Case Study: Federal Regulatory Authority achieves higher performance, longer tenure, and increased promotions with Criteria Corp's Workplace Alignment Assessment (WAA)

Federal regulatory authority predicts job performance and career advancement

A major federal regulatory authority that had been using Criteria Corp’s Workplace Alignment Assessment (WAA) for several years wanted to quantify the assessment’s impact on key outcomes — specifically job performance, employee tenure, and career movement — to see whether WAA scores predicted real organizational results.

Criteria Corp compared WAA scores of 251 hired candidates with manager performance ratings, tenure data, and movement descriptors; employees scoring “Above Average” on the WAA received 17% higher performance ratings, stayed 31% longer on average (4.2 vs. 3.2 years), and were five times more likely to be promoted, demonstrating that higher WAA scores reliably predicted better performance and career progression.