What is an assessment?
Assessments give you more complete information for matching the person with the job. Historically, employers have depended upon resumes, references and interviews as sources of information for making hiring decisions. In practice, these sources have proved inadequate for consistently selecting good employees.
Several factors contribute to the failure of traditional hiring methods. Resumes 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."
Assessments are used to prevent "promotion mistakes". 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.
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Who uses these Selection and Development tools?
The use of assessments has become essential to employers who
The use of assessments has resulted in extraordinary increases in productivity while reducing employee related problems, employee turnover, stress, tension, conflict and overall human resources expenses.
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What employee related problems are more commonly addressed?
Employers tell us they are most concerned with cloning their top performers and making them better mentors. We use assessments to capture the thinking and reasoning styles, along with their occupational interests and behavioral traits of these top managers, sellers, customer service reps etc. By profiling their most productive people our client companies capture those factors relevant to selecting the best people to fit the requirements of specific jobs.
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Aren't assessments better suited for big companies?
Actually, assessments can play a greater role in smaller companies where the impact of one individual is more significant. When a person under performs in a smaller group, others rarely have the time to fill the void. Tension develops. Business suffers. Especially in an under-staffed environment, assessments provide vital information necessary to avoid hiring mistakes.
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We're not hiring! Why should we consider assessments?
Most companies have been hurt by the slow economy; and few are hiring. But a lot can be done in preparation for better conditions. That's why it is especially important right now to assess the long-term skills your business will need to grow once the recovery occurs.
We can show you how to measure the skill sets and characteristics of your top performers. We will capture the traits, interests, and abilities of your best people. The pattern they establish can be used as a model for your hiring decisions. You will hire more productive people when they have the same characteristics of proven performers. Better talent, better profits.
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How can I learn more about the source of your assessment and development tools?
