• Lower turnover
• Better work ethic
• Lower fringe benefit cost
• Greater Productivity
• Happier employees
• Greater motivation
• More team energy
• Less stress, tension
• Increased PROFITABILITY

• Pre employment screening for Integrity/Work Ethic/Reliability
• Sales Indicator Information and Coaching
• Customer Service Knowledge, Skills, Behaviors, and Training
• Management Development and Coaching
• Personality Tests for Increased Employee Motivation
• Team Analysis
• 360° Degree Feedback for Performance Reviews

In 1998, absenteeism cost employers $757 per employee, according to a report in USA TODAY. This was the direct cost reported by a survey of human resource professionals and does not include the cost of hiring others or paying overtime to perform the work of absent employees.

In the absence of objective data, how can you demonstrate a hiring/promotion decision was made objectively, without discrimination because of gender, race, religion, etc.

In a survey of recent college graduates, 95% said they would be willing to make a false statement in their résumés in order to get a job. Forty-one percent admitted they had already done so, according to a report in Nation's Business (May, 1999).

As reported in Molding Systems (May, 1999, v57 i5 p56(1)), a survey found that 92% of job applicants accept testing as part of the job qualification process. Only 3% resent it, while 5% were neutral.

Historically, employers depend upon résumés, references and interviews as sources of information for making hiring decisions. In practice, these sources have proved inadequate for consistently selecting good employees.
When training employees, a "one size fits all" approach has failed to provide the desired results.
When selecting people for promotion, otherwise excellent employees have too often been miscast into roles they could not perform satisfactorily.
Clearly, an essential ingredient for making "people decisions" has been missing from the formula.

• want to put the right people into jobs;
• provide employees with effective training;
• help their managers to become more effective; and
• promote people into positions where they will succeed.

The use of assessments has resulted in extraordinary increases in productivity while reducing employee relations problems, employee turnover, stress, tension, conflict and overall human resources expenses. Several factors contribute to the failure of traditional hiring methods. Résumés often contain false claims of education and experience while omitting information that would help employers make better hiring decisions. Business references are of little value because most past-employers will tell you nothing but "name, rank and serial number."

These realities are the reason interviews have become the most influential factor in hiring and promotion decisions. However, experience shows only a coincidental correlation between the ability to deliver well in an interview and to deliver well on the job. Studies peg this correlation at 14% -- one good employee in every seven hires. Even background checks don't help much. The success rate becomes 26%, but that's only one good hire in every four. Unfortunately, many employers have accepted these poor results and the high cost of excessive turnover as a business reality. They have flown the white flag of surrender.

Assessments do help significantly. Assessing behavioral traits improved the hiring success rate to 38%. When both thinking abilities and behavioral traits are assessed, the right people are hired 54% of the time. When an assessment of occupational interests is added, successful results improve to 66%.

The most impressive results are achieved, however, when an integrated assessment is used - one that measures behavioral traits, thinking, occupational interests, plus "Job Match." These integrated assessments employ cutting-edge technology and empirical data to assess the qualities of "The Total Person." In doing so, the individual qualities of candidates are compared to the qualities of employees who performing their duties in a superior manner. These 21st Century assessments successfully identify potentially excellent employees better than 75% of the time.

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A well-documented study, published in Harvard Business Review concludes that "Job Match" is by far the most reliable predictor of effectiveness on the job. The study considered many factors including the age, sex, race, education and experience of approximately 300,000 subjects. It evaluated their job performance and found no significant statistical differences, except in the area of "Job Match." The conclusion: "It's not experience that counts or college degrees or other accepted factors; success hinges on a fit with the job."

The only reliable method for evaluating "Job Match" is with a properly designed assessment instrument, capable of measuring the essential job-related characteristics particular to each specific job. Profiles International has assessments designed for this purpose.

More than 35,000 companies rely on our occupational assessments for selection, coaching and maximizing human capital. These companies know that the more you know about your people, the better you can impact your top and bottom lines.
Our Online Assessment Center offers you online assessment capability with instant results in a user-friendly system. We can have you set up, trained today, and assessing tomorrow. In depth face-to-face training is also available.
Companies all over the world have used our resources for sales training and selection, customer service selection and training, and a wide variety of other employee motivation and training programs.

For all the sophistication of today’s businesses, we continue to fail dramatically in the function of getting the right person into the right job. Whether this is a new hire, a promotion, the creation of a project team or the building of a management team. The statistics for North America are dismal. Up to 66% of new hires are a mistake! Obviously we do not make a decision to hire a non-performer, yet fully two thirds of our new hires do not work out for these three reasons:

• Incompetence
• Dishonesty
• Incompatibility

We offer a suite of solutions that can move your new hire success rate from 14% to 75%!

You will dramatically improve the productivity of your existing staff by ensuring that individuals are in jobs that they are not only suited for, but wish to be in. These instruments will guide you in promoting people into positions rewarding to the company and the employee. Build skills and confidence in your management team and establish project teams that will surpass expectations.
Our services are modern, efficient, attractively priced on a per usage basis, and available over the Internet. They evaluate the total person, measuring:

• Thinking and Reasoning
• Occupational Interests
• Behavioral Traits
• Job related Competencies
• Integrity and Reliability
• Work Ethic

Combined with a customized Job Match Pattern the odds of hiring the right person for the job can improve by over 500%!

Our employee assessment tools will help you improve employee retention rates, reduce turnover, and increase employee motivation by matching the right person with the right job. Thanks for visiting us and feel free to contact us anytime. Call and let's work together to improve your greatest asset... your people!