PXT Select®
Make Talent Decisions With Confidence—Every Time
No one likes facing the consequences that could jeopardize their organization’s success. Fortunately, you don’t have to take that risk. The PXT Select® assessment provides your organization with objective, reliable, and precise data, empowering you to hire, manage, and retain top-performing employees with confidence. By placing the right people in the right roles and fostering their development, your organization can cultivate and engage a high-performing workforce that delivers results.
What Is the PXT Select® Assessment
The PXT Select assessment is a comprehensive "whole person" evaluation that measures how well an individual aligns with specific roles within an organization by assessing their Cognitive Ability, Behavioral Traits, and Interests. Its job-matching feature allows organizations to compare an individual’s attributes with the key qualities needed for success in a particular role.
PXT Select Helps You:
- Streamline your hiring and selection process
- Prevent expensive hiring errors
- Enhance employee satisfaction, performance, and retention
- Identify talent gaps and maximize employee strengths
- Support managers in coaching and onboarding employees
How Does PXT Work?
Before evaluating candidates, our team of experts assists in creating performance models tailored to your job openings. These performance models serve as benchmarks to measure how well individuals fit specific roles. After establishing the performance model, candidates receive an online assessment link from the HR administrator or hiring manager. They can complete the assessment independently from any internet-enabled device, without the need for supervision. The system instantly evaluates the results and forwards the necessary reports to the hiring manager. PXT Select offers the manager access to 13 comprehensive reports that facilitate various processes, including hiring, onboarding, leadership development, coaching, and succession planning.
• The full view of a person. It measures Thinking Style (numerical and verbal reasoning and skill), Behavioral Traits, and Interests
• With the use of our extensive library and the help of a PXT Select expert, the manager completes a performance model
• Candidates receive a request to take the online assessment
• Assessment results are scored and benchmarked against the performance model to evaluate the degree of Job-Person Fit
• The manager receives the results in a convenient suite of 13 reports
Approximately 60 minutes. No proctoring or supervising required.
• Comprehensive Selection Report
• Performance Model Report
• Leadership Report
• Multiple Positions Report
• Multiple Candidates Report
• Manager-Employee Report
• Individual’s Graph
• Individual’s Report
• Coaching Report
• Team Report
• Sales: Comprehensive Report
• Sales: Coaching Report
• Sales: Individual Feedback Report
• Job placement, promotion fit, team fit
• Coaching and skills development
• Leadership development
• Development of job descriptions and performance models
Develop job performance models by:
• Company
• Position
• Manager
• Geography
Assessment Measurements
PXT Select measures the full view of a person, including thinking style, behavioral traits, and interests.
Thinking Style
Cognitive ability is the top predictor of job success and defines how an individual processes information, solves problems, communicates, and learns. Discover how a candidate will utilize and interpret verbal and numerical data to overcome the challenges of the role.
Behavioral Traits
This segment of the assessment evaluates a person’s main tendencies, preferences, and behaviors in the workplace. For instance, it can reveal whether a candidate is more inclined to be cooperative and follow rules or if they prefer to set their own direction and work independently.
Interests
This portion is designed to predict how motivated and satisfied a candidate might be in a particular role. When their interests align closely with the job’s demands, they are likely to find greater enjoyment in their work. This is essential, as people who are happy in their jobs are generally more productive, effective, and engaged.
Sample Reports
Below you will find sample reports from various Performance Models, designed and fitted based on Nexstar classes. We offer a wide selection of models to meet diverse needs and preferences, ensuring you find the perfect fit. If you can't find a Performance Model that suits your specific requirements, we are more than happy to create a custom model tailored just for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand there’s a lot of information to take in, and we’re here to help! That’s why we’ve put together this FAQ section with answers directly from our publisher. We hope this helps address any concerns you might have. If you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re happy to help!
Over the past 30 years, we have found this not to be the case. Using assessments as part of the process typically signals to good candidates that you take selection and development seriously and that your company has a structured and systematic approach, which can also help reduce hiring bias.
At PXT Select®, our assessments go through extensive validation to assure our clients we measure exactly what we intend to measure and do so consistently. By using our personality assessments, you have a time-tested, reliable resource to help you make better decisions concerning new hires and the development of people at your organization. Helping you and your organization make better personnel decisions, reduce hiring mistakes, improve management effectiveness, and increase workforce productivity, engagement, and satisfaction.
You will also find that, over time, our assessments give you a common language and objective data to manage talent more strategically. When you use our assessments, you will have measurable, quantitative data that has a return on investment. This ROI is proven when you track the areas impacted when you use our assessments (i.e., lower training costs, better onboarding programs, stronger employee-manager relations, reduced turnover, etc.). As a result, YOU can have a significant, measurable influence on the hiring and selection processes, the organization’s wellbeing, and the bottom line.
Our assessments can help you gain a deeper understanding of employees:
- Typical behaviors
- Problem-solving approaches
- Learning styles
- Communication preferences
- Current strengths
- Possible challenges
With this objective information, you can define training programs and tackle development needs to effectively onboard, coach, develop, and motivate your people. Our reports provide managers with clear recommendations to maximize the employee’s contribution to the organization.
Our assessments help you make better personnel decisions related to hiring and selection, promotions, team building, and succession planning. Some of our benefits include:
- Saving time by streamlining the process and providing a consistent approach
- Avoiding costly hiring mistakes
- Reducing hiring bias
- Identifying and developing talent
- Improving managing, motivating, and engaging employees
Our assessments enable you to uncover objective information about your candidates’ and employees’ personalities, behaviors, interests, and abilities. This insight helps you quickly screen out unsuitable candidates and match others with jobs that fit their inherent capabilities. It also helps you understand strengths and limitations for successful onboarding and identifies opportunities to enhance performance and maximize long-term contribution to your organization and team.
When you hire a candidate who is the best fit for the job (hire for job fit), you increase their chances of being successful and feeling satisfied in that role. This translates into a sense of engagement and wanting to stay with your organization for a longer time. Our products help you translate the job description into specific behaviors and traits. When you assess a candidate with our tools and compare them to that specific role, you can determine how well they will fit in that role—the better they fit, the less turnover you will have.
The assessments also identify areas where candidates need to be developed and coached and provide insight to help both the manager and the new hire build good, productive relationships.
Our system also offers functions that allow you to track the number of people assessed for a particular job, the number of hires, and the ability to compare that to your KPIs before using the assessment. Our team is ready to help you prove the value!
Although most of our products focus on hiring and selection and are validated for that, they also provide you with versatile information that can be used for coaching and development.
Our assessments can be used for many different purposes in an organization, and we recommend that you take full advantage of the reports and job matching capabilities.
Yes. We take the science behind our assessments very seriously and invest heavily to do so. We employ a team of full-time psychologists and psychometricians who conduct ongoing research and development to ensure our assessment instruments exceed all employment assessment guidelines. Our assessments exceed the thirteen requirements set by the Department of Labor for assessments and meet all the EEOC, ADA, DOL, and Civil Rights Act requirements. The assessments are also continually monitored to ensure no gender, age, or ethnic bias. Our assessments are reliable and valid based on rigorous scientific standards.
Questions? We are here to help!
Our Promise To You
We will always fill your order quickly, you will receive your online products within a few minutes (if not instantly), and we’re happy to take rush orders for physical products!
