Profiling for Success (PfS) is our state-of-the-art online test administration facility.  Developed around a new and exciting range of psychometric instruments, PfS offers our clients unrivalled facilities for test session management, innovative and visually attractive online questionnaires, detailed and searching computer-generated reports and, last but not least, the revolutionary PfS Prism software for further analysis and display of your assessment data.

 

PfS reports are e-mailed to you, and optionally to your candidates, as PDF documents immediately upon completion of every test or questionnaire.  For each of our tests and questionnaires, we offer a range of attractively designed and informative reports, both for clients and for feedback to candidates.  
 

Our computer-generated narrative reports for multi-scale questionnaires (e.g. the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and 15FQ+) have broken new ground in the use of advanced programming techniques to capture expert knowledge.  For example, our new 15FQ+ feedback report draws upon more than 40 years combined experience of our consultants in personality test interpretation, providing a depth of feedback which is unrivalled in the field.

 

 

 

We threw the rule book away when we began to design the PfS online questionnaires. Static screens with drab lists of questions were replaced by bright, colourful screens, dynamic elements where appropriate and graphic features designed to capture the attention and enhance the motivation of test-takers.  
 

The Decision Analysis Test, for example, presents background information above the response area of the screen in the form of an 'information manual', the pages of which turn over with a click of the mouse.  This enables respondents to consult the background information (text, graphics, tables and so on) in order to reach the decision required by the question they are currently working on.

 

Paired assessments are unique to PfS.  Much of what we want to find out about a person concerns not just what they think about themselves but also what others think about them.  PfS paired assessments allow two people to take a questionnaire, sometimes on an equivalent footing, but at other times with one as the 'main respondent' and the other as the co-respondent. 

 

For example, with the paired version of the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, the questionnaire assesses firstly the main respondent's own view of themselves but then assesses how they are seen by their co-respondent. The report then presents both views side-by-side and comments on the similarities and discrepancies between each of the two perspectives.  The use of this technique is invaluable in the fields of personal development and team building in that it allows a person to explore in what areas their own perception of themselves might not always be shared by others.

 

Setting up your assessments in PfS couldn't be easier.  You can set up an 'open' access code specifying a series of assessments that all of your candidates should take and simply e-mail the same set of entry codes to each and wait for the reports to come back to you by e-mail. Alternatively, you can set up a PfS project whereby you upload a list of candidate details to the PfS server, indicate the tests and questionnaires you wish to use and PfS will do the rest for you, e-mailing each candidate with their own unique set of entry codes, instructions for how to access the PFS assessment area and your own custom instructions and contact details.

 

Some clients are happy to receive results only in the form of e-mailed reports. Other clients however need to do more with their data.  This is where PfS Prism comes in.  Pfs Prism is a software program provided free to all of our clients which allows you to download your data for an assessment project (for example, data from a particular selection exercise) and display the data in a variety of possible ways. 
 

For example, you can produce bar charts comparing all candidates for the position in terms of each of the tests they have taken. You can define cut-off scores on each of the tests and then generate a report showing you which candidates have passed each of the cut-off scores. And once you know which candidates you want to invite for interview, Prism can send interview invitation emails to all those who passed the cut-offs and rejection letters to all those who did not.