Think of a time when you hired an employee who exceeded your expectations.
Think of when you hired someone who didn’t turn out to be the employee you
expected or hoped for. Download this whitepaper to find out what you can do to ensure you are hiring qualified candidates.
Count this blog post as “Lagniappe” or, as we say in Louisiana, a little something extra. I can think of no other area where Occupational DNA® or ODNA®can play an important role besides employee safety. Yes, we can hire better managers and salespeople who can sell more, and all these are...
There are two basic designs of employee assessment in the industry: fixed-form and adaptive. Today, too many organizations make crucial hiring decisions based on the dicey results of fixed assessments. I can understand why many organizations have lost faith in employee assessments when making...
In the business world, there is a delicate balance between performance and trust. On the one hand, businesses need employees to perform well to stay competitive and achieve goals. On the other hand, high trust is essential for employees and customers to achieve long-term success. Finding the...
Safety Quotient Assessment (SQA) is a tool increasingly used in the workplace to measure an individual's level of safety risk tolerance. It is designed to assess an employee's attitudes, behaviors, and risk tolerance in workplace safety. The SQA is a valuable tool for employers because it can...
A leader in the industrial construction and maintenance field, operating in over 30 US states, with more than 7,000 employees, reduces incident rates by 15%
Making the wrong hiring decision can be incredibly costly. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates the cost of a bad hire can be up to 30% of a first-year salary and up to 50% for managerial roles. When companies are in growth mode, it can be tempting to justify or write off
these costs as...
Since 2011, The Assessment Company® has enjoyed a productive relationship with one of the United States’ leading national chemical manufacturers. One of the farthest-reaching effects the manufacturer’s managers see as a result of its use of PXT Select™ is when an employee fits the job, something...
Credit unions turned to PXT Select™ to create a workforce that grows with its membership. PXT Select™ and worked with their recruiting team to ensure that both incumbents and external candidates had the soft skills needed to succeed at this organization.
The results of this case study should be a wake-up call for the entire healthcare industry. In both RN and CNA positions, early hire failures were reduced by 50%. For the RN group, nurses with a match of 80% or above in their PXT results were all still on the job at the two-year mark!
The more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous our working environments become, the more critical a genuinely agile workforce is to success. Yet, staying agile demands that people develop and use their emotional intelligence (EQ)—a level of sophistication that has never been demanded...
In the increasingly complex and ambiguous world we live in, companies find themselves scrambling to find talent to fill open roles across all levels. There are challenges sourcing, hiring, and retaining top talent. This drastic shift in the labor market has sidetracked proactive efforts to...
Insights into the challenges and opportunities more than 3,000 hiring managers are facing in a year unlike any other, and why the time for organizations to rebuild - better than before - is now.
Today, organizations are providing the workforce with the most advanced safety equipment in the history of modern-day risk management. This novel approach includes renewed processes, procedures, and protocols that are mainly directed toward one goal i.e. safety. Yet, accidents still occur at the...
Wiley has surveyed 3,000 hiring managers to address recruiting, interviewing, selecting, and onboarding. The results, explored in detail in State of Hiring, are clear: what enables organizations to hire the best talent is a consistent, data-driven hiring process—even if that means a complete revamp.
Set against this background, The Assessment Company®, a US based firm, offers employee assessment solutions to help businesses effectively identify, hire, coach, and develop an
effective workforce, and when necessary ensure behavioral safety requirements are met. The company’s uniqueness stems...
Help Your People Work Better Together While Officing Apart
While most of us thought 2020 was going to be “our year,”
everything got derailed when the pandemic struck, sending
people to all corners of their homes in search of a comfortable, functional workspace. Displaced and distracted,...
As the coronavirus crisis creates unprecedented times, it’s critical that companies figure out how to protect and increase revenues—not defaulting to layoffs, containing or cutting costs. Indeed, the ability to grow will separate the leaders from the pack and this is exactly what The Assessment...
Picture yourself smiling and shaking the hand of a new employee on their first day of work. You’re excited because, well, you hired them. This person might be a completely new hire or someone who moved to your team from within the company. Either way, you feel pretty good about them. After all,...
Artificial Intelligence is now wrapping its tentacles around every job field, threatening to squeeze the life out with its mechanical dominance. While some are taking advantage of AI, there is still a large group who are hesitant to place their trust in it.
As children, we blossomed among team settings. When a teacher grouped us into teams, we were excited to conquer the task at hand with our fellow classmates. We gave our very best to earn our place on a sports team, and our teammates often became our best friends. We even took the liberties of...
Thanks to better access to education globally, there are a great many skilled candidates hunting for jobs. At first glance, this is great —there are many qualified people who will likely satisfy your employee needs. However, this abundance of talent poses another problem. With so much choice,...
The forward-focused management approach of 360-degree feedback is indeed powerful. Smart organizations are adopting this approach to allow their employees to have a more objective view of their personal development.
Are employee personality and workplace safety really related in any way? They definitely are –and it’s crucial for organizations to understand the correlation between these variables.
Have you heard the ever-popular story of an old man who asks his sons to break sticks, first individually and then in a bundle?
We bet you have!
It’s such an amazing story teaching us that ‘unity is strength’.
Now, if we see it from the business perspective, it applies ever so...
Let’s get straight to the point―which qualities do you search for during employee selection? Skill and experience are the first things that come to mind. You might even consider education and certifications. However, can these things guarantee productivity and higher performance? Probably not!...
Here are the TOP 20 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR EMPLOYEE ASSESSMENT VENDOR or anyone who might be selling Human Resource Solutions. It’s important to know if they will be a good partner to work with or just full of hot air, cute bells and cool whistles.
In many organizations, personnel costs are among the largest budget line items, and given the top challenges facing CEO’s, organizations need their leaders, managers, and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance.
You can have recruitment without talent acquisition,
but you cannot have talent acquisition without recruitment. Recruitment (at least the definition) is
simple: finding talent to fill open positions. Talent
acquisition, however, is a much bigger animal. Talent
acquisition takes into account...
Over my 26 year career in the employee assessment industry, I’ve tried to present the complex world of psychometric assessments in a simple, human, smart approach to make HR Life Easier™.
Often times, businesses are trying to determine which assessment would be best for their particular need....
In today’s economy, nearly every organization faces pressure to reduce waste and run at peak efficiency. For many, this means making difficult personnel decisions to eliminate positions that don’t add sufficient value to the organization and either eliminating or re-deploying people in those...
Lean how the latest innovations in the area of adaptive assessments offer increased accuracy, are more enjoyable for the participant, provide improved information for management, and yield higher returns for the organizations.
Sitting in a classroom one day, surrounded by safety
committee members from numerous local companies, a fellow classmate adamantly proclaimed "people are flawed" when asked to describe why a particularly
unfortunate individual ignored safety rules and lost his
life in a wood chipper. I’ve...
Many people in the United States spend more time working than doing anything else. Workspaces turn into
second homes and project teams become work families. Every workplace has a unique mission and company
culture, but they all can relate to a common goal: to be a great place to work.
It’s called succession planning: the process for identifying and developing the people within an organization, with the potential to fill key business and leadership positions in the future. When implemented incisively, succession planning should be a natural progression. Discover the how PXT...
Pre-hire assessments make gathering data easy. In fact, utilizing these tools can have a huge payoff for the entire organization. The Aberdeen Group states that pre-hire assessments can have a major impact on cost to- and time per- hire, hiring manager satisfaction, employee retention,...
