About
Why we built Keelworth.
Most hiring still runs on a resume and an interview. Both tell you something real, and both leave out how a person actually works once the job starts.
Keelworth was built by people who spend their working lives on exactly that question. One side of the practice comes from clinical psychotherapy, reading how people think and act. The other comes from HR leadership, where the work is to hire people and then live with how those hires turn out.
So we built a plain, descriptive read on work style, the kind of signal that is hard to get from a conversation, and made it quick and cheap enough for a small employer to use across a whole shortlist. It does not replace the interview or the reference check. It gives you one more honest input before the offer.
Our founder
Nosson Dubin
LMSW, founder of Keelworth
Keelworth was founded by Nosson Dubin, a psychotherapist with a background in clinical social work. He has also hired and managed his own teams and advised other businesses on their hiring.
Both kinds of work come down to the same thing: reading how a person actually works. In clinical work, that means understanding how someone behaves and what stays consistent about it. In hiring, it runs into a hard limit, because a resume and an interview show very little of how a person will work once the job starts, and the mismatch usually surfaces only after. Keelworth was built to give that read before the offer.
What we believe
How we think a hiring tool should behave.
An aid, never the decision
The report supports your judgment. It is not the hiring decision, and it should not be the sole basis for one.
Descriptive, not predictive
It describes how a person tends to work. It does not claim to predict performance, or to measure skill, intelligence, character, or mental health.
Consistent and transparent
The scoring is fixed, so the same answers always produce the same report. Every candidate is read the same way, by the same logic.
Grounded in real science
The Keelworth model is built on the Five-Factor Model, the most validated framework in personality science, and it keeps sharpening as more candidates complete it.
Live and ready
Keelworth is live and ready to use with the people you are hiring. The instrument keeps sharpening as more candidates complete it. If you put it to work, we would like to hear what you find.
See what it gives you.
Add a candidate and the report is scored and emailed to you automatically. Read a full sample first, or take it yourself to see what comes back.