Ultimate Practice Offers Pre-Employment &
Employee Development Testing
Would you like to have….
- more sales?
- higher profits?
- less employee turnover?
- increased customer retention?
- a strong sales & service culture?
- hired the right people the first time?
- less office politics & employee drama?
- more productivity from your employees?
- great “leaders” instead of routine “managers”?
Four comprehensive tests that make your job easier for only $35 each
- Customer Service Pre-Employment Assessment Report
This pre-employment test is critical for hiring the right person the first time for jobs dealing with customer service and customer interaction (including Call Centers & Help Desks). It provides you with scores to help point out the high performers and narrative responses to really help you make your final hiring decisions. The report will summarize the person’s strengths and developmental concerns to help you make the best hiring decisions. It also provides you with recommended questions for a potential second interview based on their results. This test has 217 questions and takes approximately one hour for the candidate to take. It evaluates:- Agreeableness
- Assertiveness
- Conscientiousness
- Customer Service / Responsiveness
- Emotional Stability / Resilience
- Empathy
- Extroversion
- Flexibility
- Integrity
- Openness
- Optimism / Enthusiasm
- Orderliness
- Relationship Sales
- Teamwork
- Work Drive
- Plus Their Overall Cognitive Aptitude (Abstract Reasoning, Numeric Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning)
- Administrative Assistant Assessment Report
This pre-employment test helps you determine if your candidate can fit in well with other staff, be polite and courteous to customers, be dependable in carrying out duties, and capable ofhandling typical clerical tasks. The report provides a graphical display of scores, then gives a list of strength and developmental concerns to help you understand how the scores play out in everyday behavior on the job, and suggested interview questions. The personality portion has 135 questions; the Spelling & Grammar portion has 25 questions, and the Filing Test has 100 questions. It is an untimed test but should take 60-90 minutes. It evaluates:- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Detail-Mindedness
- Orderliness
- Responsiveness
- Emotional Stability
- Flexibility
- Impression
- Management
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Integrity
- Long Tenure
- Potential
- Extroversion
- Service
- Work Drive
- And also Filing Aptitude, Grammar & Spelling
- Leadership Skills Pre-employment Test
This pre-employment test is essential for hiring people who know how to inspire and motivate people. It provides you with scores to help point out the high performers andnarrative responses to really help you make your final hiring decisions. The report will summarize the person’s strengths and developmental concerns to help you make the best hiring decisions. This test has 235 questions takes approximately one hour for the candidate to take. It evaluates:- Agreeableness
- Assertive Leadership
- Dependability
- Detail Mindedness
- Emotional Stability / Resilience
- Extroversion
- Impression Management
- Integrity
- Intrinsic Motivation
- Managerial Human Relations
- Openness to Change
- Optimism / Enthusiasm
- Orderliness
- Self-Confidence
- Task Structure
- Team Orientation
- Work Drive
- Plus Their Overall Cognitive Aptitude (Abstract Reasoning, Numeric Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning)
- Leadership Developmental Test (Current Employees)
This test is used for current employees in order to help them develop their leadership skills. It provides them with a feedback tool with which to help point out their strengths and opportunities for improvement. This test measures a person’s orientation to the future such as their preference for stability or change and whether they are vigilant or optimistic. The report will highlight the person’s strengths, weaknesses, best-fit work situations, worst-fit situations, suggestions for development and provide a detailed summary at the end. This test has 157 questions and takes approximately 30 minutes for the employee to take. It evaluates a candidate’s personal working style such as their emotional reaction or resilience, extrinsic or intrinsic motivation, and their work centered compared to non-work centered style. It looks at their interpersonal style such as independent vs. collaborative, introverted vs. extroverted and straightforward vs. image-conscious style. It also tests a person’s management style such as accommodating vs. assertive leadership, big picture vs. detail orientation, participative vs. directive and role-relations vs. human relations oriented.
Each of the above tests are taken on-line (no mailing or faxing) and come with a very comprehensive report that is delivered via e-mail to the hiring manager within minutes of the completion of the test. You may view sample reports for each of the tests above by clicking on download icon next to each test above.
The Personal Style Inventory Tests have been under development for twenty years and were created by John Lounsbury PhD., licensed Industrial-Organizational Psychologist is a professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee, and a Fellow in the American Psychological Association. The tests have been used in 38 countries around the world in a wide variety of industries. For more details and answers to your questons, click here.
If you are a job candidate and you have been asked to take a test
Benefits to Testing
| Scores on the Sales Test | Actual Employee Sales |
|---|---|
15th Percentile |
$40,000 |
50th Percentile |
$80,000 |
85th Percentile |
$120,000 |
95th Percentile |
$175,000 |
Are All Employees Created Equal? No!
Here is how your best workers help your company to be successful…
- Superior workers profit easily from instruction so the investment in training dollars is spent wisely.
- Superior workers are dependable and reliable so you can count on them.
- Superior workers reach full production quicker so you are losing less money during an orientation phase.
- Superior workers are more effective in performing their tasks.
- Superior workers make fewer errors so they are more efficient in their everyday work, cut waste, and reduce equipment breakdowns.
- Superior workers are observant and thoughtful about their work so they help improve the processes and save even more money in the long run.
- Superior workers need less supervision.
- Superior workers make better team members because they fit in well with other people on the job
- In short, superior workers are an excellent investment of company resources.
It's simple! An investment in selection testing reaps
tremendous financial benefits year after year.
Wide Applicability for Business and Industry
In addition to pre-employment selection, there are other valuable uses of personality measure. Listed below are some of the applications of the Personal Style Inventory Tests:
- Recruitment, including training recruiters in personality appraisal.
- Individual counseling and employee assistance interventions
- Training needs assessment
- Professional development
- Placement into different jobs and career paths
- Career planning
- Improving work group and team functioning
- Promotion testing
- Conflict resolution
- Succession planning
- Pre-retirement planning
- Personal feedback and development
- Partnerships and mergers
If you are a job candidate and you have been asked to take a test