Resume builder online

Wilson and Horton announces...

Auckland human resource software house Selector Group has formed a partnership with Wilson and Horton to put its psychometric assessment and resume-building tools on the employment section of the Herald web site.

The Selector eProfiler test takes about 30 minutes, and will be free of charge for the next week. After that, members of the public can pay $49.95 to build a personal online profile for their resumes or to help with career planning.

The resume builder will remain free.

The main target for Selector eProfiler will be recruitment agencies. Selector group chief executive Jon Vincent says SelectorPA author Keith McGregor wrote Profiler as an online tool earlier this year and the company then sought a suitable partner.

"One of the reasons we picked the Herald was to retain neutrality. Selector eProfiler is a resource for employers, recruiters and job seekers. We are just a provider of technologies," Mr Vincent says.

While online job recruitment sites are proliferating, newspapers are holding their own because they drive traffic to their sites.

"The Internet is not targeted. The only way to drag someone there is to use the printed word or other media," says Mr Vincent.

SelectorPA was developed by Mr McGregor, an industrial psychologist, as a PC-based assessment tool for use by people who have been trained to interpret the results.

It can test for up to 99 factors, including alcohol and drug use, medical conditions and the ability to handle stress.

The program generates an encrypted report which is unscrambled on payment to Selector of $200. It is used not only for recruitment but for team building and career planning.

Selector eProfiler, on the other hand, tests for 26 factors - six on abilities such as literacy, numeracy and basic comprehension plus 20 behavioural factors.

The idea, Mr Vincent says, was to create an online tool standardised to Australia and New Zealand norms.

It is aimed at people who want some insight into their personality as well as at businesses which want to use it as a tool, he says.

"HR people have held psychometric testing out as the holy grail to which access is restricted. This gives the public access to a tool realistically they should have access to."

He says organisations are increasingly wanting to match the behaviour of individuals as well as their core competencies to the job.

"A receptionist will need the same core competencies to work in a law or accounting firm as in an advertising agency, but the company cultures will be completely different."

Selector is also providing a specialised search engine for myjob.co.nz.

Links:

myjob.co.nz