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About Us
Our History and Background
MPS is an assessment firm specializing in employee selection and development. Founded by Richard C. Joines in 1980, MPS has carved out a unique niche within the I/O Psychology Consulting community. At MPS, we rent simulation tests and assessment exercises to our clients. Our clients administer the exercises according to our instructions, but then send everything to us for scoring and reporting.
Thus, when a client uses our services, there is no need to obtain and train assessors. Research comparing the reliability and validity of scoring by professional assessors vs. the traditional approach of using occupational managers is very supportive of our approach. Professional assessors are better, pure and simple.
Think of it this way: when the traditional assessment company trains occupational managers to serve as assessors in scoring an in-basket, the occupational managers are lucky to get three or four hours of training. Our professional assessors start with 80 hours of training, followed by close supervision until they are truly expert in the scoring process.
Our General Management In-Basket (GMIB) is the most widely-used managerial assessment test in existence. The GMIB solved many of the problems associated with traditional in-baskets, such as unreliability in scoring and subjective rating criteria. The GMIB has been used across the U.S. and Canada. It is backed by over 50 research studies that investigated its validity and reliability. It is the only in-basket ever included in Buros’ Mental Measurements Yearbook (12th edition, 1995). The GMIB is the premier instrument for selecting managers. It is also a powerful tool for evaluating a manager’s developmental needs.
In addition to the GMIB, MPS has a full range of written and oral assessment exercises. In all cases, our clients administer the exercises and ship the completed products (written or videotaped) to us for scoring and evaluation.
Our Mission and Values
Our mission is to provide comprehensive, defensible assessments that identify superior individuals. In our 25 year history, we have never had an exam overturned by a candidate challenge. Our goal is to maintain our perfect track record.
We are a client-centered firm. We do everything possible to ensure that each and every exam we conduct meets with the approval and satisfaction of our client.
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