Unicru and Brainbench Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Assessments for Prospective Employees.Business EditorsPORTLAND, Ore. & CHANTILLY, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004 Industry leaders to provide a spectrum of assessment technology for hiring the highest quality workforce Unicru(R) Inc. and Brainbench(TM), the global leader in online skills measurement, today announced a partnership to integrate the Brainbench suite of skills assessments with Unicru's Total Workforce Acquisition solution. Focused on helping its customers find and hire the highest quality candidates, the Brainbench-Unicru partnership improves the candidate pipeline, accelerates the hiring process and optimizes a candidate's time to productivity. The partnership delivers these benefits by providing objective measurement of the candidate and their skills through Unicru's talent management platform, ensuring that employers hire those candidates who truly are the best fit. "Using a variety of assessments to determine a candidate's job fit is a recommended approach for finding and hiring the right person for the right job," said Unicru CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Chris Marsh Christopher "Chris" Marsh (born 14 January 1970), was a British footballer who is best remembered for his time with Walsall football club. He signed from them on leaving school in the summer of 1986 and quickly established himself in the first team. . "For this reason, we are excited to marry Brainbench's deep breadth of skills tests with our work and job preference assessments within the Unicru Salaried Solution, to give market-leading enterprises a variety of resources to repeatedly make the best hires, leading to a strategic market advantage." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mike Russiello, CEO of Brainbench, "The Bureau of Labor statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) A research agency of the U.S. Department of Labor; it compiles statistics on hours of work, average hourly earnings, employment and unemployment, consumer prices and many other variables. reports: two of three new hires will disappoint in the first year and 95 of 100 applicants will 'exaggerate' to get a job. For this reason, it is important that companies select and invest in the right candidates from the start for their company's success. The Unicru-Brainbench partnership allows companies to do just this, by providing them with objective measurement of the job candidates' knowledge and aptitudes, helping employers identify those candidates with the best possible fit into their organizations." With this partnership, the two companies have integrated Brainbench skills tests into the Unicru candidate experience, providing job candidates with short skills tests based upon a self-assessment of their expertise within an industry. For example, when applying for an advanced tax accountant position, candidates will be presented with skill-based questions directly related to tax returns preparation. Recently named a top ten product of the year by HR Executive Magazine, Unicru's Salaried Solution is the culmination of three years of research and engineering around best practices and innovative technologies in the recruitment and selection of salaried workers. The leading provider of Total Workforce Acquisition solutions, Unicru incorporates advanced selection science and workforce intelligence capabilities to enable companies to achieve meaningful and measurable improvements in business results through the attraction, hiring and retention of world class employees. The Brainbench library includes assessments covering over 450 skills across all facets of operation, from IT to administration, management, and industry knowledge. Online delivery enables candidates to take skills assessment at any time, from any location. In addition, the results detail the strengths and weaknesses of the candidate's skills and are immediately available eliminating weeks of grading and scoring associated with manual assessment processes. About Unicru Unicru is the leading provider of Total Workforce Acquisition solutions that enable enterprises to systematically select the highest quality employees across job roles throughout the enterprise to positively impact corporate outcomes through workforce initiatives. Unicru combines scientifically-proven employee selection assessments, applicant recruitment, hiring management decision support, and complete data capture for measurement and continuous improvement of business results for over 60 enterprises including Albertsons, Universal Studios, Blockbuster, Marriott, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , Kroger, and Southeastern Freightlines. For more information, visit www.unicru.com. About Brainbench With more than 4.7 million registered users and over 450 different skill tests, Brainbench pioneered online skills testing to measure the skills of employees and consultants that are crucial to a company's bottom-line success. Utilizing the largest ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001-2000 library of tests, companies rely on Brainbench to help them measure, track, and improve their employees' vital professional skills, with online skills measurement solutions that improve retention, training success, customer satisfaction, and profitability. Corporate customers include Wells Fargo, Key Bank, TEKsystems, Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , H&R Block, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. , Manpower, Qwest, TAC 1. TAC - Translator Assembler-Compiler. For Philco 2000. 2. TAC - Terminal Access Controller. Worldwide, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM See Oracle Process Manufacturing. ), NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , and Verizon. Strategic Investors include Manpower and Thomson Corporation. For more information visit www.brainbench.com. Unicru is a registered trademark of Unicru, Inc. |
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