Cream.hr Offers to Find Mars One the Perfect Martian

WATERLOO, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 07/23/13 — With only forty positions available and an estimated more than 78,000 applicants for the job, the Mars One team are facing a difficult challenge: find the perfect candidates for what is being called a -suicide mission- to Mars. Waterloo-based HR start-up believes it has the answer. It is offering up its online behavioral assessment solution to the Mars One team — for free – allowing it to cut through the hordes of earthlings to find the perfect candidates to go, well, where no TV show has gone before.

The $6 billion Mars One project is the brainchild of Dutch entrepreneur Bas Landorp. Since the call for astronaut applicants was issued in April 2013, the project has been inundated with applicants eager to secure one of the coveted spots available for the one-way mission. With 78,000 applications received in just two weeks Mars One CEO Landorp announced earlier this month the project is on track to meet its goal of half a million applicants. But a large question remains: how will the project select the perfect candidates?

“Based on a video submission, and even a more extensive interview process, how can the Mars One team really screen out those that -won-t have what it takes?” asks . MacGregor believes her company-s solution offers up the key to finding the top 15% of candidates for the Mars mission. “Multitudes of factors need to be considered by the selection committee. For instance, who can withstand the unknown pressures of extraterrestrial colonization? How can desires to return back to Earth be eradicated? How should age and health be gauged? Will the applicants be looking for relationships to burgeon (it is reality TV)? And most important of all –will the chosen be the same people in ten years?” asks MacGregor.

Studies have shown that the best predictor of determining long-term behavioral characteristics is using an assessment such as that offered up by Cream.hr.

“The key characteristics of an astronaut align well to the -Big Five- personality traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness as determined by more than 50 years of psychological research. Every single person possesses some degree of these characteristics – the secret is in matching up each individual-s unique -mix- of personality traits with the characteristics required for a Mars One team member,” says . “This is a difficult task at the best of times and the Mars One team face a monumental challenge in their screening process based on the sheer volume of applications they are receiving. Without sophisticated, automated screening methods it could take the team an entire decade to find and assemble the perfect team.”

Cream.hr, a Waterloo, Ontario-based Communitech Hyperdrive graduate, has created a unique behavioral, science based, unfake-able assessment. The Cream.hr system tests candidates accurately and efficiently; identifying intelligence, prioritizations and behavioral characteristics of its applicants, just like those needed for the Mars One project.

Cream.hr is now offering Mars One the use of its solution to screen through the unlimited applicants, to generate a solid behavioral based short list of candidates.

“Mars One has a huge job ahead of them, narrowing millions to a select few,” says MacGregor. “When we realized the candidate selection needs of this mission perfectly align to what we do best, we were proverbially over the moon. We have written to Mars One team and have offered up unlimited use of our software for free. We-re hopeful we-ll hear back from them very soon.”

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