Why Use Assessments?

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A problem for candidates and hiring managers is their reliance on resumes as a major source of information for making sound candidate selection decisions. Valid assessment instruments, especially those that are specific to workplace behavior such as the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies' WorkPlace Big Five Profile™, assist in candidate quality identification.

Workplace specific assessment tests transform "soft" or subjective applicant information into a "harder", more objective, more structured form required to identify good job fit, pre-qualify applicants, and direct them to the top of the appropriate resume pile.

ResumeFit's Certified Resume significantly improves both the candidate's ability to represent themselves, and the hiring manager's ability to select a quality candidate. Candidate Fit Indices™ (CFI™) measure a candidate's career experiences, education, skills, workplace traits, and competencies against the position description being applied for.

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How Employers, Hiring Managers, and Recruiters Can Benefit By Using Assessments

1. Reach more objective hiring decisions
During the recruitment and selection process, subjective elements such as emotions, intuition, and "gut feelings" always have been and will be very important. However, if used excessively or exclusively, it becomes a fault resulting in bad hiring decisions. Unfortunately, most hiring decisions are often made within the first 5 minutes of an interview and are based on emotions, biases, personalities, and stereotypes.

Scientific assessments such as the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies' (CentACS) WorkPlace Big Five ProFile™, assist you in making a quality hiring decision based on objective data and reason, not primarily on emotion. You can greatly increase your odds of hiring success by using ResumeFit's state-of-the-art, integrated assessments. ResumeFit's Certified Resume reveals and measures the total person.

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2. Reduce cost of new hires

Scientific workplace assessments developed by CentACS assist hiring managers compare candidate scores with top performers and better match candidate skills with the requirements of the job thereby avoiding the costly exercise of hiring unsuitable people.

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3. Reduce turnover

Employee turnover can cost as much as 2.5 times a person's annual salary plus the hassle of re-hiring and training. ResumeFit's Certified Resume helps hiring managers match the right people to the right jobs and then manage them according to their workplace style, allowing you to reduce turnover substantially.

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4. Improve productivity resulting in increased profits

A very accurate "thermometer" for measuring job fit is how you feel about going to work in the morning. Employees are going to be most satisfied when they can be themselves and don't have to put on an act. Happy employees are productive employees, and productive employees can increase an organization's profitability. Employees are happiest when they are a good fit for the job. Scientific assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies show strengths and weaknesses of individuals and organizations as a whole, and can help select people who can move mountains as well as scale them.

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5. Increase employee retention

Two out of every three employees would rather work somewhere else for someone else. People with good job fit, performing work in their flow zone, think, talk, and act differently from their average or poor performing associates. ResumeFit's Certified Resume can help you identify the right workplace traits and behaviors in your new hires, resulting in employees who stay longer and produce more for you.

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6. Build effective organizational teams

Reasons to use the WorkPlace Big Five ProFile™ with teams:

1. It provides a common vocabulary to discuss individual differences.
2. It helps individual team members to understand themselves better.
3. It gives each team member more understanding of the other on the team.
4. It provides teams with explanations for their group dynamics and behaviors.
5. It assists team members in planning strategies for capitalizing on strengths and minimizing weaker areas.

CentACS' WorkPlace Big Five ProFiles™ help evaluate the traits, abilities, and compatibility of team leaders and team members to improve team performance and dynamics.

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7. Decrease the cost of training

We have more or less assumed that we could make anyone into anything if we just worked with the person long enough or hard enough. Studies estimate that 90 cents of every training dollar is wasted because most employees don't apply what they've been taught when they return to their jobs after training. We're finally beginning to learn that not all workers take equally well to all training. Human Resource Optimizer (HRO), developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies, addresses the crucial question: Does the performer possess the appropriate raw material (ability and traits) to support development of the competency? HRO can identify the ideal mix of Big Five traits and other talents for yielding high performance training. HRO will be available in a future release of ResumeFit's Certified Resume.

ResumeFit saves you the time and cost of hiring the wrong person for the job, and then having to train replacements.

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8. Increase sales

Why is it that 20% of sales forces produce 80% of sales? For one, not everyone is a natural salesperson. Additionally, people are motivated by different means. ResumeFit will help you identify candidates with the skills, interests, and motivations associated with being a top salesperson and being part of the 20% of salespeople that produce 80% of sales.

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9. Improve employee morale

Candidates hired for the right positions have increased job satisfaction and morale. ResumeFit helps you ensure that you hire the right people in the right jobs.

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10. Reduce employee lawsuits

ResumeFit's Certified Resume provides you with objective data. In the absence of objective data, you can not demonstrate that a hiring or a promotion decision was made objectively. You can be sued for discrimination. One-third of businessess will be sued this year over employee issues.

Structured interviews, background screening, reference checks and behavioral interviewing are very subjective processes and have been used for decades, but have traditionally failed to deliver solid long-term results. In fact, most hiring decisions are made in the first five minutes of an interview. Assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies provide you with the objective data you need to make quality, lawful, hiring decisions.

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11. Manage more effectively

Assessments developed by the Center for Applied Cognitive Studies (CentACS) give you a thorough understanding of your fellow associates' styles and traits. Scientific workplace assessments give you a closer look at your staff's capabilities, capacities, styles, behaviors, and compatibilities in order for you to manage more effectively. Hire and retain the best people for the jobs; train and manage them according to their own styles and traits, using information from scientific assessments specifically designed for the workplace.

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12. Save time and money

Half of a manager's time is spent trying to fix people problems. Using scientific assessments developed specifically for the workplace developed by CentACS, you will better understand the personality and behavioral traits, and thinking - learning styles of your staff. This information will enable you to identify and solve potential people problems faster and with greater success.

The time from when employers realize they've made a mistake in hiring until they resolve the situation is about a year. That's a long time, which costs you a lot of money, to put off the inevitable.

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