MeritTrac Services in partnership with OPP Inc., US to bring its 16PF® range of psychometric tests to India

Bangalore, August 26, 2006: MeritTrac Services, India’s largest skills assessment company, has been authorized by OPP to offer the 16PF® instrument in India as part of its assessment services. In existence since 1949, the 16PF questionnaire is recognized worldwide as a highly reliable personality assessment tool and remains one of the most valid predictors of future behaviour. It is also one of the most popular psychometric tests used by occupational psychologists in assessing people for jobs and promotion

Commenting on this latest addition to its suite of assessments, Mohan Kannegal, Co-founder and Director, MeritTrac Services said, “After offering world class skills assessment in India for over five years now, we wanted to strengthen our offerings in behavioral assessments. We are therefore excited to offer the 16PF questionnaire, a truly world class tool and one of the most respected and robust personality assessment tools available.”

Speaking about this association in India, Dr.Robert McHenry, Chairman and CEO of OPP said “We are delighted to be working with MeritTrac. We believe that their commitment to customer service, combined with the rigour of the 16PF questionnaire provides a powerful assessment solution for India’s leading organizations.”

Explaining the 16PF questionnaire, Dr.Ashok, an expert in industrial psychology and organizational behavior and consultant with MeritTrac said, “It measures personality traits including Emotional Stability, Dominance, Rule-Consciousness, Vigilance, and Openness to Change, Self-Reliance, and Perfectionism as well as five global factors of Extraversion, Anxiety, Tough-Mindedness, Independence, and Self-Control. Measuring these personality factors can help match people to roles, reduce attrition and provide inputs for training.”

About OPP

OPP uses proven psychological approaches to help individuals and organizations understand how behaviour affects performance. OPP helps clients to identify, develop and retain employees, enabling them to meet changing business and organizational needs.


About MeritTrac
MeritTrac is India's Largest Skills Assessment Company and is neither a Placement/Recruitment firm nor a Training agency. The company has assessed over 1 million candidates for over 110 customers. It designs and delivers assessment to evaluate abilities, skills and knowledge for both corporates & individuals It is a neutral organization that provides quantitative inputs on the talent pool and helps in measuring competencies for specific roles. MeritTrac currently tests around 40,000 candidates per month across industry verticals like IT, BPO, BFSI, Retail, and Engineering & Education. Their clientele include marquee names like ABB, Accenture, Adobe, Allianz Cornhill, Bharathiar University, Capgemini, Computer, Associates, Fidelity, Flextronics, GE Consumer & industrial, Google, GRO, HP, HSBC software, IBM, ICICI OneSource, ICICI Prudential, Intel, iSoft, Kyocera, Logica CMG, Microsoft, Misys, SAP, SAIC, Satyam, Tavant Technologies, TESCO, UTI Bank and Verizon among others. MeritTrac also partners state government under its SkillTrac program and is currently the assessments partner to the Governments of Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal. MeritTrac also partners several academic institutions like Bharathiar University for assessing their students on industry-readiness. Headquartered in Bangalore, MeritTrac has 250+ fulltime employees and over 1000 part-time certified test administrators on its rolls. MeritTrac operates through offices across India. They have their dedicated assessment zones in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi. MeritTrac operates in the USA & Mauritius through business partners. MeritTrac is an investee company of a fund advised by HSBC Private Equity. Further details on the company can be had from www.merittrac.com