Carol Niemi

Revolutionary pricing makes innovative technology affordable throughout the hiring process

Alpharetta, GA (April 22, 2012) – BestWork DATA, an Alpharetta-based human performance technology company, has introduced a product with the potential to change how companies purchase and use employee assessments during their selection and hiring process. Called No Bad Hires, it is packaged and priced to be affordable for use throughout the screening and hiring process.

Traditionally, companies have bought assessments as individual tests. While varying in their ability to predict an individual’s actual job performance, most tests are priced so high – usually from $50 to $100 each – that companies use them only later in the selection process, after screening resumes and interviewing candidates.

“By then,” according to BestWork DATA CEO Chuck Russell, “the hiring manager and his staff have already invested a lot of time and energy in a candidate. The manager has basically made up his mind and uses the assessment to validate his selection.”

Russell’s company has addressed this problem by licensing No Bad Hires for unlimited use, rather than as individual tests, for $995 per year for companies of up to 100 employees, commensurately higher for larger companies, thus significantly reducing the cost per test.

Russell relates the story of a growing company that recently received more than 500 resumes for 20 advertised positions.

“The CEO plowed through those resumes himself,” said Russell. “He could have screened them first with No Bad Hires for about $2 each and saved himself both time and money.”

Russell stresses the importance of screening early in the selection process because neither a resume nor an interview can identify a candidate who lacks the hardwired traits and cognitive abilities to do a particular job successfully.

These are traits such as assertiveness, adherence to rules and attention to details, which, according to Russell, are required for success in particular jobs and are hard to change even with training and incentives. Job applicants lacking these traits are what Russell calls bad hires.

For example, a sales rep with low assertiveness will not be a good closer, a truck driver with low adherence to rules will have trouble making on-time deliveries and an accountant with low attention to details will be prone to errors.

“Not bad people,” said Russell, “just people who can’t do the job.”

In fact, a trait that is a liability in one job may not be in another. High assertiveness, for example, though necessary for success in sales, is less important for success as computer programmer.

For three years, BestWork DATA has used proprietary technology to measure these immutable traits and abilities and then produce easy-to-understand, clearly actionable reports used by companies to screen, select and onboard employees and then manage, coach and train them.

“We produce reports,” said Russell, “that describe how an individual will think, behave and learn in a given job. We can separate good hires from bad hires and even tell if someone who is not performing up to expectations will ever change. Clients use this data throughout their employees’ careers, from hiring through training and even promotions.”

No Bad Hires is a package of 25 reports focused on the hiring process and priced to be affordable enough for use from initial screening through onboarding. It even provides employers with specific interview questions for candidates based on their individual strengths and those required for the job.

According to Russell, using No Bad Hires to screen at the very beginning of the hiring process rather than later keeps employers from spending valuable time on candidates who lack the traits necessary to do the job successfully.

“We advise our clients to screen first, then select,” he said.

By screening earlier, employers eliminate bad hires from the beginning so they can spend their time more productively on the candidates with the greatest chance of being successful.

No Bad Hires is available for purchase directly through the website at www.nobadhires.com or through a No Bad Hires authorized sales representative.

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For more information or to schedule an interview with CEO Chuck Russell, please call or email Carol Niemi. The company offices are located at 5815 Windward Parkway, Alpharetta, GA 30005. The mailing address is 7742 Spalding Dr. PMB 374, Norcross, GA 30092.