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How it works

Learn how Living Validity applies in practice.

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1. Custom Pre-Go-Live Validity Study

Before launch, HiPeople conducts a criterion-related, job-specific validity study based on your roles and success markers.

We use your:

  • Job descriptions

  • Performance or attrition signals

  • Example resumes or historical applicants

  • Hiring manager input

  • Internal definitions of success

From this, we:

  • Build role-specific competency models

  • Establish predictor–criterion linkages

  • Confirm content, construct, and criterion validity

  • Document job-relatedness for compliance

  • Calibrate scoring and weighting to your context

This produces organization-specific validity evidence, aligned with SIOP and APA guidelines.

2. Ongoing Validity Monitoring

Launching an assessment is only the starting point. Roles evolve, markets shift, and performance expectations change. HiPeople monitors these changes continuously to ensure your assessments remain predictive, fair, and aligned with real work.

1. Collect

We gather real-world performance data from your organisation. This can come from HiPeople’s QoH Analytics, direct integrations with HR and performance tools, or manual data uploads. These inputs form the basis for understanding how assessment scores relate to on-the-job outcomes.

2. Analyze

HiPeople reviews your assessment data alongside your performance data to evaluate how well the assessment is working. This includes monitoring:

  • Predictive validity

  • Shifts in score distributions

  • Adverse impact ratios

  • Changes in your talent pool

  • Role drift or evolving job requirements

  • Correlations with performance metrics

  • Effectiveness of weighting and scoring

This ongoing analysis addresses the well-documented issue of validity decay: the natural reduction in predictive accuracy that occurs when roles or work environments change over time.

3. Adjust

Based on what the data shows, HiPeople recommends updates to keep your assessments sharp and job-relevant. Updates may include:

  • Revised validity coefficients

  • Updated fairness diagnostics

  • New model recommendations

  • Item-level improvement suggestions

  • Calibration or reweighting guidance

These insights ensure your assessments continue to reflect:

  • Evolving responsibilities

  • Changes in the workforce

  • Shifts in talent supply

  • Updated definitions of performance

The result is an assessment program that stays relevant, predictive, and fair well beyond the initial launch. Continuous validity monitoring turns your assessments into a living system that adapts as your organisation grows and changes.

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