Harcourt Assessment Introduces TalentLens for Manufacturing Assessment Solution
New solution assesses a wide range of skills essential to high job performance in the manufacturing industry.
San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) July 12, 2007 -- Harcourt Assessment, Inc., a leading talent assessment company, today introduced the manufacturing edition of their TalentLens series of assessment solutions. To assist employers in making more accurate hiring decisions, TalentLens includes assessments to identify specific traits within candidates that are scientifically tied to high job performance in the manufacturing industry.
"In manufacturing, people are a company's largest and most valuable asset to achieve their operational and financial goals," said Harcourt Assessment Vice President of Human Resources Phillip Weiss. "Precision hiring and promotion provides manufacturers with the highly skilled and agile workforce necessary to achieve significant improvements in the overall operation and productivity of an organization. TalentLens provides manufacturers with the tools to consistently make accurate and efficient hiring decisions."
TalentLens provides a comprehensive view of a candidate's skills and traits with a single assessment solution. Through the use of role-based assessments, TalentLens provides a targeted assessment of each candidate that helps predict potential job performance. These competency focused assessments provided by the TalentLens solution enhance employers' ability to make accurate and efficient hiring decisions and place the right person in the job.
In a single assessment that takes just 45-60 minutes to complete, TalentLens offers an integrated measurement of specific ability and work-related personality traits documented by validity studies and the Department of Labor to be important to each specific role. TalentLens for Manufacturing is customized to evaluate critical competencies and quickly identify talent for seven key industry roles, including:
| | - Production employees
- Maintenance and repair
- Front-line supervisor
- Industrial sales representatives
- Engineer
- Manager
- Director
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To ensure accuracy, the assessments for all roles use an unlikely virtues scale to detect faking and response distortion.
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, world-wide, 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.
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