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September, 2007 - St Petersburg Times Article

Dr. Doug Waldo recently was interviewed for a St. Petersburg Times article regarding the use of Personality Testing for employee selection. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/09/09/Working/Want_a_job_Pass_that_.shtml

August, 2007 – Dr. Amanda Evans presents “Characteristics of High Performing Financial/Credit Counselors”

Dr. Evans presented a workshop at the Financial Counseling Network’s Fall Conference on common characteristics shared by high performers. Having worked in the Financial/Credit Counseling Industry for years, Dr. Evans spoke about the importance of certain personality traits and their impact on performance. For more information about her presentation or the organization, please visit http://www.naccc.us/documents/SpeakerListwithLogo071907.pdf.

August, 2007 – CraftSystems’ Employees Adopt Children from Food for the Hungry

There are many ways to support this organization in providing disaster and emergency relief, and implementing sustainable development programs to transform communities physically and spiritually in more than 26 developing countries. Many CraftSystems employees have chosen to sponsor a child or donate money to help this organization put in place programs for long-term solutions like schools, churches, agriculture, water filtration in these places of great need. Please join us in promoting “Hope in Hard Places.”

August, 2007 - Dr. Amanda Evans and Dr. Doug Waldo present findings on selection and personality assessment

Dr. Amanda Evans, PHR and Dr. Doug Waldo, SPHR recently presented papers at the 31st Annual IPMAAC Conference on Personnel Assessment in St. Louis. IPMAAC (the IPMA-HR Assessment Council) is the leading organization of applied HR selection & assessment professionals with more than 600 members actively engaged in practice, research, and training to meet the needs of both public and private organizations. Drs. Evans and Waldo presented two papers, titled:

Implementing Selection Assessments in Small Organizations: It's a Small World After All!

Using Personality Assessments in Community Service Organizations: Breaking the Mold.

Additional presentations from the conference can be viewed by clicking on the link below.

http://www.ipmaac.org/conf/07/

August, 2007 - Dr. Amanda Evans and Dr. Doug Waldo to present findings at American Psychological Association Conference

Dr. Amanda Evans and Dr. Doug Waldo to present findings related to two studies at the American Psychological Association Conference, held on August 18, 2007 in San Francisco. The studies, conducted with research associates Matt Monnot and Kizzy Parks, include:

Quasi-Experimental Predictive Study of Typical and Maximum Job Performance, a quasi-experimental study of the differences in validity between cognitive ability and personality on the criteria of typical and maximum job performance. Results partially support the hypothesis that cognitive ability more strongly predicts maximum performance, while personality more strongly predicts typical performance.

Does Personality Moderate Cognitive Ability Scores? This study examined moderating relationships between personality and cognitive ability assessment perceptions and scores. Moderating relationships were found for two of the three personality traits (Skepticism and Detail-orientation).

Conference Link: http://www.apa.org/convention07/

For more information, please contact Dr. Amanda Evans at aevans@craftsystems.com.

July, 2007 - - CraftSystems Hosts Inaugural Blood Drive

CraftSystems is pleased to announce the results of our first blood drive on June 26th. We had 16 donors give enough blood to save 48 lives. The drive was so successful that our friends at Florida Blood Services asked if we would be interested in hosting another. The next drive is scheduled for October 17th. Please join us at our corporate headquarters in Bradenton, FL to “Give the gift of life.”

June, 2007 - CraftSystems partners with Harcourt Assessment, Inc.

For more information on the partnership with Harcourt Assessment, Inc., please click here.

May, 2007 - Jerry Donella to present at Sales Training Conference

Jerry Donella will represent CraftSystems at the Essentials for Sales Management Conference on May 7th in Oakbrook, IL. Jerry was invited to present due to his expertise in using the CPQ® to train and develop sales representatives. His session will be a train-the-trainer for sales managers who utilize the CPQ as part of the hiring process. The session will focus on how these managers can use the information that the tool provides on the “Basic Eight Traits” to more effectively manage and motivate their sales team.

April, 2007 – Nicole Lee joins the Association of Test Publishers Marketing Committee

Nicole Lee will be participating as a member of the 2007-2008 Association of Test Publishers Marketing Committee. This committee assists in the overall promotion of the annual conference, including the general design, mailings, website, e-marketing and more. Please join us in congratulating Nicole for her efforts to support our industry’s biggest conference.

April, 2007 - CraftSystems conducts annual legal review

Every year, CraftSystems contracts with an outside law firm to review our product/service offering to ensure the highest quality and protection for our clients. We do this annually to ensure that we stay abreast of the ever-changing legal environment when it comes to employment procedures. Once again, the firm concluded that the CPQ exceeds the compliance requirements of the Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures, and offers users a valid, reliable, and fair assessment.

CraftSystems will continue to strive for excellence in all that we do for our clients. Thank you for your interest and continued support!

March, 2007 - Dr. Doug Waldo and Dr. Amanda Evans have a paper accepted to IPMAAC

31st Annual Conference on Personnel Assessment in St. Louis June 10 - 13, 2007

Topic: Implementing Selection Assessments in Small Organizations: It’s A Small World After All

Moderate and large size organizations must screen hundreds, if not thousands of applicants to meet their hiring needs. Increasingly, organizations of all sizes are looking to selection assessments to help navigate a path to the most qualified candidates. In recent years, the widespread use of the Internet has made selection assessments more readily available to smaller organizations.

Over the years, federal, state, and local regulations have provided guidelines to ensure the proper use of selection assessments. Compliance with these guidelines often involves a substantial investment of time, expertise, and other resources from the organization. For the most part, compliance also means that a large sample of incumbents is required in order to prove job-relatedness and/or business necessity of the assessment.

However, the typical organization does not have hundreds of incumbents in a given position. In fact, most only hire once or twice per year for a given position. In 2003 there were approximately 4.38 million firms with less than 20 employees compared to only 637,288 firms with over 20 employees, and of those 637,288 firms, 515,056 had less than 100 employees (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007). Therefore, the typical US-based organization is very small in terms of the number of employees on staff. Thus, their HR stakeholders often shy away from selection assessments for fear they are “too small” to properly validate and implement the same assessments enjoyed by larger organizations.

One of the most prevalent challenges smaller organizations face is a “small sample size” for validating selection assessments using criterion-related methodology. Instead of abandoning these objective assessments in favor of subjective hiring decisions, this presentation will address methods smaller organizations have utilized to overcome the “small sample size” challenge. Case studies will be presented which highlight the challenge, solution, and outcome of validating and using selection assessments in small organizations.

February 2007 - Dr. Amanda Evans presents at the Association of Test Publishers Conference

Dr. Amanda Evans presented a poster session at the Association of Test Publishers Conference in Palm Springs this February. The study presented examined moderating relationships between personality and cognitive ability assessment perceptions and scores. At least 16% of employers in the U.S. utilize a cognitive ability measure for selection purposes. Even though selection measures have previously been found to significantly correlate with performance, other factors such as Skepticism and Detail-orientation can influence a candidate’s test score on a cognitive ability test. Little research has been conducted in this area to determine if an individual’s personality can moderate test scores and perceptions of testing. Using two cognitive ability measures, one personality scale, and a perception measure it was concluded that Skepticism and Detail-orientation moderated the relationship between cognitive ability assessment perceptions and cognitive ability scores.

For more information on this research, please click here to find the published paper or click here for the poster session attached.

December, 2006 - Wall Street Journal Article

CraftSystems’ research on candidate faking highlighted in a Wall Street Journal article on personality testing. http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116277960977814145.html

June, 2006 - Nicole Lee earns SPHR certification

Nicole Lee, one of CraftSystems' Consultants, recently earned her certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) from the Human Resources Certification Institute.

June, 2006 - Dr. Amanda Evans earns PHR certification

Dr. Amanda Evans, one of CraftSystems' Research Consultants, recently earned her certification as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) from the Human Resources Certification Institute. Dr. Evans joins the entire consulting staff of CraftSystems as certified consultants in the field of Human Resources Management.

June, 2005 - CraftSystems welcomes Amanda Evans

Amanda Evans joins CraftSystems as an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist, serving clients as a member of our consulting and research team. Amanda's expertise will benefit our clients in the areas of: 360-degree feedback, employee satisfaction surveys, job descriptions and the validation of selection procedures. Amanda expects to complete her PhD in August, 2005 at the Florida Institute of Technology.

May, 2005 - Nicole Lee earns PHR

Nicole Lee earns PHR designation as a Professional in Human Resources
from the Human Resources Certification Institute, signifying CraftSystems' continuing commitment to offering the most qualified consultants for our clients.

February, 2005 - CraftSystems welcomes John McLaughlin

John McLaughlin is a Business Analyst and Quality Assurance Analyst with CraftSystems, and works closely with corporate clients to implement customized solutions involving CraftSystems’ products and services.

John has over 10 years of Human Resources and Information Technology experience, having worked in Human Resources, Recruiting, and Technical roles in industries including Consulting, Telecom, Energy, and Defense.

John is a graduate of the University of South Florida, with an MS degree in Management Information Systems, and is a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).

December 2004 - CPQ En Espanol (and Mandarin and Thai)

CraftSystems is pleased to announce that their flagship assessment, the Craft Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) is now available in Spanish, Mandarin, and Thai. The addition of these languages is a major enhancement to CraftSystems' existing suite of products and services, and opens up the CPQ to exciting new possibilities. Please contact CraftSystems at 1-800-228-5866 for more information.

November 2004 - Server Upgrades

To better serve our clients, CraftSystems is proud to announce major hardware upgrades to our datacenter. CraftSystems currently operates from two redundant datacenters, and the new hardware provides even greater reliability for our clients.

July 2004 - Quickstart Leadership, by Dr. Larry Craft

Dr. Larry Craft's latest book - Quickstart Leadership