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Psychometric Assessments - Tests & Benefits

Benefits of Assessments

Hiring – Using a benchmark or success pattern Prevue provides insightful, valuable information supported by penetrating behavioural based questions, for the shortlist interview.

Benefits:

• Benchmarks of essential characteristics and abilities required for your positions are established
• Focused, in-depth interviews result
• Hiring decisions are improved
• Job Fit results in productive, dedicated, motivated employees
• Reduced turnover and increased profits

Coaching – Prevue provides information to you that was not previously available and clarification of essential characteristics of the achievers in your organization.

Benefits:

• Improved two-way communication
• Coaching direction is specific and meaningful
• Increased mutual respect – management and staff

Training and Development – Prevue provides insight on the strengths and weaknesses of employees and new hires.

Benefits:

• Pro-active training plan
• Continual development of empowered staff
• Increased pride and positive attitude of staff

Succession Planning – Prevue provides the ability to create success patterns for all positions in your organization. You can benchmark an individual to as many positions as desired with no additional cost.

Benefits:

• Valuable succession planning tool
• Identify future positions and enable development of a readiness plan
• Organizations can minimize negative impact of attrition
• Low cost people management system

“State of the Art” System – Prevue provides an assessment system that was released in the mid 1990’s after a four year development process prompted by an extensive study of business user requirements. It uses today’s computer technology and occupation testing theories and methods.

Benefits:

• 75% to 85% validity, with reliable and dependable results
• Objective job fit analysis
• Recognizes and supports today’s multicultural work force

Job Benefits

Selection – increases predictability of candidate success, improves interview skills, allows you to see the total person and to make the best possible selection for the position.

Coaching – facilitates individual development, improves understanding between supervisors and employees, and improves two-way communication.

Po Bronson, in his most recent book said, “We are sitting on a huge potential boom in productivity if we could just get the square pegs out of the round holes”.

Prevue Assessment helps us to not put the square pegs in the round holes in the first place while Prevue Corporate Coach helps us work with the performance of our existing employees to ensure a better job fit.

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