Pro.file Performance System Announces Significant Advancements to Pre-Employment Screening Tool

Sherwood Park, AB, May 6, 2010 – Pro.file Performance System, a leader in personality assessment tools, is proud to announce recent enhancements to its software's Auto Compare function. These changes will dramatically improve the ability of organizations to use the Pro.file Performance System as a pre-employment screening tool for recruits numbering in the thousands. Applicants can be quickly analyzed against any job to determine their fit.

The typical pre-employment screening approach by most companies is to screen an applicant based on their education, experience and skills – in other words, their resume. When a company pre-screens this way they often find a difference in the actual performance of the people they hire even though they seem to be completely qualified.

"What our clients consistently see, and I'm sure others have learned, is that the one thing that can't be taught is motivation to do the work," says Mike Moreau of Pro.file Performance System. "Our client's recruitment assessment process now involves ensuring that, first and foremost, the person will be motivated to do the work and they naturally demonstrate the key behaviours required to excel in the role. They'll then assess if they have the required education, experience and skills and whether gaps in some of those areas are surmountable in a reasonable period of time."

Pro.file Performance System clients are now able to have higher volumes of applicants complete the OPP self assessment survey and then quickly compare candidate's results against their databank of job model behavioural benchmarks (JPP job assessment survey). The refinements to the system allow pre-employment screening of hundreds to thousands of applicants; cutting the recruitment process down significantly. Clients no longer have to use an interview to understand if a person fits the role but spend more time understanding how competent and capable the applicant will be delivering results.

Performing pre-employment screening on candidates based on behavioural match has helped companies increase retention, productivity as well as helped internally for promotion and succession planning, and management.


About Pro.file Performance System:
Pro.file Performance System is a world class personality assessment tool and talent management solution designed to help build high performance organizations. Through a combination of assessment technology and facilitator training, organizations learn the impact personality has on individual performance and building a high performance culture. An organization's biggest barrier to improving performance is people. Pro.file Performance System teaches leaders, managers and HR professionals how to get, keep and manage the right people.