Top-performer profiling cutting costs, time to fill

February 9, 2017 Aon's Assessment Solutions

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Profiling top performers and assessing candidates for key personality traits much earlier in the recruitment process is slashing employers' time to all, a psychometrics specialist has found. In a validity study with Swiss company Localsearch, online assessments provider cut-e (now Aon) found the best sales performers exhibited different personality traits to low performers.

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