Finding the right fit: pre-employment testing will not only help you find the best job candidate, but also save on HR costs.(Staffing)

Inside Business, February, 2005 by Lewis, Morgan, Jr.

When pool table and game room equipment retailer Danny Vegh's opened its Mayfield Heights store, it wanted to find the best managers to staff the chain's third location.

The company's vice president of operations, Kathy Vegh, was faced with the challenge of sorting through dozens of applications, plus interviewing her 36 employees to see who would be best suited to make the move.

"I wanted to know what the qualities of my people were so I could enhance those positives and help them with their liabilities," Vegh says. "If I have 10 quality people that I'm looking at and five of them happen to fit into the right mold, I would be more prone to hiring those five people mainly because their makeup has already proven to work."

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