Last Week the Managing Partner of one of EPIC Software Corporations clients, Derhak Ireland, a prestigious executive search firm and owner of RightFit Recruiting agency, conducted a webinar through HR.com, a global professional association for HR Leaders and Practitioners. The focus of the webinar was to demonstrate how formal assessments can quickly and easily eliminate the guess work when hiring new employees that are passionate about their employers business and the role they are hired for to make it more successful. A portion of that webinar focused on the due diligence Derhak Ireland exercised to choose the best pre-employment assessment tools, tools that are responsible for assisting Derhak Ireland achieve the highest 24-Month Candidate Retention Rate of any Search Firm in Canada over the past 5 years… an unparalleled 97.6%. After assessing over 60 pre-employment assessment tools, Derhak Ireland chose Ascentii’s RoleFit Survey, (Ascentii is a division of Toronto-based EPIC Software Corporation).

HR.com’s webinar sign-up portal was quickly slammed with webinar registrants wanting to reserve their seat; seating was capped at 100 attendees and over 1,100 interested HR professionals that wanted to attend - but couldn’t due to limited seating - requested the recorded session link.

In response to the overwhelming interest in this topic, the President and CEO of EPIC Software Corporation, Mr. Gary L. Melling, has agreed to facilitate smaller, more intimate 1 hour webinar sessions to drill down into the detail of what the RoleFit Survey can do for businesses wanting to make a quantum leap in their hiring practices, employee engagement, customer retention, work force productivity and enterprise profitability (also of note was the high number of government and Not-For-Profit organizations that were also represented in the webinar).

Seating will be restricted to 25 executive participants per session on a first-come, first served basis and only be offered once a week for a limited time period. Make the choice to take advantage of this unique opportunity. Since a number of executives that wished to participate in the original session were outside North America, these weekly webinars will be offered on different days of the week and times of day to also accommodate executives and decision-makers in different time zones.

Webinars will include three components:

1) A presentation on a minor change organizations can make in tools and process to go from struggling to find/attract suitable employees, to becoming an employer of choice, and becoming more profitable with a work force of engaged and passionate employees;

2) A demonstration of the pre-employment assessment tool used by Derhak Ireland to achieve their 24-Month Candidate Retention Rate of 97.6%, and;

3) An open Q&A session with Mr. Melling to ask candid questions and learn from his 30+ years of experience in pre-employment and employee assessments, and strategic work force optimization, which causally affect enterprise profitability.

NOTE: Only the first 25 participants for each live session will be accepted on the date and time of the session. The intention is to provide HR leaders and business decision makers with unique access to a published thought-leader (Harvard’s Journal of Cost Management), with a proven track record of delivering high value enterprise results, and the type of Return On Investment (ROI) and Cost/Benefit that others only aspire to, in a forum that is both focused and interactive.

To attend this webinar, please click on the following link a few minutes before the session is scheduled to start:

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/671332941

For the audio [portion of this call you may use the VoIP option or dial in by using the following numbers:

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Our apologies in advance to those who try to attend the webinar but due to high volume are unable to participate. The date and time of the next session will be posted on LinkedIn 3 business days in advance of its scheduled start. If you would like more information, please email me, Geoff Gordon, at GeoffGordon@mail.com, directly or call me using the North American Toll Free Number at 1.800.627.4151.

Kind Regards & Continued Success,

Geoff Gordon