Alva Labs creates digital candidate assessments that help companies worldwide enable more accurate and efficient hiring processes. 

By combining decades of research within organisational psychology with Modern Test Theory and Machine Learning, Alva supports Talent Acquisition Managers and hiring teams to find the right people for their roles.

Alva Labs

Companies often face a dilemma in their hiring strategy: choose between slow, rigid processes or quick, gut-based decisions – both potentially leading to suboptimal outcomes. Even with best practices in place, evaluating multiple candidate data points objectively has remained a challenge – until now.

At Alva, we're revolutionising hiring with **Role Fit**. Built on years of research, Role Fit integrates all hiring data into a single, weighted score, enabling fair and consistent talent decisions at scale.

Join our upcoming webinar featuring Ludvig Wettlén, our Assessment Product Manager and psychologist, who will demonstrate Role Fit and reveal the research behind it.


Introducing Role Fit – the future of hiring decisions

Want to dive into the fascinating world of high-stakes recruitment? Join us for our next episode of How We Hire, where we're going behind the scenes of Sweden's most crucial selection process!

Every year, the Swedish Defence Conscription and Assessment Agency (Plikt- och prövningsverket) faces an extraordinary challenge: conducting over 40,000 assessments that directly impact national security. From police training to military officers, their decisions shape Sweden's protective forces.

We're so happy to welcome John Hermiz, their Chief Psychologist, to share the inside story! As the project leader behind their selection methods and the agency's Swedish Enlistment Battery (I-testet in Swedish), John leads a team of 102 psychologists in this vital mission.

Join our host Linnea Bywall for an in-depth conversation about mechanical assessment methods, the challenges of high-volume hiring, and what it takes to build teams that protect a nation.


Science behind selecting Sweden's protectors

We all know the research: structured, evidence-based hiring methods consistently deliver better outcomes. But as we push the boundaries of what we *can* measure in hiring, fascinating questions emerge about human potential and how we evaluate it.

**Where's the sweet spot between data-driven decisions and information overload? **When does our quest for certainty start working against us?

Join us as Linnéa Bywall sits down with Kajsa Asplund on Friday, January 31st at 13:00.

As our Chief Product Officer at Alva Labs, with a PhD in Talent Management and background as a Licensed Psychologist, Kajsa brings a unique perspective to these complex questions.

In this episode, we'll explore:

💡 The measurement paradox: When knowing more tells us less

💡 The ethics of peering into personality: How far is too far?

💡 Decision paralysis: Is there such thing as too much insight?

💡Keeping it human: How to make data and empathy coexist in hiring

Come join the conversation live! Bring all your questions and get ready for a fascinating discussion about the future of hiring.


The measurement paradox – with Kajsa Asplund 

**About the episode**

Together with renowned talent acquisition expert, sought-after speaker and consultant and bestselling author Katrina Collier we'll uncover how to:

💡Transform recruitment alignment meetings from frustrating to effective

💡 Implement practical strategies to earn hiring managers' respect and commitment

💡 Communicate in the language of business to achieve real results within your organisation

Katrina will share her no-nonsense insights and proven tactics for revolutionising the most critical yet often overlooked part of the hiring process. Expect straightforward dialogue, actionable solutions, and strategies you can apply immediately.


Fair hiring through science and empathy – with Katrina Collier

**About the episode**

In this first episode, we’ll dive deep into the theme of “How to identify, hire, and grow leaders for tomorrow,” focusing on:

💡 New ways to identify and nurture future leaders

💡 Balancing cultural fit with cultural add

💡 Ensuring diverse representation in leadership roles

Chris will share his personal insights and practical advice on leveraging technology and building high-performing cultures to prepare leaders for tomorrow’s challenges.


Leaders for tomorrow – with Chris Hovde

Teams with high learning agility are 1.5 times more likely to respond effectively to unpredictable circumstances and enjoy 25% more innovation. In the new world of work—where the one constant is change—organisations that want to stay relevant must redefine what they look for in talent. 

Hiring based on what worked yesterday won’t cut it anymore. Not if you want to survive as a business. Not if you want to navigate uncertainties and solve problems on the fly. Instead, you need to hire people that can adapt, learn fast, and tolerate uncertainty. People who demonstrate flexibility and agility to adapt their behaviours as situations change. You need agile learners on your team. 

The only problem is, not everybody has learning agility. So how do you find these mission-critical gems?

In this webinar, we will unpack why learning agility is the number one skill you should focus on and provide you with the keys for spotting and developing agile learners effectively.

**What you will learn about:**

✅ The psychology behind learning agility

✅The foundation of an agile learning mindset

✅ How to measure learning agility in your hiring process

✅ How to create a flexible, mobile, and resilient workforce 

\*This webinar will be held in English🇬🇧


How to hire agile learners and future-proof your talent

Every TA manager’s nightmare begins like this: You write a job ad. Go through the screening process. Source, and pick a handful of candidates. Send them to the Hiring Manager to assess. Only to discover that the hiring team isn’t aligned on who to hire. You’re back to square one, having wasted precious time and money.

In a fast-changing job market, alignment and collaboration are crucial to running an efficient, scalable hiring process- one that ultimately leads to making the right hire.

In this webinar, we dive into the tactics of fostering a powerful collaboration between the TA function and Hiring Managers. 

**Learn how to:**

✅ Conduct a thorough job analysis with the Hiring Manager

✅ Map out the end-to-end hiring process 

✅ Make early funnel decisions

✅ Assess for readiness with the right candidate evaluation methods

\*This webinar will be held in English🇬🇧


How to align your TA goals with the hiring manager's expectations

Would you hire all your classmates because they graduated with you? Probably not. Not all of them work well under pressure or in a team. Some are bad at collaborating. Others communicate poorly or are stuck in their ways and can’t handle change. 

There’s so much more to people than their piece-of-paper credentials. So why do we still confine the talent concept to a small box? And how does the Big Five Personality Test broaden the concept of talent and help you predict things you may not yet know the candidate can do?

In this webinar, we will dive deep into the world of the Big Five Personality Test, and explain why this personality test is key for predicting job success, as well as how to apply this to your hiring process effectively.

Learn about:

✅ What the Five-Factor Personality Model is

✅ What the best predictor of job performance is

✅ Why it's crucial to go with scientifically validated Big Five tests 

✅ How to apply the Big Five Personality to your existing workflow

*This webinar will be held in English.*


How to use the Big Five Personality Test to predict job success

There's nothing more frustrating than having your favourite candidate drop out of the application because of an inefficient hiring process. Yet over 70% of candidates do so because the process takes too long or because there are too many loopholes to jump through. To keep your top candidates engaged, you must provide an exceptional candidate experience through a seamless, transparent process. Nothing less.

In this webinar, we will demystify the candidate experience as a fluffy concept and provide a practical step-by-step framework for ensuring your hiring process does what it's meant to—close your top candidates. 

**Learn how to:**

✅ Diagnose where in the funnel you are losing candidates

✅ How to fix leaks in your hiring process

✅ Tips and tricks on making your job process more efficient and effective

✅ Avoid losing your candidates before they start their application

\*This webinar will be held in English \*🇬🇧


How to make candidates love your hiring process

Organisations often struggle to identify their next leaders, and for good reason. When you don’t know what the future holds, how do you understand who has- or can obtain- the right strengths to help meet those challenges? Who has the potential to give you the best return on your growth efforts?

Faced with these challenges, companies typically look for people with a past track record of leadership or who have smashed their performance targets. But past performance doesn’t tell you who can accomplish things they haven’t done before. It doesn’t help spot high-potentials earlier in their careers, either.

To tackle this problem, we are hosting an exclusive webinar with our speaker, People Science Lead at Alva Labs, **Kajsa Asplund**, who helped develop a model for predicting leadership potential grounded in observable, measurable behaviours.

**Learn how to:**

✅ Spot the psychological markers of great leaders

✅ Assess behaviours that characterise great leadership potential

✅ Fill your leadership pipeline with the right talent

\*This webinar will be held in English \*🇬🇧


How to assess high-potential talent for leadership roles

In this webinar, we are joined by Siri Sandholt, an experienced HR director and public speaker with over twenty years of experience building collaborative organisations across brands like Telenor, Coop, and Cisco. Siri’s skilled at helping companies transition into forward-leaning, strategic HR partners and comes with a wealth of tips and tricks on how to build your organisation for the future.

## Whether you’re looking to transform your talent acquisition strategy or future-proof your hiring process, this webinar will help you:

✅ Understand why skills-based hiring is the solution to all your problems

✅ How to hire for competence-even if the skills you hire for today aren’t there tomorrow

✅ Gain a deeper understanding of what a successful, enduring hiring strategy looks like

 🇬🇧 This webinar will be held in English.
