Harcourt Assessment Introduces Improved Online Talent Assessment Platform

Harcourt's new online talent assessment platform allows customers to maximize their human capital investment.

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) June 4, 2007 -- Harcourt Assessment, Inc. today rolled out their improved online talent assessment platform providing customers with an intuitive interface to manage their employee assessment solutions. The new interface provides customers with a host of new features aimed at expanded functionality and ease-of-use.

"Talent assessment is vital in selecting the right candidates for hiring and promotion," said Harcourt Assessment CEO & President Michael Hansen. "The new interface makes it easier for our customers to manage the assessment process, while providing a consistent delivery platform enabling Harcourt to rapidly develop new assessments to meet specific industry and customer needs."

Some key enhancements of the enhanced online interface include expanded administration flexibility and functionality; improved user interface; and improved site configuration options. Utilizing these new features, customers will be able to:

•    Provide applicants with an easy-to-access online assessment format.

•    Manage and organize data and information more efficiently.

•    Read and interpret results in newly designed and enhanced reports.

•    Navigate quickly through a new streamlined flexible, multi-user administration interface.

•    Automate enterprise information processing workflow

The enhanced online system offers customer configuration and tailoring to unique and specific clients needs. Clients now have the ability to use Harcourt's leading assessment solutions and integrate them seamlessly into their other HR technology applications.

Harcourt Assessment offers a wide array of talent assessment solutions, helping employers to maximize their human capital investment and enhance HR workflow through assessment solutions that aim to improve the recruitment, hiring, development and retention of a stellar workforce. Harcourt Assessment's solutions provide rapid, accurate, objective and unbiased insight, and better understanding of candidates and employees. This predictive information enables employers to make more accurate hiring decisions, align individual capabilities to organizational needs, and develop a high-performance and confident workforce. Companies of all sizes, worldwide, are leveraging these solutions to drive competitive advantage in areas such as critical thinking, problem solving, leadership development and job fit.

For more information on Harcourt Assessment's talent assessment products, visit http://www.AssessTalent.com.

About Harcourt Assessment, Inc.

Based in San Antonio, Harcourt Assessment, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality assessment instruments and testing programs published under two brand names -- Harcourt Assessment and PsychCorp™. For more than 85 years, Harcourt Assessment has been providing insight about children and adults; informing instruction, curricula, and clinical practice; collaborating with educators and clinical professionals; assisting human resources, admissions and credential professionals; and creating assessment innovations, in order to provide the most effective assessment solutions for the success of all individuals.

The company is a unit of Harcourt Education, a global education provider serving students and teachers in PreK through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages. Harcourt Education is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc. (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading publisher and information provider. It is owned equally by Reed Elsevier PLC (NYSE: RUK) and Reed Elsevier NV (NYSE: ENL).

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