OTM-API plugging in to personality

As a provider of HR Technology software, your product deals directly with people in the workplace.  People have personalities and bringing information about those personalities into focus is what OTM does best.

OTM-API is short for “Online Talent Manager Application Programming Interface”.  OTM-API is a way for our partners to use the power of personality testing and integrate the results directly into their own systems.  We offer a degree of detail that is unparalleled in the market and offer one of the easiest, technologically, to implement.

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Integrate Personality Matching Into Your System!

Make it easy for your customers to enhance candidate searches by helping them identify good fits between the function and the person. Provide more than a simple match based on resume keywords, provide a comprehensive personality fit score that supplies the information not visible in any resume.  See more about the matching questionnaire.

How does it work?

For the Candidate:

1. You have a candidate in your system.
2. You send a specially formatted HTTP-POST to the OTM-API with the candidate’s information.
3. You receive a URL link for the candidate to follow to fill in their tests. (you can email it, show it on the screen in your application, show the test in an iframe, etc)
4. When the candidate is finished with their tests, you download the results via a HTTP-POST request. (available in several data formats to make your programmers’ lives easier)

For the Manager:

1. We provide you with a simple questionnaire text to give to the manager, it takes anywhere from 2 minutes to 8 minutes to accurately describe a function and the type of person needed to fill that function.
2. You store the numerical answers from the manager in your system.
3. When the candidate(s) have completed their tests, you compare their numerical scores with the function description.

This gives you:

1. The degree of ‘fit’ between a candidate and this function, which you can represent as a single percentile score for the manager.
2. A simple way to see where the ‘misses’ between the function and the candidate are.

Did you see that? The only thing happening on the OTM web site, from your customer’s perspective, is the candidate testing. All other activities take place in your system following your user interaction in your interface with your data. We even put your logo in the candidate testing sessions.

Wins for you:

• Easy to integrate
• Broad test selection lets you choose to measure only the personality traits relevant for your product
• Better matching between a candidate and a function = better client satisfaction
• Your branding is used on candidate screens and in any reports generated by OTM
• Your customers stay in your system
• Support materials and reports are usable without extra training and are written in language any manager will recognize

Wins for your clients:

• Better matching of candidates and function
• Better engagement with employees because they understand their new employees more completely
• Easy to use; no extra logins or complicated steps, everything takes place in a single system (yours)
• Clear and accurate results

Here are some examples of how OTM-API has been integrated into other systems

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