Spherion^® PeopleScreen^™

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Sarah Schmude
Client Consultant
Assessment Services
Spherion Corp.
2050 Spectrum Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Tel (864) 344-2255 Option 1 then Option 4
E-Mail: sarahschmude@spherion.com

Why It Works | When It Works | Proof It Works | Track Its Work Putting It To Work For Your Organization | FAQs

What is PeopleScreen™

Developed for the industry by the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI) and the Spherion Assessment Group, PeopleScreen™ utilizes innovative technologies to quickly and accurately screen any number of job candidates for hourly positions within a plastics manufacturing facility. With PeopleScreen,™ the first step in the employment process has been completed for you. It delivers you a pool of best-match candidates for further consideration, reducing the time and money you spend evaluating resumes and identifying the right hires.

Why It Works

By prescreening potential candidates, you're able to employ people faster and cheaper because you reduce the ratio of candidates to hire. By utilizing a standard and common tool across the organization's hiring efforts, you can ensure an unbiased, consistent screening process. Regardless of your company's size or number of office locations, PeopleScreen™ is designed to handle thousands of applicants an hour, making it a viable solution for any size of organization.

How It Works

PeopleScreen™ uses a two-tier process to prescreen job applicants via the phone to determine their qualification and fit before moving on to the more time and cost-intensive assessment and hiring procedures. It is the first step in narrowing down a pool of potential candidates for your organization.

• PeopleScreen™'s Tier One – Candidates begin by answering a number of questions focused on basic qualifications such as age, criminal background, eligibility to work and years of experience. Failure to meet any one of the minimum qualifications asked in Tier One could disqualify an applicant from continuing through the employment process.
• PeopleScreen™'s Tier Two – If candidates meet the basic requirements in Tier One, they will then move seamlessly on to Tier Two, which contains yes/no questions designed to measure behavioral characteristics and work-related attitudes. Responses to these questions are used to determine whether they are a best, meets or least match for further consideration in the job.

In order to aid you in identifying best candidates for further consideration, PeopleScreen™ delivers a detailed summary of each candidate via e-mail or fax. This provides basic candidate information and a rank (best, meets or least match) to let you know how well the candidate fits the job requirements.

When It Works

PeopleScreen™ is literally "open 24 hours." Through two technological platforms, PeopleScreen™ prescreens applicants 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This approach allows you to extensively broaden your potential candidate pool, including those who may work off-hours or may not be computer-savvy.

• Interactive Voice Response (IVR) – Participants complete the automated prescreening service over the phone, answering a series of questions through a user-friendly voice interaction program.
• Interactive Web-Based – Completely Web-enabled and requiring no download or IT integration, participants access a Web site via the Internet and complete the prescreening on-line.

Proof It Works

Spherion's^® PeopleScreen™ delivers results where it matters, from increasing productivity to reducing time-to-fill rates to decreasing costly turnover. Spherion knows that a bad hire can cost an organization between two and seven times the employee's annual salary. Utilizing a prescreening assessment tool can significantly decrease the costs associated with employee turnover and bring efficiencies to a number of other vital areas within an organization.

For example, last year Spherion's PeopleScreen™ helped a large distribution company address dangerously high turnover rates, particularly within the first 30 days of employment. After implementing PeopleScreen,™ overall turnover was reduced by 9 percent and 30-day turnover by 27 percent. A collections call center was facing a similar challenge of simply unacceptable turnover levels. PeopleScreen™ helped the organization reduce turnover by 15 percent within the first 60 days of employment. And finally, a national retail chain recently engaged PeopleScreen™ to raise its quality of candidates, with the long-term goal of increasing productivity and sales. After using PeopleScreen,™ productivity increased by 10 percent and sales increased by 5 percent.

SPI Member Testimonial

"Spherion's phone pre-hire assessment has saved United Southern Industries $21,150 in hiring just 63 people! That's a $336 savings per hire! I'd recommend Spherion's assessment tool to anyone looking to reduce their hiring costs through technology."
Wayne Wilson, Corporate Director Safety Training, United Southern Industries

Track Its Work

Spherion has made a significant investment in technology so that we may provide clients with access to real-time and robust reporting capabilities.

Whether you need to track costs, prescreening practices or the number of applicants who qualify for Work Opportunity Tax Credits (WOTC), Spherion's robust reporting technology arms you with the intelligence you need to make better hiring decisions.

Putting It to Work for Your Organization

As a partner, Spherion proactively seeks ways to improve upon and configure our solution to a client's needs. Spherion's consultants work with you to identify and recommend the most non-intrusive and beneficial process changes to build the PeopleScreen™ solution into your pre-existing process. Clients benefit from the following services:

• Customized – Spherion offers different versions of our PeopleScreen™ solution that focus on your general hiring criteria for major job groups. During the development process, Spherion customizes a prescreening solution that meets your unique situation and needs.
• Customer Service – Dedicated client service consultants are assigned to customers before, during and after implementation-on average Spherion can design and deliver the solution in six weeks. Operational reviews are conducted on a quarterly basis to analyze and measure key metrics such as cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, pass rates and more.
• Training – Spherion's training can be delivered to the end users of the system through a variety of methods, all designed to ensure clear understanding of how to manage and control the system, giving you as much or as little control as you'd like.
• Ownership – Post-implementation, Spherion enables you to have ownership to manage the system by allowing job openings and closings to be quickly and easily made online and effective immediately.

Spherion's PeopleScreen™ is the integral, first step for any organization's employment process. If you want to improve the quality and efficiency of your hiring process, put PeopleScreen™ to work today.

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