Senior Associate, Talent Assessment

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Associate, Talent Assessment

As a Talent Assessment team member, you’ll work closely with Talent Acquisition partners and other I/O Psychologists to design and deliver innovative selection strategies to support our shared business goals. With an emphasis on quantitative and qualitative analysis, you’ll support the design, validation, and implementation of assessment tools and processes to help ensure Capital One secures outstanding and diverse talent across our enterprise.

Our ideal candidate will display a strong balance of analytical and problem solving skills, business consulting, and communication competencies as well as the ability to work in a dynamic team environment. You’ll be on a team of employee selection subject matter experts and will design, conduct, and document analyses (e.g., adverse impact metrics; sampling plans; validation studies) supporting projects with enterprise-wide impact and specific to lines of business as well.

You’ll have the opportunity to consult with Talent Acquisition and other HR partners on selection projects, process improvements, reporting and analysis tools, and other initiatives focused on improving the candidate experience and enabling best practices in the pre-employment assessment space.

As a Talent Assessment team member, your main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Communicating results of statistical analyses, along with their implications, to technical and non-technical audiences
• Developing and maintaining large data sets for analyses on various selection and assessment programs
• Serving as an analyst for selection tool evaluation and reporting, including business impact analyses for selection solutions and programs
• Participating in the design, development, validation, testing, and implementation of practical, effective, defensible, and candidate-friendly products and selection tools and processes

Successful team members demonstrate competencies in these areas:

• Results focus: Drives for results and achieves important goals applying strong organizational skills and detail orientation
• Execution: Develop and test hypotheses, design solutions, assess operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts, and develop plans and tools for monitoring outcomes
• Business communication: Impeccable written and oral communication skills, including strong visualization skills (i.e., able to “tell the story” and highlight key insights in a clear and concise manner that is easily understood by stakeholders at all levels across the organization and with varying levels of technical savvy).
• Strategic & Analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation.
• Partnership: Collaborate with colleagues across Capital One including: HR, Technology, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive candidate experience improvements and business results.
• Analysis: Identify opportunities for improvement and use data to make strategic and tactical recommendations

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree
• At least 1 year of employee selection and assessment work experience
• At least 1 year of experience in consulting with external or internal clients across a variety of seniority levels and technical experience
• At least 1 year of data analysis experience conducting analyses, and building statistical models in R, Python, or SQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge of advanced statistical methodologies, including regression, longitudinal analysis, or Bayesian modeling
• Proficiency in using Google Suite
• 2+ years of employee selection experience
• PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or other technical or quantitative discipline, including but not limited to Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry or Statistics
• Knowledge of a variety of employee assessments and methods

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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