Merchants Pre-Employment Integrity Test™ Management Perspectives
Vice President, Human Resources
Your job is to manage all of the human capital of the organization. Recruitment, On-boarding, Training, Compliance, Culture, Communication, Compensation, and Separations are all a part of your bailiwick. That is quite a bit of responsibility, and as you know, it frequently can be a real challenge. The question then becomes one of "How do you properly manage all that responsibility?"
If your goal is to simply meet the requirements, there are a host of vendors whose systems, products, and services can assist you. If, however, the goal is not only to meet the requirements, but exceed them by creating and sustaining excellence in human resources management, the solution is quite different. Many organizations treat human resources merely as a cost center and look for every opportunity to trim, cut, reduce, or otherwise curtail those costs. Conversely, organizations which are committed to excellence understand that employees can be their single greatest asset and a foundation for long-term success. These organizations of excellence are not content with a "meets expectations" performance rating, but rather aim for "consistently exceeds".
In order to achieve and sustain this higher level of performance in human resources, organizations of excellence have come to appreciate that merely doing the same things that average organizations do, will not produce the greater results they desire. They must be willing to take the road less travelled, explore, and venture to new grounds. They also have concluded that in order to transform the human resources management, all aspects of the HR function must be fully-engaged, and the place to begin the transformation is with recruitment.
The reason for beginning with recruitment will become evident when viewed from the perspective of the Pareto Principle (80-20 rule). An axiom to the Pareto Principle, as it applies to HR, is that 20% of the employee population causes 80% of the headache and distraction experienced. Therefore efforts expended to improve the recruitment function, in order to screen out this bottom 20%, produce magnified benefits due to the 4-to-1 multiplier of the Pareto Principle. Much time, energy, and effort has been and continues to be expended by organizations in trying to discover which of the job candidates will become problematic employees if hired. However, few tools have the proven efficacy of the Merchants Pre-Employment Integrity Test™.
The Merchants Pre-Employment Integrity Test™ is designed to examine for negative behaviors exhibited by prospective employees and identify which have a propensity for and history of those negative behaviors. Specifically, the behaviors examined fall into one of four categories (theft, substance abuse, hostility, and deception). The Merchants Pre-Employment Integrity Test™ is very effective in identifying the bottom 20% and giving you, the HR manager, the ability to screen them out of the candidate pool and further free yourself from the long-term consequences of hiring one of these candidates.
As you work on transforming your HR function into a center of excellence, or further solidifying your position of excellence, we invite you to take a close look at integrity testing and experience the benefits which can become the foundation of your success.