DeGarmo Group Unveils Innovative Assessment for Custom Personality Profiling and Dynamic Interview Generation: DeGarmo Personality Inventory (DPI)

BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DeGarmo Group, a global provider of talent acquisition solutions, today announced the release of the DeGarmo Personality Inventory (DPI). The DPI advances the science of personality assessment by enabling organizations to create and use custom personality profiles for every occupation, and supports dynamic interview production based on assessment data.

Talent acquisition professionals understand that the goal of the hiring process is to find candidates who best align with the unique demands and requirements of a specific job.  To that end, DeGarmo Group offers occupation-specific profiling for the DPI at no additional cost. The solution leverages two primary options for creating custom profiles. Organizations can quickly and efficiently collect survey data from SMEs using the DeGarmo Personality Requirements Form (DPRF), or they can use standard occupation data from the US Department of Labor's O*NET database.

According to Anthony Adorno, Chief Operating Officer for DeGarmo Group, "Historically, personality assessments have provided general information about a person; but not relative to the specific personality requirements of a job." The DPI advances personality assessment by weighting personality information differently based on how important it is to job performance. "By integrating our job analysis and assessment systems, we're able to provide a flexible, intelligent, and highly customizable solution for organizations that is appropriate for talent acquisition in all occupations, at every level," said Adorno.

The DPI solution supports profiling job candidates across several occupations at once to help organizations better align talent with available positions. That is, through "comparison reporting" a hiring manager can easily tell which of several occupations an applicant aligns with the best. Once a DPI assessment has been completed, organizations can generate compatibility reports for any available occupation for that candidate, as well as for subscales such as leadership potential.

Dynamic interview content generation based on DPI assessment data is the final component of the DPI solution. Based on DPI assessment data, organizations can streamline the interview process to focus on specific personality characteristics critical to job performance.

DeGarmo Group has scheduled a one-hour introductory webcast to overview the DPI solution on March 15th at 1pm eastern. Register online at www.degarmogroup.com.

For more information about the DeGarmo Personality Inventory (DPI), or other innovative talent acquisition solutions, visit www.degarmogroup.com or call toll-free (866) 433-4276.

SOURCE DeGarmo Group