How to Read the Culture-Fit Report

The Culture-Fit Report provides a structured way to evaluate how candidates align with your organization’s culture and where they may introduce new strengths. Interpreting these results effectively helps you make more informed hiring decisions.

Understanding the Different Score Levels

Overall Scores

Provides a high-level view of how a candidate compares to your Culture Profile.

CultureMatch: reflects overall alignment with your existing culture
CultureAdd: reflects the potential to introduce new perspectives

How to use it: Provides a quick way to assess alignment and compare candidates at a glance.

Category Scores

Measures alignment across the 8 specific cultural categories (eg. Innovation, Performance)

How to use it: Helps identify where a candidate aligns strongly and where differences may exist across key cultural areas.

CultureMatch (pink): areas where the candidate aligns closely with your culture
CultureAdd (blue): areas where the candidate brings different perspectives

Value-Level Insights

Compare a candidate’s preferences directly to your organization’s culture across all 40 workplace values. Your organization’s top values are highlighted in pink.

How to use it: Offers a deeper view of how a candidate aligns with what matters most to your organization. Look for where they strongly match your top values and where they may differ.

Interpreting CultureMatch and CultureAdd

♦ CultureMatch ♦

CultureMatch shows how closely a candidate aligns with your existing culture.

Best practice: Higher CultureMatch scores indicate stronger alignment. As a general guideline, scores of 60% or greater are considered a strong match to your organization’s culture.

When to prioritize it:

When maintaining a strong, established culture is important
When new hires need to integrate quickly
When consistency across teams is a priority

♦ CultureAdd ♦

CultureAdd highlights where a candidate brings differences that can strengthen your organization.

Best practice: Candidates with notable CultureAdd may introduce new perspectives, values, or ways of thinking that complement your existing culture.

When to prioritize it:

When encouraging innovation or new ideas
When evolving or strengthening your culture
When building more diverse and balanced teams

The strongest hiring decisions consider both. Balance CultureMatch (alignment) with CultureAdd (growth) to build teams that are both cohesive and adaptable.

Using Scores in Different Hiring Scenarios

Different roles and hiring needs may influence how you interpret Culture-Fit results.

High-Volume Hiring

Use Overall Scores to quickly screen candidates
Prioritize CultureMatch for roles requiring fast integration
Use CultureAdd selectively to identify standout candidates

Targeted or Strategic Hiring

Focus on Category Scores to assess alignment in key cultural areas
Use Value-level insights to evaluate alignment with critical values
Balance CultureMatch and CultureAdd based on team needs

Evolving or Transforming Culture

Place greater emphasis on CultureAdd
Identify candidates who align with future or aspirational values
Use differences as a way to support cultural growth