Case Studies - Employment Screening Success Stories

Manpower International
As one of the world's largest staffing organizations with more than 400,000 customers worldwide, Manpower screens hundreds of thousands of job candidates each year. When Manpower decided to standardize its software skills testing for employment screening, the company turned to SkillCheck Assessments from First Advantage. Read the entire case study.

Professional Staffing Group
Professional Staffing Group (PSG), a successful, high-volume staffing firm located in the heart of Boston’s financial district, specializes in office support, creative and financial placements. The firm’s innovative staffing practices, including its Guaranteed Work and Free Temp for a Day programs, have made them one of the fastest growing firms in the region. Read the entire case study.

REED Services
After making significant upgrades to its computer infrastructure, Britain's largest staffing firm, REED Services, needed to replace its outdated application software, including its skills assessment solution for vital employment screening operations. REED identified SkillCheck as the most effective and advanced testing product available to replace its legacy testing solution. Read the entire case study.

International Monetary Fund
When the International Monetary Fund wanted to raise the performance standard for its job applicants and existing employees, First Advantage Assessment Solutions assisted in the development of a performance benchmark, then provided the independently validated tests that would help the IMF measure job skills against a performance standard. Read the entire case study.

American Heart Association
When faced with employment screening for new secretarial hires for office software skills, the American Heart Association (AHA) turned to First Advantage Assessment Solutions for fast, effective, legally defensible tests that could be deployed over the Internet to AHA affiliate offices around the nation. In less than three months, our assessment solutions team developed validated performance-based tests that could be delivered online and completed by applicants in less than an hour. Read the entire case study.

Belgian Government
To increase productivity among its employees, the Belgian Government’s employment organization (SELOR) wanted to develop a customized computer literacy testing program that could be efficiently and securely administered on a massive scale to government employees throughout the country. Meeting all of these requirements, Our flexible, web-enabled SkillCheck Educational testing system was the natural choice. Read entire case study.

Harford Community College
Harford Community College wanted to ensure that all incoming students had the basic computer skills needed for them to be successful in their courses. But making a computer class mandatory for everyone was expensive and inefficient since computer skills varied so widely among its students. Using SkillCheck Professional Plus software from First Advantage with its easy-to-use test-creation functionality, the college developed a basic computer skills proficiency test that students now take at registration. Providing additional computer education on an as-needed basis saves the college time, money and resources. Read the entire case study.