Overcome your biggest hiring challenges and avoid costly hiring mistakes
You need more than surface-level insights to find the right people because a poor hire doesn’t just drain resources — it disrupts team dynamics, affects morale, and derails progress.
Every hire counts and every mistake costs
Getting the hiring process right and hiring the right people is not just important — it’s essential. Unfortunately, companies today face significant hiring challenges.
- The problem? Traditional hiring methods, from applications and resumes to interviews, personality tests, and skill assessments, only scratch the surface and often miss the critical details that determine who will thrive within your team and company culture.
- The result? Candidates seem perfect on paper, have the right answers in interviews, and pass your skill assessments with flying colors. But once hired, they struggle in their roles, and you’re left scratching your head, trying to figure out where it went wrong.
The biggest challenges in recruiting and hiring
The process of attracting qualified candidates, identifying job fit, evaluating skills, and figuring out who will mesh well with a manager and their team is riddled with risk — and it involves so much more than personality, skill, and experience.
Wondering why hiring is so hard? Consider these challenges:
- Attracting qualified candidates.
- Inefficient hiring processes.
- Navigating hiring bias.
- Building a strong employer brand.
- Competition from other employers.
- Vetting candidates and their skills.
- Reliance on strengths-based data.
- Identifying job fit and manager fit.
- Improving the candidate experience.
Let’s look at each hiring challenge more closely and how Motivation Coded changes the game…
Attracting qualified candidates
Attracting enough qualified candidates is one of the toughest challenges in hiring today. Without a strong candidate pool, you risk settling for less-than-ideal hires who don’t fully meet the role’s demands, leading to costly turnover and reduced productivity. But when you attract top-level talent aligned with your goals, you build a team that’s engaged, motivated, and driven to succeed.
The thing is, attracting the right candidates means doing more than posting your job description on every job board from here to Mars.
When you add motivation into the mix — using the language of Motivation Code in job descriptions, interviews, and hiring language — you’ll naturally attract the right candidates. Knowing who you want to attract and speaking to what naturally captures their attention and interest and gives them energy is like waving a magic hiring wand.
Inefficient hiring processes
Obstacles during the hiring process — slow time-to-hire, multiple interviews, and endless hoops for candidates to jump through — are costly and frustrating. When hiring drags out, top candidates drop off, and the longer this goes on, the higher the risk of losing ideal hires to faster-moving competitors.
Imagine the difference hiring right and hiring fast can make.
MCode transforms the hiring process by revealing how each candidate is wired: what drives them to engage deeply and do their best, how they can best contribute value, and what they need to succeed. And a Job Fit Report maps their Motivations to a prospective role and manager so you can streamline the hiring process to hire right and hire fast.
Navigating hiring bias
Many hiring assessments suffer from a one-size-fits-all design, often influenced by Western-centric perspectives that unintentionally disadvantage diverse candidates. Similarly, popular personality tests categorize individuals based on limited theories of human types, an approach that fails to account for cultural diversity, lived experiences, and complex motivations.
MCode approaches candidates differently. The MCode assessment uses personal stories, lived experiences, and satisfaction to uncover a candidate’s Motivations, ensuring every MCode report is accurate, relevant, and actionable.
No subjective questions. No arbitrary personality typing. No sticking candidates in a predefined box that only sort of fits. Just deep behavioral insights that lead to matching candidates with roles they are perfectly suited for.
Building a strong employer brand
To attract top candidates, you need a strong employer brand. For some companies, this is about looking good — polished social media profiles, sleek “about us” pages, and photo ops that make it look like everyone’s living the dream. But the best way to build an employer brand isn’t through curated image-making; it’s through genuine enthusiasm from your people.
How great would it be if your employees told everyone they know how much they love their roles, teams, and the company they work for.
That kind of authentic enthusiasm is magnetic — it’s what makes others want to be part of what you’re building. And when use MCode to tap into Motivation and ensure every employee feels deeply connected to, engaged with, and satisfied by their work, they become your most powerful advocates and natural recruiters.
Competition from other employers
The war for talent is fierce. Every day, you’re up against competitors just as determined to snag the best people for their teams. The longer your hiring process takes, the greater the chance of a faster-moving rival stealing your top candidate — and nothing stings quite like losing someone you were ready to hire.
MCode gets you to the heart of job fit and manager fit so you can make confident offers before top talent is snatched away.
But remember — candidates have choices too. When evaluating multiple employment offers, they’re looking for more than perks and pay. MCode helps you ensure they feel seen, valued, and appreciated from the first conversation, making your company feel like the place they want to call home.
Vetting candidates and skills
Vetting candidates based solely on skills and experience? You can do it but it’s a major pitfall. You risk overlooking smart, motivated, highly capable people who simply haven’t had the chance to develop those skills yet.
Here’s the thing: Skills can be taught. What can’t be taught is the drive that makes a person want to go above and beyond, bringing real value to your team and business.
You can find out what truly excites a candidate — the type of projects that get them out of bed in the morning, the work that makes them want to push limits, and the environment where they thrive. With an MCode Job Fit Report, you’re not just filling a position; you’re hiring people naturally motivated to succeed.
Reliance on strengths-based data
Most interviewers ask the usual “strengths and weaknesses” question, which results in predictable answers that reveal little value. The truth is, people can use their strengths and still feel disconnected from their work.
Just because someone is good at something doesn’t mean they’ll care about it or want to do it. And employees doing tasks they don’t care about leads to procrastination, low productivity, and eventually, apathy.
What’s missing in the strengths-based approach is motivation — the why behind what makes people engage and perform at their best. MCode reveals this why and when you know what fuels a candidate’s drive, you get a clear sense of how they’ll feel about a role, and whether they’ll bring their best to it.
Identifying job fit
Matching the right person with the right role isn’t easy, especially when there’s pressure to fill a position fast. Too often, employers just need a “butt in the seat” but that quick fix can backfire, as even the most qualified candidates can feel disconnected and unmotivated if their role and work isn’t interesting.
Misalignment of job fit leads to disengagement, low productivity, and costly turnover, which puts you right back at square one.
When you get job fit right, however, everything changes. With MCode, you can identify the work that excites candidates and the environments where they thrive. You can not just discover what they can do but what they want to do — and that helps you confidently match the right person to the right role.
Identifying manager fit
Manager fit is just as important as job fit, yet most companies completely overlook this workplace dynamic. Truth: people don’t quit companies, they quit managers. A poor fit with a manager can send even your best people packing, leaving you to start the hiring process all over again.
The impact of a mismatched manager goes beyond turnover — it disrupts team morale, productivity, and the culture you’ve worked hard to build.
With MCode, you can zero in on manager fit just as much as job fit. By understanding what drives candidates and managers, you can anticipate friction and create compatible partnerships that fuel engagement and retention.
Candidate hiring experiences
The hiring experience can dictate whether they leap at your offer or walk away. Unfortunately, personality assessments asking subjective questions and forcing answers that don’t reflect who candidates are don’t do anyone any favors. Add vague expectations, long wait times, and endless rounds of interviews, and you’ve created a process that feels frustrating rather than exciting.
The MCode assessment doesn’t look at personality. It looks at motivation and gives candidates insights they can actually use in interviews with any potential employer, and on the job after they’re hired.
Choosing the MCode assessment shows candidates you care about understanding who they are at their best, and using MCode to streamline the process creates a better experience for everyone involved.
Hiring shouldn’t be a gamble
Make a safe bet, go with MCode, and take the guesswork out of hiring with a workplace assessment tool that reveals alignment factors beyond the resume.
Hiring the wrong person isn’t just a temporary setback. It’s a ripple effect that impacts productivity, drains resources, and chips away at morale. The thing is, traditional hiring methods aren’t equipped to reveal what drives people to perform at their best.
But you can change that with MCode.
By diving deep into what drives each candidate, MCode reveals who has the real potential to excel within your organization. That empowers you to hire not just for skills and experience but also for alignment, motivation, and compatibility with your leadership and organizational culture.
MCode: Your secret weapon for hiring success
Stop making hiring decisions that only look good on paper. With MCode, you’re not just filling a role — you’re aligning people with purpose. MCode uncovers the core motivations that drive people to perform at their best, so you know how a candidate will mesh with the position and your team.
Here’s how it changes the hiring game:
Identify
Job fit
Understand each candidate’s intrinsic motivations to predict if they’ll thrive in a role’s unique demands and be a high-value addition to your team.
Optimize
Manager fit
Discover if a candidate’s motivational profile aligns with their potential manager’s management style to set them both up for a powerful, strong, productive relationship.
Enhance team dynamics
MCode reveals how a candidate’s motivations contribute to a team’s overall dynamics and productivity and how they can best fill critical gaps.
Ready to hire with confidence?
Try MCode today to experience the difference motivation can make in the hiring process. Or, reach out to talk with our team about using our Job Fit Report — it won’t tell you which candidate to hire, but it will help you assess candidates for job fit and manager fit.