PeopleMaps has today launched the world’s first absolutely FREE professional psychometric profiling service for employers. No cost, no obligation, no bull. See the previous post or click here http://pitch.pe/29524

After some of the most intense development work we’ve ever done we can now offer our completely free service to help companies save millions of pounds in the cost of recruitment by profiling every applicant for a job.

Obviously it also means that successful applicants are getting the jobs that are right for them, so it’s a win-win for everyone and underpins the PeopleMaps ethos.

Thank you to everyone in the team who has made this possible and make sure you or your employer has their own free service account. Sign up to enjoy the world of benefits of profiling in your business.

PeopleMaps Launches Free Psychometric Profile Reports Service to Save Industry Millions

October 21st 2009 – Online psychometric profiling company PeopleMaps today launched a completely free service to help companies save millions of pounds in the cost of recruitment by profiling every applicant for a job, at a time when companies face one of the recession’s biggest recruitment issues – unprecedented numbers of unsuitable applicants for every job.

“The UK recruitment industry is currently worth £26billion per year and PeopleMaps will save companies a chunk of that money. We’ve launched the service to help employers who are suffering from ‘application overload’ as the number of both suitable and unqualified candidates applying for fewer jobs has gone through the roof,” explained Martin Gibbons, CEO of PeopleMaps, which has over 1.2 million registered users worldwide.

By comparing every applicant’s personality profile against a ‘benchmark’ profile for a job, employers can reduce the time and expense spent on the recruitment process by around 75%. Even during this recession 10,000 new jobs are advertised each day through JobCentrePlus alone. A 75% reduction in the cost of recruiting for these positions equates to potentially tens of millions of pounds saved by industry.

Mike Bansal, CEO of recruitment consultancy and headhunting firm Talentweb said; “One client placed a single advert for an administration job and received 460 applications in a day. Company policy was to scan and retain every CV the company received; it must have taken days even before she started filtering candidates. It’s unsustainable for companies to deal effectively with this deluge of applications and they need new tools to help them.”

The latest technologies and instant secure online delivery allows PeopleMaps to provide the entirely free service so companies can profile as many candidates as they want quickly and efficiently.

Dan Unstead, Director of Perfect Placement the specialist recruitment agency for the UK automotive industry said; “Traditionally the costs involved in psychometric testing excluded many companies from being able to use it, the same businesses with potentially the most to gain. We’ve used the PeopleMaps service on behalf of our clients and for our own recruitment for years and its accuracy is remarkable.

“With the typical cost of hiring a single new employee estimated at around £12,000 absorbing the expenditure involved if it doesn’t work out can be horrendous for any business. Plus, people’s ‘soft skills’ such as communication, team management and motivation are now recognised as key to making businesses more profitable and better places to work.”

Psychometric profiling is used in staff recruitment and development by over 65% of companies in the UK alone, PeopleMaps’ technical innovation and report delivery via the web means that companies can sign up for the free service and start using it within minutes. All of PeopleMaps existing clients worldwide will have the opportunity to switch to the new service.

Martin Gibbons added; “If we go way back to the beginning of PeopleMaps in 2001, we have always been about making professional profiling accessible to all. We achieve this with our pricing and by writing in plain English, using no jargon. We also give away millions of reports for free to jobseekers, and we did that by being exclusively online. Now we’ve taken it to its ultimate conclusion – free profiling for all.”

Now don’t flip out on me here. I know the very idea of hiring someone you don’t like sounds crazy but there is a good reason for it.

Good rounded teams need a broad spectrum of personality types. Everyone has a “difficult person”, a personality type that you simply clash with.

But that person that gets on your nerves, makes you grind your teeth and squeeze things till they hurt, just may be the thing you need.

The temptation when recruiting is to hire the person we like. It’s human. We will call it all sorts of things to justify it but at the end of the day the likeability factor is very influencial. So I am suggesting that you may want to suspend it sometimes and make your team more rounded.

Go hire an irritating person that you just don’t understand and then learn how to work with them and get the most from them. Don’t just take the apparently easy path.

If you like everyone you hire then there is a risk that you are creating a very imbalanced team, which will ultimately be an underperforming team. It’s not easy and you and others will have to learn how to manage the situation but when it works, it really works. When opposites find a way to work together, magic happens.

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Overview

We all work in a team, whether it’s formal or informal. We often work in more than one team. The success of this team will be determined by how well we work together. Team Builder2 is designed to help you pull together a team and quickly enable it to perform to very high standards.

Don’t waste months getting to know each team member, instead hit the ground running. TeamBuilder2 will give you that crucial insight into each team member and tell you how they are going to interact with every other team member.

What’s in the report

Information about the individual and what makes them tick. It includes questions and consultants comments to help you dig deeper should you want to. It includes the PeopleMaps Map, a visual illustration of where an individual is in terms of personality.

Most crucial of all Team Builder 2 includes an explanation of how an individual will interact with people from all areas of the map, enabling you to see the good chemistry and the potential flare ups.

Where to use the report

Use the report to make an existing team operate better. You may also use it when recruiting a new member for an existing team to ensure they fit in and are not disruptive.

Topics in the report
Candidate Overview
PeopleMaps Personality Map
Working Together
Communication
Influencing Skills
Team Builder How People Relate

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PAs Admin & Secretaries – £25 each

Overview

PAs, Administration staff and Secretaries are vital to our companies.

It’s not enough that they are technically competent at their jobs – it is important that they get along with everyone too.

These roles have a lot of contact with people, so it is important that they get along with everyone.

It’s a broad job role but we have captured they key elements you need to know about in order to make excellent hiring decisons.

What’s in the report

This report has been designed to make interviewing quick, easy and effective.

It’s all too easy to have a “nice chat” but not come any the wiser or closer to making a hiring decision.

The report covers the key topics that are critical to these job roles.

Where to use the report

Use this report when recruiting any of the above job roles. It will enable you to walk into an interview and ask all the right questions and learn more about the person than you could on a weeks holiday in a very small boat.

Topics in the report

Overview Working together – are you going to get along?
Communication – how will you communicate
Influencing skills
Planning and Managing Resources and results
Programme and Project Management

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