How it Works
The Program -
Why do I need to test my applicants?
The most important decisions you will ever make for your company are who to hire and who not to hire.
Your workforce impacts every phase of every part of your company, from start to finish. When you hire the right people, your company is more profitable, resourceful, energetic, efficient, and enjoyable. The right workforce can help you achieve your goals and live your dreams.
When you hire the wrong people, your company becomes wasteful, unimaginative, stagnant, stressful, and uninspiring. The wrong workforce can destroy your company.
The truth is that some people are a good fit for your company, and some people are not. We’ll help you identify the right ones and avoid the wrong ones. Because when you hire the wrong person, it’s not good for you or them.
What is the Athena Quotient?
Our assessment, the Athena Quotient (AQ), is the most effective predictor of employee success ever created for a simple yet powerful reason—the AQ measures judgment.
In many jobs, judgment is just as important—sometimes even more important—than job skills or talents.
- The Athena Quotient is not an IQ test.
- The Athena Quotient is not a personality profile.
- The Athena Quotient is not a psychological test or an emotional balance profile.
How does Athena know who is a good fit?
The Athena Quotient knows who is a good fit because it measures what matters most: judgment.
No matter who you are, you must have good judgment to be successful. Judgment is the primary driver of our decisions, choices, and actions; it is more important than personality or even intellect.
Personality and intellect have little, if any, correlation to success. Sure, at times, a pleasing personality or high intellect helps, but success requires an ability to make successful decisions–and we do that through our judgment.
But most people don’t truly understand judgment or how judgment impacts success. We do.
We know the types of judgments employers want and those they wish to avoid. Our work has enriched many clients in healthcare, retail, construction, legal, banking, education, criminal, military, technology, athletics, and more.
How long does it take?
It begins when your applicants complete our online judgment assessment, the Athena Quotient (AQ). Most people complete it in less than 20 minutes.
Immediately, you will know their judgment’s character and strength. Then, our reports quickly identify those you want on your team.
- Hire and promote better employees at every level of your organization;
- Lower attrition or turnover—including backdoor turnover, the loss of your best employees;
- Reduce costs associated with hiring mistakes such as recruiting and wasted training;
- Customize hiring based on your unique “best performer” models.
We have administered the AQ to hundreds of thousands of people across a wide range of corporations, jobs, and work environments.
We make hiring and promotion a measurable, simple process. We reduce the subjectivity and “wishful thinking” that plays too great a role in most hiring processes and replace it with measurable “decision criteria.”
Are You Hiring...
If your company employs entry-level unskilled laborers, you still want them to possess solid basic judgments and good common sense. We’ll quickly and easily show you the candidates with the strongest basic judgment.
Managers and supervisors require greater judgment. They must possess the strength of judgment to lead a team or group, which often involves a variety of people and situations.
We’ll show you who is ready to lead a team. For those not quite ready, we’ll help you strengthen their judgments and get them ready.
Our clients range from organizations with fewer than 10 employees to those with tens of thousands. Should your organization need to process hundreds or even thousands of applications during job fair events, we can easily accommodate your needs.
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