Strengthening Employers Workforce
Development Role

Workforce development frequently describes itself as an employer-driven process. Nonetheless, employers regularly bemoan the gap between their skill requirements and the competencies that applicants responding to job-postings and job-orders bring.

Is the following a familiar employer’s refrain?

• Why do you keep referring applicants who don’t have the skills I require?
• Why must I guess what kind of worker someone will be?

Soft skills are central to both questions.

Click here to review a process that:

• Enables employers to respond to the above questions, while lowering the cost of hiring and  reducing turnover;
• Better focuses workforce development on critical work-ready skills; and,
• Provides future workers with a competitive advantage.

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• A cross-validation study involving the assessment of 8,000 individuals from whom 420 individuals were hired. Assessment results are compared to their supervisor's evaluation of performance, post-hiring and turnover data is provided.
• Very brief case studiess of the impact soft skills assessment makes
• Soft skills and job-matching

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• Case studies that show the impact of LRI's selection and assessment technology on several organizations - from car dealers, financial institutions, manufacturing, AAA and Sprint.