As we cross the halfway mark of the year, it’s the perfect time to evaluate your hiring strategy. Is your team built to help you finish the year strong, or is a talent gap holding you back?
Whether you’re in insurance, automotive, or another growth-focused industry, your team’s performance directly impacts your year-end outcomes. Now is the time to take a hard look at where your hiring stands and what tools you have to improve it.
We’ll walk you through the best ways to conduct a mid-year hiring check-in, and how IdealTraits can help at every step.
1. Review Your Current Team Structure
Before you look outward, look inward. Analyze your current staff:
- Who is currently excelling in their role?
- Who’s under pressure or may be stretched too thin?
- Are there roles that have evolved, or been abandoned?
Your mid-year review should look beyond the number of people on your team and focus on their impact. Are they in the right roles? Are they aligned with your business goals?
How IdealTraits Helps:
- Discover trends in top-performing employees using assessment data
- Align new hires with the traits that match your existing team’s success
- Identify where key skills or personalities are missing from your team
IdealTraits helps you dig deeper by identifying what traits your top performers share. Our behavioral assessments provide insight into the personality and motivators of your best hires, giving you a clearer picture of the types of candidates you should be targeting to replicate that success. Assess your current staff at any time to find out more about your top performers and identify any gaps that may need to be filled.
2. Evaluate Hiring Progress So Far
Be honest with yourself about what’s been working and what hasn’t:
- Have you made all of the hires you planned to at the beginning of the year?
- Are those hires meeting your expectations?
- Has unexpected turnover slowed you down?
If you’ve been slow to hire, it’s not too late, but it is time to act with purpose. A streamlined hiring process can help you make quality hires quickly so you don’t miss opportunities in the second half of the year.
How IdealTraits Helps:
- Track every candidate through the pipeline with our built-in applicant tracking system (ATS)
- Measure success rates with assessment and interview scores
- Adjust your strategy in real time using platform analytics
With IdealTraits, every candidate moves through a structured process. You can track applicants, review historical data, and pinpoint which roles and ads are underperforming. Plus, you’ll get visibility into which hiring stages are causing delays. You can even automate check-in actions through Automated Workflows to ensure no star candidate gets lost in the shuffle.
3. Revisit the Quality of Your Candidate Pipeline
The job market is constantly shifting. If your open roles aren’t attracting the right candidates, it might not be the talent pool… it could be your approach.
- Are your job ads clear, engaging, and aligned with the role?
- Are you posting in the right places to reach your target applicants?
- Are you relying solely on resumes, or are you assessing true potential?
With IdealTraits, you can elevate your entire sourcing strategy. Our platform doesn’t just broadcast your jobs to top boards like Indeed and ZipRecruiter, but it automatically screens applicants based on the attributes, motivations, and skills that matter most to your business. That way, you’re not just getting more candidates, you’re moving forward with the right ones.
4. Lean on Automation to Save Time and Stay Consistent
Hiring often gets deprioritized simply because it takes time. But with IdealTraits, you don’t have to choose between growing your team and running your business.
Our Automated Workflows feature takes care of repetitive tasks so you don’t have to:
- Send assessments, video interviews, and text messages automatically
- Trigger follow-ups based on behavior (e.g., high assessment scores)
- Move candidates through your pipeline, even while you sleep
5. Set a 90-Day Action Plan
Getting your team where it needs to be by year-end starts now.Use this moment to build a 90-day hiring roadmap:
- Identify immediate hiring priorities
- Assign responsibilities for outreach, interviews, and onboarding
- Use performance data to set clear benchmarks
How IdealTraits Helps:
- Set hiring goals and monitor progress with pipeline metrics
- Leverage our support team or Virtual Hiring Assistant service for additional help creating job ads, engaging applicants, and driving results
Don’t Wait Until Q4 to Catch Up
By the time Q4 rolls around, your new hires should be up and running, not just starting the onboarding process. That’s why your mid-year check-in matters.
With IdealTraits, you can build a stronger team with less guesswork, fewer manual tasks, and more confidence in your hiring decisions.
👉 Ready to finish the year strong? Let us help you align your hiring strategy with your business goals.