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...
