TALENT OPTIMIZATION ESSENTIALS
Avoid costly hiring mistakes and develop top talent
An all-in-one, science-backed solution to hire top performers, develop effective managers, and help your employees stay engaged and grow every day. The best of The Predictive Index, starting at an unbeatable price of $9950.
TRUSTED BY 10,000+ COMPANIES TO DELIVER OUTSTANDING RESULTS
$2.2M
Annual turnover savings at Club16
37.5M+
Assessments completed to drive smarter hiring
70 years
Of behavioral science powering results
Optimize talent across the entire employee lifecycle—in one seamless solution
Strategic HR and leadership teams can’t afford to fix hiring, development and retention in isolation.
That’s why we created Talent Optimization Essentials—a proven system of The Predictive Index’s best tools—to hire smarter, develop your talent at every level, and retain your people for lasting success.
Make stronger hires
Hiring mistakes are costly. Use science-backed tools like validated behavioral data, tailored interview questions, and onboarding templates to hire better and set them up for success.
Develop leaders at every level
When growth stalls, performance suffers. Equip everyone—from leaders to individual contributors—with personalized tools to develop, drive impact, and stay motivated.
Retain top performers
Top talent won’t stay where they don’t feel valued. Give managers insight into their leadership style, tools to align and motivate teams, and guidance to develop employees through internal mobility.
Transform the way you hire, lead and retain top talent.
- Hire top performers that consistently fit with the team.
- Reduce turnover with better hiring, management, and teamwork.
- Give managers behavioral data to elevate your team and motivate their people.
- Improve collaboration and performance through self-awareness.
- Activate the all-in-one talent solution that your people—not just HR—love to use.
- Costly mishires
- High turnover due to stunted growth and poor performance
- Ineffective managers
- Losing top performers
- Productivity suffering
- Disjointed tools with multiple logins
One connected solution to improve hiring, development and retention
Talent challenges are connected, but most HR tools aren’t.
A bad hire slows teams, struggling managers weaken departments, and top talent leaves when unsupported. Talent Optimization Essentials unifies hiring, development, and retention, giving employees and managers the tools they need to succeed—without disconnected systems or guesswork.
The behavioral science that fuels Talent Optimization Essentials
The PI Behavioral and Cognitive Assessments
Measure the top two predictors of on-the-job performance with validated hiring assessments. Then use the results of those assessments for better 1:1s, communication, relationships, and development — personalized to each manager and employee.
How to use
See how those validated behavioral insights is incorporated into your companies daily work, showcasing their value at every stage of the employee lifecycle from hiring to retiring.
70
Years of science
37.5M+
Assessments administered
383
Validity studies completed
Make Stronger Hires With:
PI Hire
PI Hire
Make stronger hires:
Easily identify your job’s Behavioral Target: the typical behaviors needed for success. Use industry benchmarks, model top performers, or customize with your hiring team.
Find the right fit:
Use science backed Behavioral and Cognitive Assessment to look beyond resumes and understand a candidate’s strengths, problem-solving ability, and work style.
Hire top performers:
Sort and compare candidates to the job’s behavioral target you created; then use personalized interview questions to ensure fair, data-driven hiring decisions.
Develop Leaders At Every Level With:PI Perform EssentialsPI Inspire
PI Perform EssentialsPI InspirePersonalize onboarding for success:
Use an automatically generated, tailored onboarding plan in the 1:1 workspace based on each new hire’s behavioral insights, helping them ramp up quickly.
Develop confident and supportive managers:
Empower managers with structured 1:1s, that include behavioral insights and suggested topics to simplify communication, drive action, and build trust.
Support ongoing employee growth:
Personalized coaching guides help managers support employees in ways that truly resonate, while meaningful feedback and kudos foster daily improvement and engagement.
Retain Top Performers With:PI Perform EssentialsPI Inspire
PI Perform EssentialsPI InspireCultivate leadership that inspires:
Help managers understand their strengths and caution areas to better support teams. Use the collaboration workspace to motivate, align, and drive performance.
Foster internal
mobility:
Regularly assess employees’ strengths and explore alternative career paths within your company, ensuring talent is in the right roles for long-term success.
Create a thriving work environment:
Understanding employees’ strengths and communication styles fosters one common language, helping managers proactively prevent conflicts and enhance collaboration.
How We’re Different
The only science-backed platform that can be used daily to optimize talent across the entire employee lifecycle
Science-backed,
business-proven
With over 70 years of behavioral science research, PI delivers insights that predict workplace success with accuracy you can trust—from hiring the right candidates to developing high-performing teams.
Insights that drive real workplace change
PI delivers tailored behavioral guidance that managers actively use every day, embedding valuable people insights into the tools and workflows they already rely on.
Powering success across the employee lifecycle
Most platforms stop at hiring or performance reviews. PI is different. Our scientifically validated assessments fuel decision-making at every stage—helping you hire, develop, and retain top performers, all in one platform.
Expert guidance, every step
of the way
With PI, you’re never on your own. Get built-in support from PI software experts and HR consultants who understand your business. From implementation to long-term strategy, we ensure your plans drive success.
Integrates with the tools you already use, so the work doesn’t have to stop
Integrates with the tools you already use, so the work doesn’t have to stop
Effortlessly connect The Predictive Index to your favorite tools—collaboration platforms, HRIS, ATS, and more. With 97+ integrations, you can keep everything in sync to align your talent strategy with business goals.
Join 10,000+ talent optimized companies making work better every day
We now introduce the concept of self-awareness right at onboarding. We do this so new hires know where their strengths are and where they might have some challenges working with other people.
I wanted to feel with passion and conviction that I had hired the very perfect person. I wanted to prove that a pattern was a significant predictor of sales performance. And with PI, I was able to say just that.
PI has helped make new employees feel welcome and like a part of the team, and to make them feel like their manager does care about them in a really thoughtful way.
PI protects the manager from making a bad hiring decision and protects the individual from poor performance. It has given me a quantifiable and sustainable approach to predict sales performance.
During a recent merger, PI made it easier for us to identify who was the best behavioral fit for each role, which helped remove a lot of the stress and guesswork from the process.
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Frequently asked questions
PI Hire, our hiring solution included in the Talent Optimization Essentials bundle of products, doesn’t replace your hiring process—it enhances it. Integrate with your existing provider and send unlimited, validated hiring assessments to candidates that assess the top two predictors of on-the-job performance. Get a shortlist of your best candidates for each position, and strengthen your interview teams to ask more objective questions, personalized to each candidate. Plus, you can confidently lean on internal talent to fill open roles by seeing how existing employees match with the behavioral needs of the job. With Talent Optimization Essentials you’ll hire more top performers, and reduce turnover by ensuring each candidate is the right fit for the role.
Not at all. Talent Optimization Essentials was built for managers and designed to equip them with simple tools to hire, onboard, engage and develop employees without pulling them out of their daily workflow. Not only do we have integrations with Zoom, Slack, Asana plus many other productivity tools, we have them consolidated in one easy to use location to help streamline their work, reducing administrative overhead.
We set our clients up for success by providing dedicated support and a custom onboarding plan to maximize your investment. Our most successful customers get certified via our paid workshops in addition to leveraging complimentary resources to help you get up and running quickly. We are there every step of the way to ensure your onboarding experience is successful.
End the cycle of bad hires and disengagement
with a science-backed, all-in-one solution.
Talent Optimization Essentials empowers smarter hiring, stronger leaders, and better engagement.