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Why Use Assessments?
Whether your company currently manages 10 employees or 10,000 employees, you will benefit from using assessments.
Whether you hire only a few people each year, or hundreds per month, you will benefit from using assessments.
Essentially, assessments help organizations to make better hiring decisions, quickly and inexpensively. From pre-screening, hiring and promoting, to coaching, succession and "star cloning", assessments are cost-effective, time saving tools that will help your company ensure employees are truly suited to their jobs.
Hire the right people
the first time round! Did you know that most hiring decisions are made in haste? Often within the first five minutes of an interview! It's no surprise then that, on average, two out of three new hires disappoint within the first year.
In practice, resumes, references and interviews alone have provided insufficient information for consistently selecting good employees. They also make for a very time consuming hiring process. Furthermore, candidates often make false claims of education and experience and naturally omit information that would help employers make more informed hiring decisions.
Assessments can help you to effectively discover what is below the 'tip of the iceberg' and quickly highlight the most suitable candidates. This helps to ensure your interview time is spent with pre-qualified individuals. Assessments can also help you to objectively differentiate between similar candidates, obtain a deeper understanding of cultural fit, and see how closely candidate profiles align with those of your top performers!
(see also Step One Survey)
Reduce employee turnover
by putting the right people in the right jobs! This means ensuring the person you hire can do the job, will do the job and wants to do the job.
Did you know that, on average, two out three employees would rather work somewhere else? Turnover costs thousands of dollars for every departing employee, yet 80% of turnover is avoidable. Unfortunately, many employers have accepted high turnover as a business reality, and continue to perpetuate ineffective hiring methods. Assessments allow you to make hiring decisions based more on information, and less on gut.
Improve employee productivity
and reduce absenteeism! It's no secret that employees who are happy in their job and actively engaged are highly productive. Again, it is about putting the right people in the right jobs.
Did you know that absenteeism costs employers over $750 per employee annually? This figure, as reported by USA Today, does not even include the cost of hiring others or paying overtime to perform the work of absent employees!
Identify reliable, honest people
who will treat your company - and your customers - with integrity! It is important to remember that dishonesty is the foundation of many other problems including workplace theft and customer dissatisfaction.
Profiles International incorporates scientifically proven honesty assessment reporting. This critical trait is otherwise impossible to measure with traditional interview and referencing methods. Did you know that in a survey of recent college graduates, 95% said they would be willing to make a false statement in their resumes in order to get a job. Forty-one percent admitted they had already done so. (Source: Nation's Business) Would you want any of these candidates working for you? Do you want to be able to identify them?
Empower your managers
to successfully and appropriately motivate and promote employees! While placing the right people in the right jobs is important, so is understanding how they work and what motivates them. What type of training, coaching, mentoring, etc. is each employee most likely to respond to?
One of the biggest mistakes that companies make with employee development is taking a "one size fits all" approach. If a manager does not understand what kind of support a particular employee requires, it is difficult for the manager to implement a successful growth plan.
Increase sales
by identifying - and replicating – your top salespeople! Matching profiled characteristics of the 'best of the best' in *any* department is the most effective way to gain insight to a candidate's potential. It's that simple.
Mitigate risk
by using objective, documented assessment tools! Assessments from Profiles International have passed federal Department of Labor standards. As such, our assessments provide solid documentation that your company upholds age, gender and race neutral hiring practices.
Did you know that one out of every three business will be sued this year over an employment issue? Properly implemented assessment programs can help to mitigate this risk by reducing the number of troublesome and unproductive employees.
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