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Does Your Job Fit You?


Business Editors

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2001

New Online Career Assessment to Help Job Seekers job seeker also job·seek·er
n.
One who seeks employment.
 Uncover the Perfect

Career Fit!

Stuck in a dead-end job where you feel underemployed un·der·em·ployed  
adj.
1. Employed only part-time when one needs and desires full-time employment.

2. Inadequately employed, especially employed at a low-paying job that requires less skill or training than one possesses.
 and think you would be better off unemployed?

Looking to reach your potential while making more money? Hard-working individuals who would like to know more about who they are and how to achieve their maximum potential will be interested in a new offering from Fitability Systems.

Previously available only to companies nationwide, Fitability can help identify:

      --  Does your job fit you?
      --  What jobs will you enjoy?
      --  Where will you be able to accomplish more?


Fitability is a new online personality assessment tool that gives you great information about your personality and shows how you fit a variety of jobs and career fields. Available at www.fitability.com, Fitability allows job hunters and career-minded individuals an inexpensive opportunity to learn insightful information about their personality and job fit. For only $19.95 individuals can take the 10-15 minute Fitability Personal Profile, and upon completion, receive a detailed personality assessment within 3-5 minutes that can help identify the job or career that best fits them. Fitability also includes an individual development report that provides insights on personal effectiveness and areas for growth and development.

People taking the interview will receive a personal profile report and discover insights on their strengths and challenges. In addition, they can:

      --  Explore different jobs and careers by reviewing job
        descriptions, skills requirements, experience necessary,
        training, education and more.
      --  Improve their interview skills and resume using their
        personality interpretation and information gathered from their
        target job profiles.


Unlike career counseling Noun 1. career counseling - counseling on career opportunities
counseling, counselling, guidance, counsel, direction - something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
 firms who allow conventional paper-based assessments as part of a more expensive course or program, and may offer career counseling, coaching and testing services with no guarantee of results, Fitability requires no long-term Long-term

Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year.


long-term

1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term.
 commitment.

Although career interest assessment is not new, taking a powerful, validated val·i·date  
tr.v. val·i·dat·ed, val·i·dat·ing, val·i·dates
1. To declare or make legally valid.

2. To mark with an indication of official sanction.

3.
 and inexpensive assessment online is. Fitability helps individuals explore their preferences for different kinds of work by finding out how similar they are to successful people in a wide variety of occupations. Using the power of the Internet to streamline the assessment process, Fitability's automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 Web-based system is the leading online personality assessment program with built in job groups and benchmarks. A library of job profiles based on five years of research and 130,000 participants provides career-seekers with quick access to job descriptions and requirements for skills, experience, training and education for most administrative, labor, management and professional positions.

About Fitability Systems

Fitability Systems is a leading provider of online interviewing and personality assessment services that provides employers, recruiters and job seekers with tools to identify the "best-fit" between a person and a job. Prior to interviewing a candidate, Fitability's fast, reliable online assessment system helps employers and recruiters engage, evaluate, track and place "best-fit" candidates and also helps individuals to discover new jobs that fit their personality and helps them with their career. More than 500 hiring managers in several industries are now using Fitability. Fitability Systems is being used by more than 30 corporate customers including Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Ameritech, WW Grainger (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
: GWW GWW Gallery Worldwide (website)
GWW Get Well Wishes
), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), and Curtis 1000. For more information, call (770) 730-5950 or visit http://www.fitability.com/pr.
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