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Employee Screening Questionnaire
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Identify more applicants like your best employees. The Employee
Screening Questionnaire (ESQ) is a 15-minute test of conscientiousness,
integrity, and dependability. It predicts applicants' likelihood of
engaging in several positive
and negative work behaviors. The ESQ helps
improve profitability and reduce voluntary turnover by identifying
candidates that are productive, accurate, committed, provide excellent
customer service, and do not display counterproductive behaviors.
Applications
• A pre-hire assessment for selection and placement.
• Excellent for a broad range of positions, from Retail and Customer
Service to Healthcare
and Security professionals.
Description
The ESQ contains 27 sets of four statements. Applicants indicate which
of the
four
statements is most characteristic and which one is least
characteristic of
him or her.
Resistance to Faking
Unlike other assessments, the ESQ is unique in that it is inherently
resistant
to "faking".
Most assessments are transparent. Oftentimes
people are able to significantly inflate
their scores when applying for
a job. Faking good on traditional selection measures compromises their
validity. The ESQ forced-choice format differentiates this assessment
from others. The ESQ is two times more powerful
at predicting future
work behaviors
than traditional selection instruments.
Forced Choice Format
The ESQ's forced choice format makes it extremely difficult to fake. It
is the first selection assessment that uses a forced-choice format. One
of the techniques
used is to pair
items that are equally desirable (both
statistically, and also according to two expert panels
of judges) and
force respondents to choose between them. Honest, dependable people
have a different response pattern
from less desirable applicants.
Superior Development
The ESQ leverages decades of research into personality and work
performance. The
ESQ is based on and uses the best and most relevant
items from three well-known and
thoroughly researched personality
measures, the Personality Research Form
(PRF),
Jackson Personality
Inventory-Revised (JPI-R), and the Six Factor
Personality Questionnaire
(SFPQ). There are over 2500 published research
articles citing one or
more of these assessments. This personality-based test is fully
compliant with the American with
Disabilities Act of 1991.
Reliability
The ESQ has shown good internal consistency reliability. Cronbach alpha
values
for the
15 ESQ scales, based on 163 job applicants, range from
.75 to .84
(median = .83). Intercorrelations among the personality
scales of the ESQ are sufficiently independent of
one another so that
each contributes uniquely to the prediction of job-relevant outcomes.
Validity
Empirical data from the JPI-R, PRF, and SFPQ are recorded in over 2500
articles published
in scientific journals. Research indicates that the
ESQ demonstrates approximately two
times the predictive validity of
traditional assessments
(0.38 vs. 0.18). This means
companies utilizing
it will make better hiring decisions and will enjoy greater
profitability.
In addition, decades of research indicate that
personality as a predictor of job performance exceeds other
non-cognitive
selection measures in its validity. Better than
interviews,
references,
and educational background.
Fax-in Scoring
After an applicant completes the ESQ, the answer sheet is faxed to
SIGMA's toll-free number.
Our fax-in scoring system generates the report
and the ESQ report
is returned in minutes.
The materials required for
fax-in scoring are ESQ test manual, question booklet and answer sheet.
Internet
The Employee Screening Questionnaire can also be completed at
SigmaTesting.Com, our exciting online testing platform that allows you
instant
local and remote testing and administrative access to a full
range of tests and
test results.
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