When Rembrandt Portrait is used as an integral part of your hiring and employee development process, it will prove to be invaluable, providing the important information you need to make effective personnel decisions. Used in combination with interviews, background checks, other selection processes and personal development plans, Rembrandt Portrait can substantially improve the quality of your staff and the performance of your firm.

Seven reasons companies rely on the power of Rembrandt Portrait:

1. Select the right person for the right position
2. Substantially reduce employee turnover
3. Increase employee productivity
4. Increase corporate performance
5. Target employee learning and development needs
6. Employee career management
7. Succession planning

What Does It Measure?

Rembrandt Portrait accurately measures 14 inherent qualities that make up the human personality. After a job candidate or current employee interacts with the program, our trained evaluators and customized reports can provide insights into over 50 competencies as they relate to the individual's job performance.

Rembrandt Portrait can easily assess these and many other competencies:
Ability to Focus / Ability to Prioritize Work and Time / Ability to Work Independently / Aggressiveness / Communication Skills / Decision Making / Dependability / Detail Handling Ability / Follow Through / Initiative / Innovation / Interpersonal Effectiveness / Judgment / Leadership Ability / Listening Ability / Personal Organization / Problem Solving / Sales and Closing Ability / Self-Confidence / Self-Discipline / Sense of Urgency / Service Motivation / Stress Tolerance / Willingness to Follow Process and Rules

Increase Employee Productivity

The cost of replacing an employee is often preceded by a slow drain on productivity. Rembrandt Portrait heightens your ability to recognize hidden productivity problems. It is designed to help you maximize your company's greatest resource - your people - by enabling you to more fully evaluate an individual's suitability to a job position and to target their development needs.

By matching the skills, knowledge and abilities of candidates, Rembrandt Portrait heightens your ability to recognize hidden productivity problems. It is designed to help you maximize your company's greatest resource - your people - by enabling you to more fully evaluate an individual's suitability to a job position and to target their development needs.

Only four years after developing a selection model and implementing Rembrandt Portrait, this national health care company saw individual sales representative production increase by $140,000 per person.

Increase Organizational Productivity

By using Rembrandt Portrait to help you make intelligent hiring decisions, your firm can significantly improve its performance. By matching the right person to the right position, you will remove barriers to success while putting teams of highly effective and productive people in place.

After conducting research to determine "what it takes to be a successful salesperson" for this health care company, a targeted selection model was developed. Results show that the closer a sales applicant matches the Rembrandt Portrait model, the more successful they are.

Scientifically Proven Accuracy

Because we are all unique, Rembrandt Portrait has been rigorously tested for accuracy, predictive ability, reliability and for any impact on protected classes of employees. While most firms undertake one form of study to validate their profiles, Rembrandt Portrait is validated using three established study methods, making it one of the most rigorously tested profiles available.

Phase One Validation
The first method used to measure Rembrandt Portrait's assessment capability was to compare the Rembrandt Portrait findings to those of known comparable assessments. This was done by the NeuroCommunications Research Laboratories in Danbury, Connecticut, using a matching cross-section of the U.S. population. Rembrandt Portrait withstood the scrutiny and proved to be more predictive and reliable than most other profiles of its kind.

Phase Two Validation
The second study method employed to validate Rembrandt Portrait was to assess 3,000 working individuals, again representing a matching cross-section of the U.S. population. Profile results proved to be 93% accurate in describing their personalities.

Phase Three Validation
This method of validation is perhaps the most important of all. Researchers secure performance ratings on individuals who are profiled pre-employment in a variety of industries and correlate Rembrandt Portrait findings to them. Depending on the industry studied, between 83% and 92% of recommended candidates rate as either "meets" or "exceeds" position requirements.

In all phases of validation, Rembrandt Portrait holds up as one of the most valid, reliable and predictive employee assessment tools ever created.

Rembrandt Portrait FAQ

Q: How does Rembrandt Portrait predict a candidate's on-the-job performance?

A: Rembrandt Portrait is a sophisticated online personality assessment tool that's carefully constructed to measure 14 inherent qualities that make up the human personality. Answering a series of psychologically revealing questions, your candidate actually creates a crystal-clear on-the-job "personality blueprint" in 20-40 minutes. Once interpreted by our analysts, we'll provide you with an in-depth report and phone consultation revealing how your candidate scored in over 50 job-performance competencies. The end-result is an eye-opening picture of exactly what to expect from your prospective employee… prior to extending an offer.

Imagine Knowing All This About Your Applicants
... Before You Hire Them

In as little as 20 minutes, Rembrandt Portrait measures these, and other job-critical competencies:
Ability to Focus Ability to Prioritize Work & Time Ability to Learn & Grow on the Job Ability to Work Independently Aggressiveness Communication Skills Critical Thinking Decision Making Delegating Ability Dependability Detail-Handling Ability Follow Through Initiative Innovation	Interpersonal Effectiveness Judgment Leadership Ability Listening Ability Motivation to Influence Personal Organization Problem Solving Sales/Closing Ability Self-Confidence Self-Discipline Sense of Urgency Service Motivation Stress Tolerance Willingness to Follow Process/Rules

Q: Can Rembrandt Portrait really help me select the best candidate for the job?

A: Absolutely! In an intensive study performed by Sir Stanley Weinstein, Ph.D, Chief Scientist at the NeuroCommunication Research Laboratories, Inc., Rembrandt Portrait was compared to other valid, time-tested personality inventories such as the Cattell 16 PF, The Edwards Inventory, The Gordon Profile, and The Psychological Assessment. Unlike some other assessments, Rembrandt Portrait's scales are independent from one another, making it an exceptionally reliable and stable assessment tool with the proven power to help you build a world-class workforce.

Q: What studies validate the effectiveness of the Rembrandt Portrait system?

A: In addition to the following two studies, our "Tech Manual" is filled with detailed research stats and easy-to-read charts validating the remarkable effectiveness of Rembrandt Portrait for both predicting on-the-job performance, and helping reduce employee turnover. Call us now at: 760-318-3710, Toll-Free: 800-292-7182, or click here for your copy.

Validation Study #1:
This study was conducted within a health care company employing 18,000 people and tracked the productivity of this firm's sales force over an eight-year period, spanning 1991 through 1998. From 1991 to 1994, the firm used conventional means to recruit, interview and select their sales representatives. During this time, individual sales productivity increased slightly, averaging 4% per year. In 1994 they added Rembrandt Portrait into their selection process. As shown by this graph, per-person productivity then soared, with a four-year increase in performance of 60%, or $140,000.00 increased performance per sales person.

Validation Study #2:
This study was conducted within the Northwest division of an insurance and financial services firm employing over 4,000 employees. This study tracked the performance of new employees for all positions over a 2-year period and quantifies employee performance by recommended group - those candidates identified as "job matched" and those identified as "not job matched."