Executive Recruitment

Leadership Assessments

Executive Recruitment Assessments: Selecting Leaders Who Shape the Future

The stakes are highest at the executive level. Hiring or promoting the wrong leader can have lasting consequences for strategy, culture, and performance. Today’s organizations need executives who can inspire teams, navigate disruption, and deliver results in uncertain conditions.

Fitt’s Executive Recruitment Assessments are designed to give organizations confidence in leadership appointments by stress-testing candidates in the areas that matter most: vision, judgment, adaptability, and ethical decision-making.

Why Executive Recruitment is Different

Unlike other hires, executives operate at the intersection of complexity and influence. They face ambiguous challenges with incomplete information while managing stakeholders across the business and beyond. The right assessment therefore must evaluate:

Strategic foresight and decision-making under pressure.
Ability to lead change while inspiring confidence.
Resilience and adaptability in times of disruption.
Capacity to balance innovation, commercial results, and ethical leadership.

Recruitment assessments are built to predict not just immediate performance, but long-term leadership impact.

What the Assessment Measures

All Fitt executive-level recruitment assessments measure the full set of 28 Fitt competencies, covering:

Leadership Competencies: Driving innovation, commercial acumen, influencing, empowering others.
Forward-Looking Competencies: Leading change, strategic forecasting, managing ambiguity, digital readiness.
Core & Enabling Competencies: Ensuring collaboration, decision-making, working under pressure, and delivering results.

Recruitment assessments also integrate:

Simulations that replicate executive-level challenges.
Work styles and team roles to understand leadership dynamics.
Career preferences and motivators to gauge cultural and organizational fit.

Tier Options for Executive Recruitment

Executives can be assessed across all Fitt tiers, depending on the depth of insight and the criticality of the role:

Fitt+ – Fast, scalable recruitment solution for benchmarking leadership potential.
Fitt Premium – Adds developmental notes and psychologist oversight for richer insights.
Fitt TDC (Talent Development Centre) – Includes blended simulations and group exercises for higher predictive validity.
Fitt Peak – The most immersive and reliable solution for C-suite roles: multi-day simulations, psychologist-led analysis, and tailored feedback.

Each tier balances cost, reliability, time, and intensity, so organizations can select the right approach for their most important appointments.

Outcomes for Organizations

By using Fitt’s Executive Recruitment Assessments, organizations gain:

Confidence in selection decisions for critical leadership roles.
Data-backed insights to compare candidates objectively.
Validation of cultural fit and leadership style.
Stress-tested evaluations through multi-method simulations and exercises.

Reducing Risk, Increasing Certainty

Executive appointments can define an organization’s trajectory for years to come. With Fitt’s rigorous, multi-method approach, you can be certain that the leaders you select have the vision, resilience, and capability to deliver in complex, high-stakes contexts.

Make every leadership appointment count. Explore Fitt’s Executive Recruitment Assessments and secure leaders who can shape the future of your organization.