HireSmart - TotalView Executive Summary

Prevue tells you how well a person works with numbers, words and spatial concepts. It tells you the degree to which a person enjoys working with people, with data and with machines. Prevue also gives an analysis of key personality characteristics that are related to the requirements of any particular job in your organization. The Prevue report can be used to guide the decision making process when hiring new employees, selecting people for training programs, identifying employees for promotions or reassignment of duties.

Prevue can also be used to construct a success benchmark by analyzing the characteristics of people who excel in a particular job. This benchmarking success pattern can then be compared to the characteristics of job candidates as a means of determining job fit. Experience shows that job fit is the most important underlying factor in successful job performance and no other assessment tool is as thorough as Prevue in supplying this information.

Prevue helps reduce the organization's expenses by reducing the incidence of unproductive hires (those with low job fit) which directly impacts the turnover rates from low job satisfactions and low performance. It increases the effectiveness of company's training investments by identifying the learning speed, motivation and interests of potential trainees. With the assistance of Prevue Assessments managers report that they have more time to coach others, productivity increases and the bottom line grows.

Dr. Bartram is Dean of Faculty of Science and the Environment, and Professor of Psychology in Department of Psychology at the University of Hull. He is a founder member and director of Newland Park Associates Ltd. (NAPL), Bartdale (Human Factors Specialists) Ltd. And HADC Ltd. He is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society. His research interests and specialization are in psychometrics and computer based assessments in the occupational, work, and organizational sector. He is the author of over two hundred journal articles, technical reports, books, and book chapters, most of which concern assessment and issues related to assessment particularly in the context of personnel selection. In addition he has been responsible for the design and implementation of a range of assessment software products and paper-and-pencil tests which are used in countries including the UK, USA, Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Singapore. His current research interests include the use of distance training using the Internet.

Dr. Bartram is a Charted Occupational Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BOS). He is a member of the BPS Division of Occupational Psychology, a member of the BPS Steering Committee on Test Standards. He currently sits on the BPS Membership and Qualifications Board and is a member of the BPS Council. He is also a Fellow of the Ergonomics Society. He has been responsible in the BPS for the design, development and implementation of the Level A and Level B Standards for Occupational Testing, the associated qualification system and verification procedures. He is joint author of the BPS Level A Open Learning Program and is Senior Editor of the BPS Level A and Level B Test Reviews. He was elected to the Council of the International Test Commission (ITC) in 1994 and is heading an ITC project on the development of international guidelines for standards in test use. He is the UK representative on the EFPPA Task Force on Tests and Testing. He has been a member of various UK Department of Education and Employment (DfEE) Advisory Groups concerned with assessment. He has conducted a number of national surveys and audits relating to selection and employment practices in the UK and has advised DfEE, NCVQ, and SCOTVEC on issues relating to the assurance of quality and effectiveness in the assessment of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). He is a member of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority's (QCA) Committee on Vocational Qualifications and Occupational Standards. He worked with the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA) on an analysis of the abilities underlying General National Vocational Qualifications and provided technical advice and support to NCET on the application of computer adaptive testing techniques to basic skills for testing for FE. He is currently working with FEDA on a QCA funded project on the development of computer-based initial assessment instruments for applicants for FE courses. He has also worked with QCA on projects associated with the role of Higher Education in the delivery of NVQs and he chairs the Consultative Working Group for Occupational Standards in Applied Psychology. He has worked as a consultant with a range of national and international organizations both in the UK and abroad, specializing in the design, implementation, and validation of assessment procedures and personnel selection at all levels. He is currently the Cabinet Office's external auditor and advisor to their Customer Consortium for the Civil Service Administrative Fast Stream recruitment process.

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