The most expensive problems companies face can be solved with a better understanding of the people they employ. Understand your people better through Profiles International, the leading creator of assessments that truly work to identify, develop and understand employees at all levels. Our employee assessments provide information used for hiring, promoting, succession planning, 360-degree feedback programs, management development, training, motivating, improving customer service, and other employment issues.

Our employee assessment solutions can help clients:

  • Screen-out unsuitable candidates
  • Match others with jobs that fit their inherent capabilities
  • Understand the strengths and limitations of successful onboarding
  • Identify opportunities to enhance performance and maximize their long-term contribution to the organization

Our Most Popular Assessments

Manager 360°

Turning vision into a reality is arguably one of the key challenges facing today’s businesses. Manager 360° helps align managers and their bosses by identifying and comparing the six critical skills required for success in a role. This helps identify talents, gaps, and focus areas to get everyone on the same page to deliver on the organization’s strategy.

The heart of this assessment is a 360-degree survey. It is used primarily to evaluate the effectiveness of your managers and leaders. This survey combines feedback from Direct Reports, Peers, Supervisors, and even customers, with a personalized program for developing specific leadership skills based on that feedback. This process highlights a manager’s job performance in eight Universal Management Competencies: Communication, Leadership, Adaptability, Relationships, Task Management, Production, Development of Others, and Personal Development.

How Does It Work?
This foundational survey used to:

  • Gather perceptions of the manager’s leadership capabilities from the manager, and a reference group of boss, peers and direct reports, and has the ability to collect comments on each competency being measured.
  • Enable a complete understanding of the manager’s capabilities across eight universal Management Competencies and 18 key Skill Sets.
  • Provide insight into each Skill Set through a robust set of reports, including a detailed development plan for the individual and coaching and management considerations for those who supervise the manager.
  • Give senior leadership an overview of talents, gaps, and focus areas for the organization.

The Manager 360 is one of Scott HR’s favorite tools to create real, measurable change in management and leadership positions. All of us perform better with consistent feedback, and the 360 provides an incredibly comprehensive view of your manager’s strengths and weaknesses, and how they affect your team. Ask for more information about the 360 today!

Pre-Employment Assessment

Did you know that employee theft and fraud averages $9 a day per employee? That’s about $2,000 per employee a year! Reduce your risk of costly damage, theft, and fraud by employees with this pre-employment assessment. The Pre-Employment Assessment is a brief pre-hire survey that measures an individual’s basic work-related values and is typically used early in the candidate selection process.

This assessment helps organizations reduce hiring risk in a quick and cost-effective manner. It is scientifically designed assessment tool that helps answer these questions:

  • Can this applicant be trusted?
  • Is this applicant drug-free?
  • Is this applicant dependable?
  • Will this applicant be a long-term, hard-working employee?

Reduce your time and effort in reviewing applicants by making the Pre-Employment Assessment a part of your preliminary hiring process.

 

Job Matching & Peak Performance Assessment

Given the opportunity to land a new job or to be promoted, people may tell you what you want to hear instead of the truth. Additionally, individual success often depends on the specific type of job and the organization in which they would work. The cost of a bad hire is very high considering the hiring and ramp-up costs, low productivity, and disruption to customers and co-workers.

The Job Matching and Peak Performance Assessment measures how well an individual fits specific jobs in your organization. The “job matching” feature is unique, and it enables you to evaluate an individual in relation to the qualities required to successfully perform in a specific job. It is can also be used throughout the employee life cycle for selection, onboarding, managing and strategic workforce planning.

This assessment gives you an objective inside look at the behaviors and motives of job candidates to help you make better hiring, promotion and organizational decisions. Giving this information to managers helps them be more effective and get the very most from their people. This assessment provides THE information most organizations try to obtain from a face-to-face interview and can continue to be used to train, manage and develop the employee in the future.

Make Assessments Work for You

Ask Scott HR for more information about how assessments can simplify hiring, enhance onboarding and fully equip you to understand and develop your most important resource – your people!

Scott HR has an affinity relationship with an authorized business partner with Profiles International. 

Many pre-employment assessments can be completed online and without a monitor. Results will be emailed to you so you can screen and process applicants quickly.

Unique job-matching assessments can help reveal how candidates think and reason while acknowledging how work habits could enhance or detract from future success. These assessments also show how an employee can best be coached and set up for success through onboarding, management, and promotions.