SkillCheck Puts TalentScout Pre-Employment Skills
Assessments to the Test at Professional Staffing Group

TalentScout Enables Successful High-Volume Staffing Agency in Boston to Measure Essential Job Skills in Half the Time Required by Traditional Testing

BURLINGTON, Mass., November 1, 2004 --SkillCheck, Inc., the leading innovator in skills assessment solutions for the staffing industry, today announced the results of a pre-employment skills testing study conducted with the Professional Staffing Group (PSG), a successful Boston-based staffing agency specializing in office support, creative, technical and financial job placements.

Designed to measure the effectiveness of SkillCheck's TalentScout time-adaptive skills assessment in a real-world, high-volume staffing environment, the scientific study revealed that when PSG moved from the traditional computer-based testing they had been using to the innovative time-adaptive TalentScout test, the time needed to test job candidates in the essential Typing, Word, Excel and PowerPoint applications decreased significantly from an average of 55 minutes to an average of 31 minutes while maintaining high-quality results.

Fitting with the adage "Time equals money," the financial advantages of reducing test time and enhancing the productivity of the candidate screening process comes in many forms. As PSG President Aaron Green observed: According to PSG President Aaron Green, not only did TalentScout significantly reduce the time required to test candidates in job critical skills, it also produced a better testing experience for job candidates because it eliminated waiting time between tests. Green noted : "We are undergoing a major office expansion this year and TalentScout's testing efficiencies will actually permit us to renegotiate our lease because we can now test twice as many candidates without having to add any more workstations."

TalentScout is a revolutionary new skills testing solution that enables staffing professionals to determine, with a single test and in half the time required for traditional testing, whether a candidate has the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to be successful in a particular position.

Using advanced testing technologies such as computer adaptive testing and performance-based interactive simulations, TalentScout gives staffing professionals the most information about a candidate in the shortest amount of time, including what further testing or training could turn that good candidate into a great hire.

The TalentScout testing suite includes assessments for the following positions : Clerical/Administrative, Call Center, Accounting/Bookkeeping, Computer and Internet User, Legal Admin, Medical Admin, Microsoft Office 2000 User, Microsoft Office 2000 Power User, Microsoft Office XP User and Microsoft Office XP Power User, and Microsoft Office 2003 User and Microsoft Office 2003 Power User assessments. Existing TalentScout customers will automatically receive any additional tests that are added within a year of their purchase as part of their annual subscription.

For more detailed information on SkillCheck's TalentScout study with PSG or to see the important role that TalentScout is playing in the "Third Wave" of testing, please visit our website at www.fadvassessments.com

About SkillCheck
SkillCheck provides more than 800 skills testing products, covering the broadest range of software, clerical, 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.