Hiring Assessments

Why Use Hiring Assessments? The ProfileXT™

There are many reasons...

• Most hiring decisions are made in haste - during the first five minutes of an interview
• Ninety-five of 100 applicants will "exaggerate" to get a job
• Two of three new hires will disappoint in the first year
• Two of three employees would rather work somewhere else
• One in three businesses will be sued this year over an employment issue
• Turnover costs thousands of dollars for every departing employee
• Eighty percent of employee turnover is avoidable
   

Assessments offer solutions – The Best Assessment (PXT) offers the best solution!

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.

Most assessments provide only partial insight –

PXT™ reveals the "whole person":  Thinking Style – Behavioral Traits – Occupational Interests.

PXT™ can be used to determine "workforce compatibility" for Superiors, Peers, Subordinates.

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. These failures can be reduced!

The missing, essential ingredient for making "people decisions" is now available – PXT™

Predictive assessments are essential to employers who want top performers!

Recruit and retain "Fish to Swim and Rabbits to Run"

• JOB Match - the right people into jobs;
• Training based on Thinking Styles and Occupational Interests
• Promote people into positions where they will succeed and contribute
• Increase effectiveness of managers
   

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.

Effective use of Assessments significantly improves organizational performance.

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."

The ProfileXT™ integrated assessments employ cutting-edge technology and empirical data to assess the qualities of "The Total Person." Iindividual qualities of candidates are compared to the qualities of employees who performing their duties in a superior manner (Benchmarks). PXT™ assessments successfully identify potentially excellent employees better than 75% of the time.

Job Match outranks all other factors

A Harvard Business Review study 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 – the ProfileXT™. Assessments

 

 

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