"SOSIE allows us to avoid the risk of error at the time of hiring, by addressing points in the interview that we would not have identified during a simple exchange with a candidate."
Isabelle DEPREZ,
Recruitment Officer - HR, CT Engineering Group
Isabelle Deprez is a Recruitment Officer within The CT Engineering Group, an international Engineering company that employs more than 1,700 people worldwide. Thanks to her expertise and her teams, where innovation and technology are at the heart of their professions, the group supports its clients’ industrial projects by providing them with turnkey solutions to meet their technical challenges. Isabelle Deprez shares her feedback on the use of the SOSIE personality inventory, which has been used for a long time within the group for recruitment and internal mobility.
Supporting the growth of a group where it is good to work
In France, our challenges are multiple: to continue to meet the expectations of our clients in the field of aeronautics and to strengthen our diversification strategy in the naval and energy sectors..
We are growing rapidly and have more than a hundred positions to fill in France over the next two years. Despite our international approach, we remain a company focused on its people and ensure that we respect our motto "A place where people love to work" on a daily basis.
Ensuring that our future employees share the same values as the company
We therefore position ourselves as technical experts in our field of activity and each recruitment is crucial, especially in a very competitive environment. People and technical skills are the two key criteria for our success.
The use of a personality inventory in our recruitment process is therefore essential to validate that the person will share the same values that we carry daily within our group: the taste for challenge, mutual aid, listening, commitment, the desire to succeed together.
The use of the SOSIE tool, a plus in recruitment and support for internal mobility
The SOSIE personality test has been used for almost 30 years at group level. We took over the tool in France from the 2010s, when we joined the CT group, and we are very satisfied with it.
As a tool, it provides a complete look at personality traits as well as the values and sources of motivation in candidates. We use this test for each recruitment and also in the context of internal development.
The assurance of structured and qualitative interviews
SOSIE provides us with a lot of information in the context of recruitment. This allows us to avoid the risk of hiring errors, by addressing points in the interview that we would not have identified during a simple exchange with a candidate, for example.
It also saves time, allows us to focus during the candidate’s interview on specific questions related to the expectations of the position; to have a solid discussion on feelings or intuitions. Another advantage, this tool is usable in several languages, so we can have a common tool at international level.
A valued candidate experience, a minimized risk of hiring error
Candidates who have taken the SOSIE are generally very "surprised", even "amazed" by the exchange we have when returning the results. They "recognize themselves completely", "yes it's totally me!". In general, they are eager to know their results and appreciate the time we spend getting to know them better, understand their aspirations, their motivations, their "ways of functioning". This exchange adds value to the recruitment experience.
For evaluators, it provides support to the discussion, which allows them to explore the sources of motivation and to minimize the risks of error in relation to the characteristics of a position. The prior training in the use of SOSIE was fascinating and brought a lot of depth to the analysis of this type of questionnaire.