Question 1

How do you measure whether an applicant fits your company culture?

Accepted Answer

By capturing your culture first, then comparing. In CultureMatch you answer an intake about values, leadership, communication and way of working; that becomes your culture profile. Every applicant then fills in a culture fit questionnaire — with no right or wrong answers. For each candidate you get a match report that shows where it clicks and where to dig deeper in the interview.

Question 2

Am I allowed to use AI when evaluating job applicants?

Accepted Answer

Yes, as long as you do it carefully. The EU AI Act classifies AI in recruitment as a high-risk application; enforcement of those rules starts on 2 August 2026. The core requirements: human oversight and transparency. That's exactly how CultureMatch is built — AI scores are advice, never the decision. You evaluate, you decide, and candidates know where they stand.

Question 3

Isn't hiring for culture fit just bias?

Accepted Answer

If anything, the opposite: well-measured culture fit reduces bias. Gut feeling — 'this person just clicks' — is the biggest source of prejudice in hiring. A structured questionnaire with no right or wrong answers compares everyone the same way. And beyond culture fit, consider culture add: someone who brings what you're still missing. CultureMatch shows you both; the decision stays with you.

Question 4

What does a bad hire cost?

Accepted Answer

More than you think. US research puts the average cost of a single bad hire at $14,900. In the Netherlands, recruiting alone costs an average of €4,494 per hire — before day one. And it takes an average of 10 weeks before a mismatch even becomes clear. That's why it pays to measure culture fit before you sign. It's exactly what CultureMatch is built for.

Question 5

What is a culture handbook?

Accepted Answer

A culture handbook captures what makes your company your company: your values, how people communicate, how decisions get made and how you work. Unlike a personnel handbook — which covers rules and policy — it describes what working together actually feels like at your company. In CultureMatch, AI generates the handbook from your intake answers, as a living document you update whenever your culture changes.

Question 6

How do I map our company culture without hiring consultants?

Accepted Answer

These days you can simply do it yourself. You fill in an intake about your values, leadership, communication and way of working. CultureMatch generates your first culture chapter from it in minutes — no workshops, no consultants, no implementation project. The result is a living culture handbook you share with your team and use for every new vacancy.

What you're comparing	Questionnaire tool	CultureMatch
What you get	Questionnaire toolA score per candidate	CultureMatchA living culture handbook plus a score per candidate
Where it starts	Questionnaire toolWith the test — culture is an afterthought	CultureMatchWith your culture: capture first, then measure
Where it comes from	Questionnaire toolUS tooling, English-only questions	CultureMatchBuilt in the Netherlands, data stored in the EU, fully available in Dutch
The numbers	Questionnaire toolBig shiny percentages, no sources	CultureMatchHonest numbers, sources included

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