THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONALITY

Before hiring someone, wouldn't you like to know if the person is easy to manage, strives for success, works well with others, builds good customer relationships, follows through on assignments, offers innovative ideas, and thoroughly learns your business?

Before investing in the development of employees, wouldn't you like to know more about their strengths, weaknesses, potential, preferred learning methods, perhaps even their core values and motivations?

Assessment Guidelines

More than 2,500 test publishers and hundreds of companies provide employee selection and development services in the United States. Consequently, the problem of choosing an assessment that meets an organization's needs can be mind-boggling. What's the best solution: recommendations from peers, online research, evaluations in trade magazines? Even more importantly, how can one be sure that an assessment provider will supply tools that actually work as advertised? Hogan Assessment Systems (HAS) has some suggestions. Hogan Assessment Systems pioneered the use of personality assessment for solving "people problems" in organizations. Its test validation research set many of the standards for employee assessment. Not all assessments are created equal; before investing in one, some sort of objective evaluation is well advised. We suggest 12 questions to ask screening providers about their business practices and assessments.

Click here to view the list of a dozen "must-ask" questions and our responses to each.