Recruiting the wrong person for a key job may be one of the most expensive decisions any organisation makes. On the other hand, recruiting the right person can transform your organisation for the better.

It has been estimated that it costs organisations the equivalent of the whole of the first year's costs (salary and any other benefits) to put right a wrong recruitment decision. Research reported in a number of test manuals shows that using good assessments professionally as part of the recruitment process dramatically increases the number of right decisions you make.

Typically, firms create job and people specifications, and use personality and ability tests on shortlists or, increasingly, to create candidate shortlists in the first place.

Individual development: Developing existing employees is less risky and less expensive than recruiting new ones. Assessments help focus any training or development program, finding out levels of knowledge, preferred ways of learning or motivations for learning. They can also create levels of self-insight into respective strengths and weaknesses and set goals as part of effective development plans.

Where interpersonal issues are key to underperformance, test results provide a platform for discussion: they take the heat out of addressing tricky personnel issues.

Team and organisational development: Tests can be used to gauge attitudes, look at the spread of characteristics and skills in a workforce and create the best organisational structure to deliver objectives. International research constantly replicates the finding that diverse teams always outperform a team made up of similar people. Tests identify individual differences - the diversity that fuels a high-performing group of people. Quite apart from the hard business benefits mentioned above, there are some more subtle, less well-known benefits of using tests. Marketing and branding is one: using good tests makes you look good.

We will visit your business or we can arrange for tests to be done online. We produce reports of varying types dependent on your particular requirement.

Standard report cost: £49.99: Produces a profile of the individual concerned. We will advise you as to how the individual will fit into your business and whether they are suited generally to the type of role you are seeking to fill.

Comprehensive £84.99: A more enhanced profile which comes with interview questions linked to personality type. These are excellent for probing an applicant to ensure you recruit the right person for your business. Questions come in two sections. The first which are linked to an applicants strengths which are produced from the profile. The second section involves questions that are linked to what are considered to be applicants weaker areas, that are once again produced on the profile. This is ideal for final interview situations.

Job matches are £9.99 extra for each report: This reoprt shows the types of work that an applicant is most suited to due to thier profile type. For example, you may be recruiting a sales person for your company, who would be working on a business to business basis, working away and unsupervised from the office. However their profile could say that the person is suited to sales, but in more of a retail environment. This can save a company time and money by ensuring they employ the right individual, with the right personality make up to do the job. Produces a table of job fits starting at the most likely demonstrated in percentage terms.