Harrison Assessment Talent Solutions

Superior Decision Support vs. Other Alternatives- WHY?  

• First,   most assessments do not measure magnitude (you are either one thing or the other) but it is your strongest traits (and for some, extreme traits)  that drives performance and what you do in critical situations.  Think about it.

• Breadth,  Most assessments only measure 8 to 32 traits, we measure over 150 and if you want to predict job specific success and support coaching decisions,  the full scope of traits underlying performance, not just personality categories is essential.

• In addition , most do not measure negative traits and we've found that typically 60% of the reason someone fails is due to negative traits even if they have all the positive traits.

• Also,  especially if they are derived from conventional personality testing, they have some success picking up self-deception but that's not really an issue, but overt deception, they cannot accurately pick up (no mechanism) and so garbage in and garbage out.  

• Finally, most assessments, because they are derived from personality typing instruments and because they use matched pairs or multiple choice to gather the information (which would take 10 hours of testing to gather the info we do), do not have enough information to predict success in specific jobs.     

Why Better Decision Support for all THREE:  Talent Acquisition,  Talent Development and Improved Management Outcomes?    For the reasons stated above and…

• We've designed a system that is easy to use,  which unlike any other system, integrates all the key elements of people selection decisions,  eligibility, suitability, Interviews,  cognitive and other tests, …

• It's a single assessment that uses advanced digital technology and an understanding of behavioral science to gather what it  would take others 10 hours to gather We do it in around 20 minutes on average.

• We have an extensive library of job specific research studies that are easily customizable to your organization.   There are over 6500 seed Job Success Formulas.  Because of the information we collect (see above), our job success formulas are highly predictive for all types of jobs: executive, management, supervisory, administrative, customer service, sales, entertainment, technical, operations and even laborers or assembly workers.

• Because our technology allows us to collect the full spectrum of information that underlies and enables the prediction of performance, this causal information is highly valuable in coaching and performance management.   Deploying the data from the Harrison with managers can greatly improve your productivity and working environment culture. Our paradox technology enables our assessment to be the core offering of many executive coaches while being an invaluable tool for managers using it in their "practice".

• Our four levels of deception detection and our ability to identify integrity shortfalls,  provides an added dimension for ensuring a high performing and high integrity culture.

• Our culture screening capability allows you to eliminate people who clearly don't fit your cultural and integrity goals and to work with those who may have some minor issues.

• We have the industry's leading performance benchmarking technology. If you have over 25 people in the same job (each with over 1 year tenure) and good performance metrics, we can generate highly accurate predictive job profiles for less than $1000 per job.  A phenomenal reduction in cost in this industry.  This capability can also be used to build a library of competencies.

• You can automate the majority of the recruiting process greatly reducing cost while improving the candidates experience.  A true win-win.  We provide a database of questions for most jobs and a means to easily develop your own questions.   These eligibility questions on experience,  knowledge, certification, willingness etc.. Are then scored to create a final objective score. If they exceed the score, they are automatically invited to complete the suitability assessment.    Once they complete that, the system dynamically ranks them based on their results in both.   You choose the top X for processing and let the rest go without wasting additional effort.  In addition, for no additional cost, you can send a Greatest Strength report to all candidates who have completed the suitability assessment regardless of status.

• And we haven't even mentioned our superior support for talent/succession planning,  team performance building and career planning.

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