Volume 4 Issue 2





Webinar: The Impact of Better Hires in Dollars and Sense
June 11, 2009
1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Talent Management Executive Forum
June 18, 2009
Bethesda, MD

CIPD Recruitment and Retention Conference 2009
June 18 - 19, 2009
Olympia, London

Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) Annual Conference 2009
July 5 - 7, 2009
Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales

Onrec 2008 Award

PreVisor’s Retail Solutions – A Real Impact on Retail Metrics

In these tough economic times, retailers are facing more hiring challenges than ever before. With sales being the life-blood of a retail organization’s success, it is critical for organizations to hire the best candidates for the job. Retailers cannot afford to have a sales force that lacks product knowledge, a motivation to sell, or has poor selling skills.

In addition, the retail industry typically has higher turnover rates than other industries. With strong competition between job seekers in the current labor market, it is no longer a viable option for candidates or employers to have a candidate come in and take a paper/pencil version of a test, both from a time and cost perspective. In addition to time and cost, it is extremely difficult to provide the candidate with a realistic preview of the position or a sense of the retail brand with a traditional assessment.

So how is it that with these current challenges, retail organizations have been seeing successes such as:

  • $30 million increase in annual retail sales
  • Profit increase of 8%
  • Annual sales increase of potentially $137 million
  • $78 million reduction in shrinkage

Over the years, PreVisor has helped thousands of retail organizations, including 11 of the top 20 U.S. retailers, improve their metrics through the successful implementation of a hiring program including pre-employment assessment solutions. From Advance Auto Parts to Sunglass Hut, retailers have seen a measurable return on their hiring investment including significant increases in sales, a reduction in employee turnover, reduction in shrinkage, improvement in customer satisfaction, and increase in profits.

PreVisor’s point and click, web-based platform makes it easy for retailers to quickly and easily administer tests over the internet. PreVisor online assessment solutions are designed to be highly predictive of job success while also giving candidates a realistic job preview with industry/job previews and simulation functionality. With instant scoring, candidates are stack-ranked into easy-to-interpret reports. Not only does this save both time and money, but it also provides retailers with the most innovative capabilities for objectively assessing and selecting top talent.

While PreVisor has been offering a variety of retail solutions for several years, we are especially excited to introduce our new Retail Suite. PreVisor’s Retail Suite will provide full access to pre-packaged job solutions from entry-level to managerial-level roles, specifically designed to help retailers hire the best employees to meet customer needs.

Job titles in the Retail Suite include:

  • Retail Sales Associate
  • Retail Consultant
  • Technical Sales Associate
  • Cashier
  • Stock Clerk
  • Retail Manager w/Sales
  • Retail Manager
  • District/Regional Manager

To find out more about PreVisor’s retail solutions including our upcoming Retail Suite, contact us online or call 800.367.2509.