Teamscope is a management insights tool that lets you explore and understand the science behind high-performing teams and make smarter hiring decisions.
Hey Hunters!
I am Alo, the co-founder and CEO of Teamscope, and I’m really looking forward to your feedback on our product beta.
We have been working with leading executive search firms and behavioral scientists over the past two years to bring to market our talent analytics platform Teamscope. Our algorithm relies on big data analytics to profile the existing team and to help the team leader make an unbiased, data-driven hiring decision.
It takes only 10 minutes to get started:
- Take a couple of short tests and/or connect your social media to get your personal profile showing your core values and main strengths when working in a team;
- Invite your team to join to create your team profile and find out what characteristics you should look for in a candidate;
- Invite candidates to evaluate how they fit in with your culture and how they would complement your team.
We are still in beta, so apologies if some parts of the UX/UI are still confusing, but I wanted to get really early feedback from the PH community, I am sure your feedback will help us a lot.
Let’s chat below,
Alo
@aloarro Hi Alo, really interesting work here - what role do you think it will play in teams who are actively trying to improve diversity? i.e. trying to add to/expand their current culture?
@abadesi great question. Actually, the algorithm is designed to point out the gaps in your team composition and will advise you to look for candidates that can fill in those gaps. To simplify - the algorithm will look for similarity in values (that will help with team cohesion, goal setting, team motivation), and diversity in (almost) every other dimension (that will help create the necessary creative tension). Did that clarify a bit?
@aloarro Hi Alo! Exceptional idea!
I was playing around with Teamscope (on Safari) and when I wanted to add a team member, I wasn't able to find the invite new member button. Tried on Chrome, and the button was there.
Long story short: there's a bug on Safari (last version, macOS) that doesn't display the button until there's a page resize or something similar. (I guess it's caused by a CSS property related to the .talentpool-footer CSS class if it helps!)
Cheers and keep up the good work!
I understand that you are using in addition to standard tests also social media information for evaluate candidates. Can you elaborate in simple language how you can use the social media and AI to outperform the standard tests?
@risto_rossar great question. We rely on mypersonality.org research and IBM Watson AI to make sense of the social data. For active social media users it's just a quick way to reduce the time it takes to create their profile, and normally the results are as accurate as test results. But that's optional - users can always skip the social connection and just take a couple of tests.
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Teamscope helps to solve a key question for growing companies: out of a number of candidates for a position, who would fit best in our team?
Pros:
Easy to use and navigate, a great tool for team managers
Cons:
People could interpret the questions different, tilting the results.
Thanks for the review Oliver, glad to hear we were able to help a bit with the toughest decision for any manager
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Love the simplicity so far and will test it out in our hiring process. I was unable to connect Twitter or LinkedIn—just kept processing after I authorized for 5+ minutes before I closed the window. Facebook was quick. Is there a bug or issue with Chrome? Any other reports or am I just bad at authorizing apps?
@shamusr many thanks for taking the time to check out the app. I would love to get your feedback when you have had a chance to test with one of your teams, that be really helpful. And we'll check what went wrong with Twitter/Linkedin immediately - there's probably a bug, but we'll fix it immediately. Let me know if I can help with anything else.
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I find the results a very accurate description of my professional motivation.
Pros:
Really simple to use UI and great insights into your professional personality, based on social media and personality questionnaires.
Cons:
For non-native English speakers, it would be good to have some explanations in the quizzes.
Thank you for the really helpful feedback Georg. Glad to hear the results are accurate and you are right that we have to simplify a bit for non-native speakers, already working on it.
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Based on individual test results it would be very interesting for user to get insights in to what rolls/teams other users with similar profiles are in.
Pros:
Allows team leaders to analyse existing dynamics within the team and makes suggestions on ways to improve.
Thanks for the feedback, Mikk. I see the idea of proposing team roles / functions to users has already come up twice from you and Noemi, so I guess we have to get it done :) Thanks
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I am part of the Enhancv team and we are currently working with TeamScope. It help us get our teams better, be more efficient and think deeply about our hiring process.
Pros:
Teamscope.io is efficient, friendly and easy to use platform. It brings a lot of insights for yourself and for the people around you.
Cons:
The best way that TeamScope might improve is by providing more detailed analyse when the personal profiles are finished.
Thank you for the great review Denitsa - glad to hear that teams are getting value from the analysis and we'll improve on the personal feedback as well to provide users more insight to their own workplace values and personality.
Teamscope helps to solve a key question for growing companies: out of a number of candidates for a position, who would fit best in our team?
Pros:Easy to use and navigate, a great tool for team managers
Cons:People could interpret the questions different, tilting the results.
I find the results a very accurate description of my professional motivation.
Pros:Really simple to use UI and great insights into your professional personality, based on social media and personality questionnaires.
Cons:For non-native English speakers, it would be good to have some explanations in the quizzes.
Based on individual test results it would be very interesting for user to get insights in to what rolls/teams other users with similar profiles are in.
Pros:Allows team leaders to analyse existing dynamics within the team and makes suggestions on ways to improve.
Cons:Only in English
I am part of the Enhancv team and we are currently working with TeamScope. It help us get our teams better, be more efficient and think deeply about our hiring process.
Pros:Teamscope.io is efficient, friendly and easy to use platform. It brings a lot of insights for yourself and for the people around you.
Cons:The best way that TeamScope might improve is by providing more detailed analyse when the personal profiles are finished.