Wave Connect: one talent platform, hire to promote

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Promotions on opinion

When the evidence from hiring is filed away, promotion comes down to who a manager rates. The people who present well move up, and the ones who would have led well are passed over.

Development aimed blind

Without a shared read on how each person works, development budget follows seniority or whoever asks loudest. It goes to the same few people, and the gaps that hold teams back stay open.

Talent you never spotted

Capable people nobody noticed get tired of waiting and leave. Then you pay to hire from outside for a role someone already inside the business could have filled.

Decisions you can't explain

Different criteria at each stage means that when a hire or a promotion is challenged, there is no single standard to point to. That is a hard place to stand in front of a regulator, a tribunal or your own board.

Wave Connect for hiring

Build the success profile, assess every candidate against it and get a scored shortlist with a targeted interview guide. An AI cheating safeguard on aptitude tests is included at no extra cost.

Hire against one standard

Wave Connect Develop

One short assessment, then insight that keeps working. It reaches every employee rather than a selected few, and it shows up inside the AI assistants your people already have open.

Develop for everyone

See who's ready to step up

For Mobility, Wave Connect Develop gives talent leaders a view of capability across the whole organization: who is close to ready, where leadership risks sit and where the gaps are. More mobility capability is coming to Wave Connect.

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1 in 5 to 1 in 50

Hire with fewer costly mistakes

Wave Connect Hire reduces the odds of a serious hiring mistake from 1 in 5 to 1 in 50. Every candidate gets a Success Indicator against the profile you agreed, with a predictive recommendation on whether to progress them.

Source: Saville validity research (Project Epsom)

4x

Develop with four times the impact

Wave's development impact is about four times that of the average tool. One short assessment gives every employee and manager insight they can act on, not a report that sits in a drawer.

Source: Saville ROI model estimate

27 out of 30

Keep the insight working

When you run both, we can connect hiring insight to development on request, and the AI plugin puts it inside the AI assistants your people already use. The science underneath is independently rated 27 out of 30.

Source: British Psychological Society test review of Wave

One shared language

The same terms from interview to promotion.

Nothing new to learn

Results read plainly, with no specialist needed.

Fairer decisions

Everyone measured against criteria agreed up front.

Integrity included

An AI cheating safeguard at no extra cost.

Fits your systems

People and reporting lines from your HR system.

Your HR system

People and reporting lines come through from your HR system, so team and department views build themselves and nobody maintains a second list of employees.

Your applicant tracking system

Run hiring from the applicant tracking system you already use, with results flowing back to where your recruiters work.

Insight in the AI tools they already use

Wave Connect Develop brings each person's insight into the AI assistants your people already have open. If your learning platform connects to the same assistant, the two work side by side.

The platform keeps growing, with more mobility capability on the way, so what you set up today does more for you over time.

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Questions buyers ask

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What is Wave Connect?

Wave Connect is Saville Assessment's talent platform. It runs hiring and development on one behavioral science, so candidates and employees are measured against the same standard, and recruiters, managers and employees can read the results without a specialist.

What is the difference between Wave Connect Hire and Wave Connect Develop?

Wave Connect Hire is for choosing people: a success profile, a scored shortlist and a targeted interview guide. Wave Connect Develop is for growing them: one short assessment, then insight inside the AI assistants people already use. Both run on the same platform and the same science.

Do we have to use both?

No. Most organizations start with one, usually hiring or development, and add the other when it makes sense. When you run both, we can connect your hiring and development data on request, so what you learned about someone at hiring is there once they join.

Does Wave Connect cover internal mobility and succession?

Wave Connect Develop shows talent leaders who is close to ready across the organization. Beyond the platform, the Leadership Potential Dashboard shows potential across your whole population at any level, and our mobility solutions cover succession, high-potential talent and internal moves. More mobility capability is coming to Wave Connect.

Does Wave Connect connect to our HR system and applicant tracking system?

Yes. People and reporting lines come through from your HR system, and hiring can run from the applicant tracking system you already use. The integrations page lists the systems we connect to.

How does Wave Connect handle AI cheating in assessments?

An AI cheating safeguard on aptitude tests flags unusual response patterns so a candidate can be retested, and it is included at no extra cost. Scoring is psychometric, so no AI evaluates candidate ability. For high-stakes or regulated volume, remote supervision is available as an add-on.

See Wave Connect on a live role

Send us a job description before the call and we'll build its success profile live, then show you development insight.

Every hire, promotion and strategic people move, on one standard

Follow one person from the shortlist to their first year, and see how the insight travels with them

What happens when every talent decision runs on a different tool