NEW SERVICE SAVES BUSINESSES THOUSANDS

The People Power Company, now affiliated with Profiles International, Inc. is offering services to help organizations identify, reduce and/or eliminate people related challenges. Using scientific assessments, The People Power Company evaluates employees and job candidates, providing helpful information that is available no other way. They objectively measure attributes and liabilities that people bring to the job to help organizations reduce unwanted turnover, retain top performers, manage, coach, and promote more effectively, reduce employee stress, increase overall productivity and increase sales and profits.

Steve Wolfe      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE PEOPLE POWER COMPANY   
PO Box 426
Dunn Loring, VA 22027-0426
Phone: 703-205-9199

January 23, 2002

NEW SERVICE SAVES BUSINESSES THOUSANDS

"Hiring and promoting the wrong people is costly to business owners and can actually put them out of business," says Steve Wolfe, president of The People Power Company. Wolfe recently became associated with Profiles International, Inc., publishers of assessment tools for businesses that help them allocate their human resources more effectively, improve management and coaching practices, and put the right people in the right jobs.

"The People Power Company helps businesses assess their employees for 'job fit, which results in greater productivity for the employer plus greater job satisfaction, and success for employees," Wolfe says. "We show companies how to save thousands of dollars by reducing unwanted turnover, training expenses and lost business. We also provide methods to assure that employers hire people who are honest, reliable, drug-free and hard working," he adds.

"We provide services that protect employers against negligent hiring lawsuits," Wolfe says. "Many employers are unaware they can be held liable for an employee's illegal actions, even when the employee is off duty."

Wolfe has been appointed to serve businesses locally in the Northern Virginia, Washington, DC and Southern Maryland area, and nationally via web-enabled delivery, with the products and services of Texas-based Profiles International, Inc. Profiles was formed in 1991 to provide business and industry with the most modern and effective human resource tools for reducing "people problems" by taking the guesswork out of hiring, training and promoting. Profiles International, Inc. products and services are available throughout North America and more than fifty other nations around the world.

Profiles introduced an innovative service it calls The Assessment Center, an integrated assessment system that can be used by businesses of all types, government agencies and educational institutions. Through The Assessment Center, it is possible for an employer to assess the essential qualities of an employee or job candidate anywhere in the world, twenty-four hours a day, by connecting to the Profiles International web site on the Internet.

A business owner in Northern Virginia might have a resume from a job candidate in Silicon Valley. In just minutes," says Wolfe, the employer can obtain a report with details about the candidates thinking style, occupational interests, and behavioral traits, information that is necessary to evaluate job suitability and job fit.

Wolfe says The Assessment Center serves a wide variety of employer needs including assessments for honesty and work ethic, succession planning, training needs, sales, customer service, call center and management skills, and motivation. Think how important it is to dig beneath the surface, and know more about people you are placing in critical positions, positions involving work with cash, or driving company vehicles, or in sales positions where company revenues must come from."

We help employers confront and conquer the challenges all businesses encounter at one time or another," he says. These include issues such as absenteeism and tardiness, employee turnover, ineffective training, employee motivation and morale, employee theft, and low productivity. We have the tools to overcome many of the 'people problems that affect an organizations bottom line."

We received a letter from a client who says his business turnover rate decreased from 14% to 2.3% and as a result attendance, productivity, and morale increased dramatically, after they started using Profiles products and services," says Wolfe. It is results like that that I hope to deliver to all of my clients in this area."
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