When it Comes to Predicting Employee Performance, Skills Testing Only Tells You Part of the Story

SkillCheck's Identity Brings Together Today's Best Practices in Behavioral Testing, Including Valid Testing, Online Delivery, Advanced Reporting and Simplified Administration

BURLINGTON, Mass., April 12, 2004 --When it comes to accurately predicting employee performance, skills testing only tells you part of the story. An individual's attitudes, aptitudes and characteristics are equally important in determining whether a job candidate is a good fit for the position and for the organization.

Today SkillCheck, Inc., the leading innovator in skills assessment solutions, introduces Identity, a new suite of fast, effective attitude and aptitude tests designed to provide recruitment professionals with a more complete profile of a job candidate. Identity brings together the best practices of the testing industry including advanced reporting with detailed candidate descriptions and suggested follow-up interview questions; simplified test administration, and multiple deployment options including both software and online delivery. Developed specifically for the business setting by an industrial psychologist, the entire Identity suite is also fully validated in compliance with EEOC and Federal Testing guidelines.

The Identity product line includes the following assessments: Risk-Free, Cognitive, Sales, Service, Workplace Skills and Workplace Personality. Each test measures candidates along a variety of scales, including a built-in candidness scale to ensure that questions are being answered honestly.

SkillCheck President Jon Haber observed: "Skills testing only gives you one third of what you need to accurately predict employee performance. Attitude and aptitude testing should be used in conjunction with skills testing to generate a more complete profile of a candidate. With staffing and corporate executives increasingly recognizing the importance of organizational fit in cultivating high-performing teams, tests that measure behavioral tendencies are becoming more widely accepted as part of normal due diligence during the recruitment process. Identity provides a valid, reliable, cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution for addressing this specific need."

The entire Identity suite of tests is available for PC, network and Internet deployment. For additional information about Identity, please visit our web site at www.fadvassessments.com.

About SkillCheck
SkillCheck provides more than 800 skills assessment products, covering the broadest range of clerical, software, call center, financial, healthcare, industrial, legal and technical candidate competencies. Available for PC, network and Internet deployment, our skills assessment products deliver a powerful combination of performance-based and knowledge-based questions, along with unsurpassed test-creation functionality that enables customers to meet their precise business needs. SkillCheck also provides custom solutions to meet enterprise testing, training, education and certification needs. For additional information, please visit our website at www.fadvassessments.com.