21st Century HR' Now Available ATLANTA (BUSINESS WIRE) March 28, 2001 - Fitability Systems announced today it is bringing hiring tools used by Fortune 500 companies to small business owners and managers nationwide.
Utilizing the Internet, small businesses can now compete with large companies for top talent by using a new online interview and candidate assessment service the Company previously made available only to large companies.
Available at http://www.fitability.com/, Fitability is a fast, reliable system that helps businesses attract, evaluate, track and place ``best-fit'' candidates. Fitability saves time by providing a pre-screening tool to ``interview'' candidates online prior to a telephone or face-to-face interview. The system streamlines the hiring and retention process for small businesses' administrative, labor, management and professional needs. Unlike other Internet-based tools, Companies pay only per-use and can use the system for only $50 per interview without any ``up front'' fees, software licenses or training required.
Fitability saves time and expenses for management by reducing resume-reading time, accelerating candidate communication and speeds hiring time. It assists in predicting a candidate's job performance and satisfaction -- factors that lead to greater productivity and lower turnover. Although the assessment only takes a candidate 15 minutes to complete, management can know their candidate's natural behavior patterns within 3-5 minutes via an easy to read report in full compliance with EEOC guidelines. Within seconds of a candidate completing the assessment, the hiring manager will receive e-mail notification that the candidate has completed the online interview and companies can learn as much about an applicant in this time as it would normally take to observe the individual's behavior over 5-8 weeks. The system provides career-related information about an individual's personality and then compares it to specific job profiles. Based on the most reliable model of personality in the world -- the ``Big Five,'' Fitability supplies these tools to help organizations make the best decisions.
Finding candidates that ``fit well'' is a big issue among small businesses today. The economy this year is making companies more cautious and although indicators don't yet point to hiring slowdowns, companies are paying more attention to each hire than they were during the ``house on fire'' environment of last year. In addition, in a recent national workplace survey conducted by public opinion research firm Zogby International and commissioned by Headhunter.net, 78 percent of the nation's workers admit they would leave their job if a better offer came along. Only 20 percent of women and 25 percent of men claim that money is the key to commitment, the survey said. ``Better-fit'' employees are more likely to perform well and stay longer, reducing the risk of bad placements and the associated costs. ``Bad hire'' losses include the costs of hiring, training and development, as well as lost productivity and management time.
Fitability's system gives small business owners an inexpensive tool that prevents expensive hiring mistakes at a time when the pain of making mistakes can be even more critical. Using the power of technology to streamline the assessment and interviewing process, Fitability's automated Web-based software is the only online personality assessment program that provides 750 job profiles, job titles and benchmarks. Based on five years of research and 130,000 participants, Fitability provides employers with quick access to skill requirements, experience necessary, training, education and more -- allowing companies to compare their candidates to their selected job profiles and gain insights into their strengths and challenges.
``These validated behavioral assessment tools offer a rapid way to develop an extremely accurate picture of the real person,'' said James R. Campbell, chairman and CEO of Fitability Systems. ``Companies seeking new employees can simply have them log onto the Internet and start doing `21st century HR' over the Web today.''
About Fitability Systems
Fitability Systems is a leading provider of online interviewing and assessment services, enabling businesses to evaluate the ``fit'' with their job and company prior to interviewing a candidate. Prior to interviewing a candidate, Fitability's fast, reliable online assessment system helps employers engage, evaluate, track and place ``best-fit'' candidates. More than 500 hiring managers in a variety of industries are now using Fitability. Fitability Systems is being used by more than 21 corporate customers including Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), Ameritech, WW Grainger (NYSE: GWW - news), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO - news), and Curtis 1000. For more information, call (770) 730-5950 or visit http://www.fitability.com/pr.
