PreVisor, provider of employment assessments and talent measurement solutions, promoted Caroline Paxman to the new post of Chief Customer Officer.

Paxman has been PreVisor’s Chief Product Officer and SVP of Professional Services since 2007, having joined the company in 2005 from ePredix. Prior to PreVisor, Paxman worked at Retek Inc., an international software company, where she was Vice President of Worldwide Services and a member of the executive team. She began her career in business consulting with Accenture, the global management consulting firm.

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Previsor, provider of employment assessments and talent measurement solutions, announced an agreement with Human Talent Technologies (owned by Drake Beam Morris) in Bogotá, Colombia. HTT is the latest of several international distributors for the company, and will represent PreVisor in Latin and Central America. view article »

PreVisor has been granted a patent for technology that delivers assessments over the internet; predicts both an applicant’s job performance and turnover potential; and provides employers with real-time scoring and rank ordering of applicants for a particular job.

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A report by PreVisor and ADP says performance management and career development are among the top talent priorities for companies in 2010. The Global Assessment Trends report also says that retention is a worry for most companies.

Get a free copy of the report here.

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A PreVisor team of scientists has been awarded the 2010 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace by the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology.

The award goes to a joint project team comprised of Walter C. Borman, Janis S. Houston, Tracy M. Kantrowitz, Richard A. McLellan, and Robert J. Schneider, in recognition of their work developing and validating computer adaptive personality assessments.

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PreVisor's new Retail Suite assessment solution is designed to identify job candidates who can thrive in today's tough retail environment, especially those who will be more productive and stay longer on the job to drive sales and store success. view article »

Not everyone can work effectively and efficiently at home. Yet for certain jobs, having a workforce scattered across the country, working from their homes, means a wider talent pool from which to draw and lower operating costs.

Now comes PreVisor, the employment assessments company, with AtHome Agent, an assessment tool  that identifies job candidates who have the ability to thrive when working from home, even for extended periods of time.

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PreVisor has signed a multi-year contract with hhgregg, Inc. for its assessment tools and services. PreVisor will be integrated with the ADP VirtualEdge recruitment solution used by the appliance and electronics retailer.
Headquartered in Indiana, hhgregg has approximately 4,000 associates in 111 locations, and plans to open 14 new stores in the next 12 months, staffed with about 1,500 new hires. view article »

Dr. Elaine Pulakos, COO of PreVisor subsidiary PDRI, has been given the the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. The award was announced at the society's recent conference

Her new book, "Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business," was recently released and is available through Amazon.

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Organizations can save millions, boost sales and improve productivity by using pre-employment assessments in the talent acquisition process.

Those are some of the findings in PreVisor's 2009 Business Outcomes Study Report. The 3rd annual report released today summarizes 33 business outcomes studies. The rerport found that assessments had a strong and measurable impact on most or all of the firms’ performance metrics.

Register here to get a copy of the report.

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