People
Issue No. 3 - December/ 2001/january
introducing the profiler
Getting your employee teams to work efficiently and productively is an omnipresent challenge—the smaller your business, the more significant the challenge is.
Obviously, how well he or she will mesh with the staff currently in place is critical when considering a prospective employee—but how can you know this before you hire?
Human resources companies are acutely aware of this, and the importance of good relations in a workforce. Drake Personnel believes some 87 per cent of people who leave an organisation do so because of a personality or culture clash. Drake has developed a profiling system aimed at preventing disharmony. Users say it is remarkably effective.
The system, called Drake P3, is based on the answers to a series of questions designed to draw out the important aspects of a subject’s personality.
P3 is designed to assess initiative, communication style, motivational needs, decision-making abilities and energy levels. Results are assessed according to known human behavioural patterns and put through a mill of some 14,000 calculations when generating a personality profile. P3’s software is driven through four interfaces: Selection Expert, Management Expert, Team Expert and Performance Expert. All can be licensed by frequent users, or accessed through the web. All compile findings into detailed reports.
Selection Expert allows employers to analyse both candidates and jobs. Candidate Profile is its main module, ...
