| SolutionWerx and its CTO, George Longmire, were honored with a Technology Solution Excellence Award at the NMTC Fourth Annual TechEx Awards Banquet for the development of the Essentials Employment Experience and Happiness Begins at Work. Rick Breden, founder of the Essentials Method and Behavioral Expert for The Daily Buzz, sought a way to automate the Essentials Employment Experience (E3) so that he could offer his behavioral assessment online and to the general public. The Essentials Employment Experience is based off an established personality evaluation tool called the Adjective Checklist which has been in use since 1952 and is one of the most frequently used and cited tests in psychology. Mr. Breden’s technical challenge was to update the test and behavioral scales to fit 21st Century Americans, and to find a way to administer the test via the Internet, produce immediate results and email results in PDF format to clients. Furthermore, Mr. Breden needed a way to brand his assessment tool for the general public so individuals can learn more about their own personality traits, in hopes of finding happiness at work; and also to brand it for the numerous companies who use his tool as a means to matching the psychology and behavior of an employee candidate to the requirements of a job and the culture of a company. Mr. Breden branded his assessment for private corporations as a hiring tool called “the Essentials Employment Experience”; and for the general public and markets it as "Happiness Begins at Work" on the cable news The Daily Buzz. The software solution that drives both the Essentials Employment Experience and Happiness Begins At Work was developed by SolutionWerx using a combination of Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft Reporting Services and a website driven by ASP.NET v.3.5. The assessment adjectives are presented to a user via an online web page and when the user clicks submit after checking those adjectives that best describe him or her, complex calculations are used to determine validity of test scores and individual ranking in over 22 scales, such as proactivity, dominance, exhibition, aggression, and more. The user’s scores on the personality scales that are considered above and below the mean, and areas for growth, are dynamically compiled into a report and sent to the user in PDF format. Another report includes a line diagram where scores for all personality scales are plotted against the mean, providing a graphical representation of how a user compares to the “average” population. The value provided to an individual is that they receive very descriptive detail about their own personality traits - the good traits and those areas of their personality that might need some work; and most importantly it helps them determine what type of environment they fit best in. The value provided to a company who uses the assessment as a hiring tool is the immediate elimination of people who do not fit within the corporate culture. Company executives learn things about their applicants such as what drives them; whether they prefer to work alone or with a team; whether they are quiet or outspoken; or whether they may be overly aggressive, or quiet and subdued. Benefits to all users is truly the means to find happiness at work, at home and in all other circles and organizations to which they belong. Learn more about HB@W and The Essentials Employment Experience at http://www.happinessbeginsatwork.com/TheBuzz.aspx and http://www.essentialsllc.com |