PHD has been researching, developing and applying innovative, quantitative solutions for hiring, succession planning and performance improvement for more than 12 years. PHD operates in the assessment marketplace, but is easily distinguished from nearly all companies in this space by providing client organizations with the means to develop customized, competency/performance models, or benchmarks, for almost any position and a variety of applications: e.g., applicant pre-screening, selection confirmation, succession planning, turnover reduction, performance improvement, risk management, performance tracking and employee career development.

PHD recognizes that most organizations have unique employee or performance requirements. Many take great pains to build a distinctive, best-in-class workforce. We strongly believe, therefore, that generic, one-size-fits-all assessment approaches cannot possibly address an organization's unique concerns, nor provide it with tools offering the highest predictive accuracy possible. Many established assessment companies seek to convey credibility through their possession of decades-old normative databases containing millions of survey respondents. While such tools may sound impressive, they may be of little relevance to organizations with specific hiring and performance concerns. When relevance is questionable, the predictive accuracy of assessments will be limited. Accuracy will also be compromised if a tool's predictors are not linked in any way with important, company-specific job or performance outcomes.

PHD's tools and benchmarking approach are designed to be 100% relevant to an organization's hiring and performance improvement needs. Benchmarks are created by surveying actual employees in a position targeted for improvement. Behavioral and other relevant competency data are then linked directly to specific performance outcomes or standards specified by the organization. In addition, an organization may have the predictive accuracy of its benchmarks validated before use which also permits a calculation of expected ROI.

PHD's use of actual client workforce data and its ability to customize hiring solutions for specific and unique concerns assures clients that they are using one of the most statistically accurate, fair, evidence-based and legally defensible tools currenly available. PHD hiring and performance management solutions are used by very small organizations to very large, Fortune 1000 firms. Company-specific applications have been developed for nearly all major industries.