eTalentTraks

Pre-screening candidates with eTalentTraks© can dramatically improve:

Productivity

Retention

Customer Satisfaction

Absenteeism

Sales

In as little as 10 minutes you can learn which candidate is best for your jobs, which of your jobs are best for your candidates, and/or which candidates are best for your organization.

eTalentTraks© Competency Based Software Suite[1] is only $895.00 per year. You can screen one candidate or 1000 candidates for the same price. Link it to your current career web site and have the results integrated into your Applicant Tracking Software or Talent Management Suite.

We know that increased competition for quality employees, tighter budgets, and time constraints put a heavy burden on your recruiting and staffing initiatives.

Contact us today info@etalenttraks.com or visit us at www.etalenttraks.com and if you can’t wait to sign up you can call us at 954.399.1388 and we’ll get you started today.

Situational skills testing may be simulated with training software for businesses seeking to achieve more with less manpower and monetary capital. The idea behind it being companies can benefit more by effectively cross-training and developing vital characteristics among its employees despite having fewer of them.

Some organizations, namely management consulting firms, big four accounting firms and a majority of U.S. Department of Defense bureaus utilize behavioral-style job interviews paired with the situational evaluation as well; this is considered very cutting-edge.

Airline pilots and military aviators see this often as part of their training and development. The customization of human resource software can be set up to put employees in two specific situations based on their relative job functions or to accommodate cross-functional expectations of a particular job role. For example, a software code writer might be trained to make an outbound follow-up phone call similar to that of one account manager does and check-in with your customer waiting on completion of a given upgrade. Situational software can role-play with the software writer in cross-training him or her for basic interpersonal and diplomacy skills.

A lot of doctors are trained this way. Physicians are briefed on the situation at hand, basic patient vital signs and the like, and are expected to respond to a series of hypotheticals in terms of diagnosing the illness and recommended tests and treatment. Their evaluations are scored according to their actions and the thought processes involved in taking such.

eTalent Traks software can help you determine the potential for cross-training your staff by helping you determine each staff members proficiencies and deficits as it relates to work style, dependability, and work orientation. You can then use this data to determine a cross-training plan to ensure your organization is getting its money’s worth with highly trained, proficient personnel. The more impressive your staff, the more impressed customers will be.

Call eTalentTraks today and learn more as to how our software can be customized for your training and personnel development challenges.

As the economy has slowed in the last couple of years across varying industries, business owners, their managers and namely human resource personnel have had to do more with less.

Less manpower, less technology, less of a marketing budget, and less training for employees.

The phrase “more with less” is something human resources and operations managers are no stranger to. Plenty of management structures are cutting out many human resource functions altogether; or their idea of it has been reduced to likes of payroll, personnel files and health insurance deductible filing.

To do more, employees have to know more and have exposure to cross-training; namely in the following the areas:

• Ÿ  A functioning business whereby customer service reps familiarize themselves with marketing
• Ÿ  Marketing people spend time in the field developing new sales prospects
• Ÿ  Senior management and business owners spend time fielding calls from customers

eTalentTraks software suite can help you to test your current employees for competencies that would be applicable in other areas of your company.  You can then cross-train your employees to assist the company in areas where they will be most successful.

The software can be customized to test employee’s skills and need for training by category such as customer service, technical know-how, problem troubleshooting where situational simulations are huge, and a host of other specific criteria relative to your business operations.

Call eTalentTraks today to get started on a plan to supplement the cross-training of key employees and do more with less.

Business owners are in fierce competition, make no mistake, not only to drive profit margins but to retain and develop their best employees. Unfortunately, the most overlooked resource in a stressful economic recession are often productive, loyal employees.

Gauging strengths, weaknesses, interests, and personality characteristics during the employee annual review process is invaluable to the operations manager of today.

A superb way to integrate a collaborative effort to match skill sets, qualifications, experience levels, and career development goals against your organization’s needs and long-term growth plans is the application of an employee assessment software suite by eTalent Traks.

Instead of a conventional employee review summarizing job descriptions, responsibilities, and the daily activities with a typical scoring system and performance rating, the analytical aspect of an eTalent Traks’ reporting tool provides in-depth, yet simplified data.

From an operational management standpoint, such a user-friendly platform is ideal. The employee assessment tools can help pinpoint where an individual employee would be best suited as they grow within the company. This type of information can help employers guide good employees on a path that will enable them to succeed within the organization.

Showing an interest in overall development and skills improvement presents an advanced, yet non-threatening way to increase loyalty and retention among personnel.  Make no mistake, uncertain economic circumstances sometimes call for employees to stay where they are however, this does not mean a high performer is not eying his next job opportunity when the opportunity arises.

Keep your organization at peak performance levels by reinforcing confidence that you are investing in employees with the most advanced technology and going out of your way to find the best fit for them within your operational parameters.

Employees differ, market dynamics shift, and a key responsibility of the astute business leader is to effectively match the two. Contact eTalent Traks today and learn how we can develop a plan for your upcoming round of employee reviews.

Human resources will love our easy-to-evaluate reports, operations managers often relate to quantifiable data, and your employees will learn about themselves and how they can better serve the organization.

An accurate, reliable tool that helps hiring organizations zero in on the best overall job candidates is an invaluable service…especially in such an overcrowded labor pool. Sometimes instinct and the conventional interview/selection process is flawed. Lots of variables paired with little margin for error within competing businesses sometimes leads to confusion and disarray.

Few categories of industry find this more applicable than technical occupations. Technical skills are relative and skills are subjective. For instance, a brilliant automotive technician may be a nightmare to work with or rarely show up for work.

Work style, willingness to collaborate and attention to detail can all be considerable factors to a hiring manager which are not taken into account in a standard aptitude evaluation or an interview process. Stop making hiring decisions based on references that are subjective and start getting detailed information about your job candidates before making hiring decisions. eTalent Traks’ flexible employment assessment tools are equipped to accommodate the ever-changing needs of organizations.

eTalent Traks  software is designed by educators and human capital experts, consulting organizational psychologists before any software code writing, the suite features a well-balanced value proposition for users. eTalent Traks can customize key areas of concern to produce the most efficient indication of candidate viability for your specific job offering.

Contact eTalent Traks today to learn how we may be of assistance and let us provide a simulated assessment of your next candidate. Sit back and be impressed by our enhancement of the “industrial matchmaking” process.

Retained search, permanent mid-level recruitment and even contingency staffing businesses have grown volatile during the last few years as the U.S. labor market has grown saturated across multiple industries with few exceptions.

If you are operating a staffing/recruitment agency, a substantial element of your day likely involves touching base with contacts and interviewing viable job candidates, either for open job requisitions or to maintain a potent talent pool superior to the competition.

eTalent Traks software can help you and potential customers reinforce a job seeker’s value proposition to the hiring organization by articulating that individual’s characteristics beyond an elevator speech, resume, references and the twelve-question “profiles” a number of middle market recruiting services typically employ when assessing job candidates.

Let’s face it, organizations with hiring budgets have pressure on them to capitalize on a vast candidate pool. They want every dollar’s worth in exchange for paying someone a salary. Forking over a recruitment fee or premium above hourly for temporary workers, has to be fiscally justified even more so.

A thorough aptitude and work style evaluation from eTalent Traks provides a compelling justification for such service fees. Chances are a staffing agency will retain a customer satisfied that an important job order candidate has passed an in-depth qualifying employment assessment tailored to meet criteria set forth by the hiring decision-maker.

Please contact eTalent Traks today at 954-399-1388 to arrange a demonstration and get ready to be impressed.

Managers in today’s small to medium sized businesses are pulled in varying directions. A number report that they have overlapping “house keeping” responsibilities in addition to their primary work activities which might be marketing, handling payroll, administrative or support roles, and the like.

Doing more with less manpower translates to managers having less time and energy to allocate to a thorough new hire process. But what if an employment software application could help management identify desirable character/work-style traits in candidates aside from skill set and experience?

This is the value proposition of employment screening software such as  eTalentTraks which can maximize efficiency by providing a platform for your company to pre-screen job seekers in a more sophisticated and accurate manner and eliminate the inconvenience and monetary costs of guess work in hiring staff.

Statistics continue to suggest hiring employees based on the status quo, (i.e. skill set, specific job role or industry experience, and interview/first impressions) are flawed. eTalentTraks takes much of the guess work out of the hiring cycle by tapping into a scientific approach to identifying talent and increasing retention.

In any business environment continuity speaks powerfully about the strength and image of an organization. High turnover makes a poor impression and before long, customers question the quality of the enterprise.

eTalentTraks software can help reduce turnover by providing a comprehensive report of  relevant data that a resume, interview, and reference check do not so a hiring manager can better predict the likelihood of a new representative working out in a scientific approach in a streamlined manner.

Learn how you can get out of the trial and error tradition of interviewing and hiring, contact eTalent Traks today to integrate a scientific approach that works into your hiring process.

When you are applying for jobs, it is important to put yourself in the shoes of the decision makers. Making a decision can be challenging. Think of the last time you were at the mall trying on shoes, found a few pairs you liked, and had to choose amongst them. Sometimes more choices can lead to delays and stress. The same applies to HR decision-makers and hiring managers at medium to large corporations with career web sites receiving high volumes of resumes.

Imagine you are the one responsible for sifting through pages and pages of qualifications summaries, cover letters and candidate resumes with the daunting task of narrowing it down to a dozen or so whom you will call, phone screen, and potentially invite to interview.

What might get your attention or stand out from the crowd in addition to the basics and a concise cover letter?

What about taking the initiative to provide a bit more information as to your qualifications for the interview such as a work-style analysis, dependability, and work ethic?

More and more business leaders spend time on CNBC and giving interviews speaking about the significance of work ethic and aptitude for cross-training, and being effective in a team environment supersedes the ho hum of the resume and list of core competencies in the overall scheme of things.

By taking a work style aptitude test such as the one provided by eTalentTraks, you as a job seeker can legitimize yourself by providing would-be employers with background information. In just 15 minutes you can take the My Talent Trak assessment and obtain a full report which details your work style, work ethic, and dependability measures which you can include with your cover letter and resume when sending them out to potential employers.

No one is endorsing utilizing such a test to overshadow work skills or experience levels, however, the willingness to provide this cutting-edge resource carries weight. If the qualifications and attributes among a group of candidates including you are the same, having a report from a company such as eTalentTraks can garner the attention necessary to secure the interview.

Take the My Talent Traks employment assessment today and get your free report!

We all want to make the most of our time and be as efficient as possible. Saving time in the hiring process can save your company a significant amount of money if it is done the right way. Here are some ways that you can ensure the efficiency of your hiring process while maintaining a high retention rate:

• Screen candidates with an employee assessment such as eTalentTraks. Our intuitive software will help you to pre-screen job candidates before the interview process begins. With our clearly indicated scoring, you can quickly determine which candidates are a good fit for the position for which you are hiring without the need for interpretation of the results.

• Precede in-person interviews with a phone interview. Phone interviews can be significantly less time consuming for everybody involved. This preliminary screening can help you to weed out candidates whose salary requirements are not commiserate with your offering as well as those who are not serious about the position. This first step can help you reduce the number of candidates you need to see in person by as much as 50%.

• Check the candidate’s references. A reference check with poignant questions can garner a lot of knowledge about the job candidate that you would not be able to discern in a number of interviews. Previous employers are an incredible knowledge source that can effectively point you in the right direction.

Take the first step in learning more about eTalentTraks’ employment competency test and how it can improve the efficiency of your hiring process. Call us today to schedule a demonstration!

Now that you have reviewed your resume for typos and grammatical errors, have added detail to your resume based on past experience, and you have gotten to know a little bit more about yourself through the MyTalent Traks employee assessment you are ready to take your resume to the next level. Here are the next steps to improving your resume:

1. Don’t Conform

The general resume rule of thumb is that resumes should preferably be kept to one page and should not exceed two pages. As long as you keep your resume within this range you are safe. If you need extra content to expand upon your experience, don’t feel you have to cut things out to keep your resume to one page. Conversely, don’t elaborate unnecessarily to fill space.

2. Perfect Your Objective

The objective of your resume is the first thing that employers will see. You should take the time to ensure that your objective adequately describes what you are looking for in a position and that it is in line with the requirements of the position for which you are applying.

3. Include the Little Things

You may think that some of the little things you have done won’t be important to employers but including things like that job you had while you were in college or community service you do in your spare time can demonstrate your character.

4. Make It Visually Attractive

Unless you are creatively gifted (or want to pay somebody who is to help you), your best bet when designing your resume is to keep it simple. Choose an easy to read font and stick to black text color. Using a variety of colors and fonts will only detract from your credibility. When in doubt, keep it clean and simple.

By following these simple resume rules of thumb, you will ensure your success in the job market. Feel free to post your thoughts on these tips in the comment form below, we would love to hear your thoughts!