien.

"It is simply how it [recruitment] should be done," he told Recruiter. "Recruiters spend countless hours wading through CVs of people who are not a good fit. Climber enables recruiters to get down to a shortlist of candidates that are well aligned with their organisation."

So does it work? Marie Burns is the East Coast lead recruiter for Accenture and has just started to trial Climber to find talent in the technology sector. "We came out very leadership and environment-oriented. So people who look for those types of things will be matched with us," she said. "Also people who look for a growth track can also see that it is part of our DNA." The trial has only just started but Burns said she already has five people who are a "great fit".

O'Brien said he is currently working with several multi-national organisations which are using Climber.com to source passive jobseekers in the US and added that it has also been approached by European organisations to duplicate the process for their non US-based requisitions.

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