Why is it necessary to use pre-employment assessments in your search for quality staff?

Dependability - In 1998, absenteeism cost employers $757 per employee, according to a report in USA TODAY. This was the direct cost reported by a survey of human resource professionals and does not include the cost of hiring others or paying overtime to perform the work of absent employees.

Liability - You can be held liable for employees' behavior on and off the job. You must know the nature of the people you hire because their criminal behavior could cost your business millions of dollars. Every time you hire without practicing due diligence, you may be accepting liability for their actions - even when they are "off the clock."

Law Suits -  You can be sued for illegal discrimination. In the absence of objective data, how can you demonstrate a hiring/promotion decision was made objectively, without discrimination because of gender, race, religion, etc.

Fictional Past - Résumé writers write great fiction. In a survey of recent college graduates, 95% said they would be willing to make a false statement in their résumés in order to get a job. Forty-one percent admitted they had already done so, according to a report in Nation's Business (May, 1999).

Standard Process - Testing is acceptable, even expected as reported in Molding Systems (May, 1999, v57 i5 p56(1)). A survey found that 92% of job applicants accept testing as part of the job qualification process. Only 3% resent it, while 5% were neutral.

Assessments offer a solution!

These 21st Century assessments successfully identify potentially excellent employees better than 75% of the time.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Two of three new hires will disappoint in the first year

• Two of three employees would rather work somewhere else

• Ninety-five of 100 applicants will "exaggerate" to get a job

• Most hiring decisions are made in haste - during the first five minutes of an interview

• One of three businesses will be sued this year over an employment issue

• Turnover costs thousands of dollars for every departing employee

• Eighty percent of employee turnover is avoidable!

The use of assessments has become essential to employers who

• want to put the right people into jobs;

• provide employees with effective training;

• help their managers to become more effective; and

• promote people into positions where they will succeed.