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PERSONNEL ASSESSMENTS FOR BUSINESS & INDUSTRYPRC Vocational Testing Center, Inc. has designed a new and unique Personnel Assessment Profile designed to answer the two most important questions any employer has when interviewing new employees, will they be able to fit into our organization and will they be able to do the job? An organization's long-term success depends on its ability to hire the best worker. Hiring the right worker results in increased productivity and profits, higher employee moral, decreased employee turnaround and training time, and ensures a satisfactory employer and employee relationship, thus saving your company time and money. PRC offers your company the opportunity to be much more confident that you have chosen the “right fit” for the job. PRC can assist by providing employee evaluations that are easily understood, written in common language and requiring no special interpretations. According to a survey of CEO’s by the Center for Creative Leadership, approximately 35 percent of recently hired senior managers are considered failures.
American businesses are searching for new answers for hiring the best employees, especially when considering the increasing cost of wages, fringe benefits, contributions to Social Security, and other taxes. The investment in your employees including the time required training newly hired employees, costs of absenteeism and accidents, profit margins, and many other related direct and indirect employee costs could be reduced if you knew in advance you were hiring the right person for the job. Today, hiring decision mistakes are simply too costly. There is too much at stake, placing a heavy burden on the employer, impacting company morale, and ultimately the profitability and performance of a business. The PRC Vocational Assessment Center has business strategies that can be your answer to this human resource dilemma. PRC’s Personnel Assessment Profile can be your single most effective tool for predicting employee success, compatibility and job performance. Business and industry executives and human resource managers frequently tell us, “We don’t have the skills or time to adequately evaluate an employee”. “We simply cannot find enough good people to do the work”. “We must do something about our personnel methods one of these days”. “Our turnover is killing us, and our profit margins are going down”. PRC'S PERSONNEL ASSESSMENT PROFILES ARE YOUR BEST BET FOR SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS.
There are a number of instruments on the market that measure specific aptitudes or general mental abilities, but they do not measure how well a person will employ that ability. It is often true that a person of lower ability, but stronger determination may out perform a higher ability person. PRC tests for those unique abilities. Reviewing the job application, education, job patterns, references, and goals of potential employees are all-useful during an interview and evaluation process. However, intangibles such as competitiveness, honesty, drive, motivation, ethical values and honesty, character strength, maturity and psychological temperaments are critical to job success and are not measured in an interview or by traditional testing methods.
A college degree or certificate does not ensure success—the person is the one who makes the degree meaningful. The world is full of college students who are woefully inadequate in meeting the rigorous demands of modern competitive businesses. A degree in marketing is not going to make a sale for a life insurance salesperson. The way the person relates (personality) to the potential customer will have more direct bearing on the sale. The PRC Vocational Testing Center's Personnel Assessment Profile measures such important work elements as attitude toward power, money, temperaments, humanism, advancement, and sociability. Recognition, motivation, achievement, dominance, independence, creativity, competitiveness, leadership abilities, and the desire to work with people are also measured.Few instruments measure the personality characteristics and components that are ultimately the guiding light in successful work performance. PRC Vocational Assessment Center's Personnel Assessment Profile can measure all of these elements and provide an extremely comprehensive employee vocational profile. Our testing systems are not necessarily to be used as a means of eliminating a person as a possible choice for a job, but rather as a tool that will reveal an individual's strengths and weaknesses. The employer may even discover special abilities or interests perhaps better suited to a different job. The profile creates an understanding whereby both the employer and the employee gain by proper job selection. The employer gains someone who has the ability to succeed and holds the necessary values for success on the job. The employee gains because they are placed in a job that is best suited to their particular abilities. Their placement may lead to innovative changes or suggestions for job enhancement and improved performance, and values are not being compromised by their occupation. THE MOST UNIQUE FEATURE of the PRC Vocational Assessment Center's Personnel Assessment Profile is the"Compatibility Assessment." Most employers want workers who think like they do, who believe as they believe and have the same occupational motivations, values, and drives as they. This is frequently discovered by costly trial and error. The Compatibility Assessment compares candidates' skills and attributes with those of individuals considered (by you) to be successful managers. With our "Compatibility Assessment" employers can be reasonably confident that the employee matches many of the same characteristics that the employer has, consequently resulting in a more pleasant and productive work environment for both. PRC strongly recommends the employer also be administered the Compatibility Personnel Assessment Profile, so that a unique employer baseline work personality is created for your company's culture, style, and work ethic. Once these personality and temperament benchmarks are developed, the "Compatibility Assessment" will compare applicant profiles with your company's, thus providing you with clear concise information to make a better management and hiring decision. There are 27 critical personality dimensions that PRC can measure. These characteristics have been identified as being held by successful workers. You can see the depth of analysis that can go into the design of a detailed Personnel Assessment Profile. In addition, we have attached a sample confidential report that you would receive on each employee evaluated. "You will be judged by the company you keep". That old axiom is one that applies in most businesses today. With a slightly different slant one might say,."You will be judged by the people you hire!" Most employers will know they have hired the right person only after six to nine months on the job. We can significantly improve on your hiring track record and cut your employee turnover and related costs by giving you the critical information you need before you hire.
To Order or Subscribe:Send check or money order to Cary L. Bartlow, Ph.D. 5704 N. Rockwell, Bethany, OK 73008-2044. A full battery of tests will be immediately forwarded to you to complete and return to us. Complete the tests and return them in a self-addressed envelope. Your profile will be returned in ten days from date of receipt in our office. CALL US AT THE PRC VOCATIONAL TESTING CENTER, INC. for a free no obligation consultation on how we can help you. You will be glad you did! |
Another study reflects between 10 percent and 30 percent of job candidates misrepresent their qualifications and background on applications, resumes, and during interviews.