Right Person, Right Role: The Secret to Hiring Top Performers

By
Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
Posted
Monday, June 30, 2025
Tags
#Employment
#Hiring
#Performance
#TalentAcquisition
#TalentManagement
#eRepServices
Right Person, Right Role: The Secret to Hiring Top Performers

Find the Best Job For You - Get your Personalized Career Guide tailored to match your personality, now included with the Core Values Index, just $49.95

Finding the right person for the right job is one of the most vital—and most difficult—tasks in business. While traditional hiring methods focus heavily on resumes, interviews, and gut instinct, these often fall short in predicting how well a person will truly fit and thrive in a role. That's where the Core Values Index (CVI™) and Top Performer Profile (TPP™) from eRep come in. Together, they create a breakthrough system for hiring that benefits both employers and employees by ensuring a natural, values-based fit between a person and their work.

What Is a Top Performer Profile?

→ A Top Performer Profile (TPP), provided by eRep, is a data-driven benchmark that defines the Core Values Index makeup of individuals who consistently excel in a specific role within an organization.

Developed through analyzing the CVI scores of high-performing employees, the TPP identifies the ideal combination of core value energies—such as Wisdom, Power, Love, and Knowledge—that naturally align with the demands of that job. This enables employers to objectively match candidates to roles where they are most likely to thrive, improving performance, engagement, and retention by ensuring that each hire is innately suited for success.

The CVI and TPP approach transforms hiring from a subjective gamble into a strategic advantage.

Shared Benefits: What Employers and Workers Gain

When a worker is hired into a role based on a TPP and CVI alignment, both the employer and the employee experience powerful, long-term benefits:

For Employers:

  • Improved Productivity: The employee naturally performs well because their core strengths match the role.
  • Lower Turnover: Well-matched employees are more satisfied and less likely to leave.
  • Efficient Onboarding: Workers ramp up faster with less training because the work fits them intuitively.
  • Better Team Dynamics: Value-aligned hires reduce friction and contribute more harmoniously to team success.
  • Higher ROI on Talent: Each hire becomes a better investment, reducing the cost of poor performance and misalignment.
→ Workers placed in a role through a "high recommend" TPP match often experience 200% or higher productivity and 50% or lower turnover compared to their unmatched co-workers.

For Workers:

  • Greater Job Satisfaction: The work feels energizing, not draining, leading to a more positive day-to-day experience.
  • Deeper Engagement: Employees are able to make their "highest and best contribution," which fuels long-term motivation.
  • Personal Growth: When workers are in the right role, they develop more confidently and effectively.
  • Reduced Stress and Conflict: They spend less time adapting and more time thriving.
  • Fulfillment and Purpose: Roles aligned with innate values create a genuine sense of meaning at work.

A Smarter Way to Hire

The CVI and TPP approach transforms hiring from a subjective gamble into a strategic advantage. Instead of trying to train people to be something they're not, this methodology ensures each individual is placed in a role that draws on their natural strengths from day one. The result? A more engaged workforce, stronger performance, and a workplace culture built on purpose and contribution.

When you align who a person is with what the job requires, you don't just get a better hire—you get a more successful and fulfilled human being.

Core Values Index™ and CVI™ are trademarks of Taylor Protocols, Inc.


Go to eRep.com/core-values-index/ to learn more about the CVI or to take the Core Values Index assessment.

Employees hired with a CVI that closely matches a Top Performer Profile often outperform candidates hired without a TPP match by 200% or more. → Learn more


Steve Williamson

Steve Williamson

Innovator/Banker - VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.

Steve has a career in project management, software development and technical team leadership spanning three decades. He is the author of a series of fantasy novels called The Taesian Chronicles (ruckerworks.com), and when he isn't writing, he enjoys cycling, old-school table-top role-playing games, and buzzing around the virtual skies in his home-built flight simulator.

View additional articles by this contributor

Share This Article

Get Started with the CVI™

Stay Updated

Employer Account Sign-up

Sign up for an employer account and get these features and functions right away:

  • Unlimited Job Listings on eRep.com
  • Applicant Search
  • Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
  • Unlimited Happiness Index employee surveys
  • 3 full/comprehensive CVIs™
  • No credit card required — no long-term commitment — cancel at any time

Write for eRep

Are you interested in writing for eRep? Read our submission guidelines.


Learn more about the CVI