Select International Takes to the Open Road, Providing New Driver Assessment Solution to the Trucking Industry

Business Wire, Sept 29, 2008

Global Provider of Assessment Solutions to Showcase Capabilities at Upcoming ATA Management Conference & Exhibition, Oct. 4-7

PITTSBURGH -- Select International, a global provider of expert systems that include assessment products, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), and talent transformation strategies, is applying its expertise to the transportation industry with the introduction of RoadWorthy, a remote assessment that provides intelligent decision support for driver selection. This tool draws upon the company's comprehensive library of validated selection data and is designed specifically to assess commercial driver candidates across a range of attributes known to be crucial to safety, reliability and performance. Select International will conduct an official product rollout at The American Trucking Associations (ATA) Management Conference and Exhibition, scheduled for October 4 through 7 in New Orleans, LA.

"Our goal in introducing RoadWorthy is to help transportation companies hire safe and competent drivers and seat them in a revenue-producing truck quickly and efficiently. With this in mind, RoadWorthy is extremely effective at identifying and eliminating candidates with risk-prone behaviors," said Dr. Matt O'Connell, executive vice president and co-founder of Select International, who will represent Select at the ATA Conference.

Leading this product launch and joining Dr. O'Connell at the conference is Glynn Spangenberg, senior vice president of Select International, who has nearly 25 years of executive business operations experience in the transportation and logistics industry. Prior to joining Select, Spangenberg served as vice president and general manager at Qualcomm, where he led the successful launch of MediaFLO USA.

In developing RoadWorthy, Select International has also drawn upon the expertise of Winfred Arthur, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Industrial & Organizational Psychology at Texas A&M University and a recognized industry expert on human safety factors.

"The trucking industry has been experiencing a profound shortage of truck drivers. The industry is tapping into a pool of nontraditional candidates like never before, and assessing them to evaluate risk factors is more crucial than ever," said Arthur. "Transport carriers urgently need to seat drivers, but making unsound hiring decisions will lead to poor economic performance and sometimes catastrophic consequences for both the carrier and the public at large. Assessing commercial driver candidates prior to employment can lead to dramatic improvements in both safety and performance. It is just that predictable."

Select International's RoadWorthy is a predictive analysis tool that transportation carriers can deploy when they are considering candidates for driver positions. The assessment captures important psychometric information about a candidate's attributes, including driving habits, risk assessment capabilities and other key competencies necessary to performing as a safe, reliable and efficient commercial driver. RoadWorthy then collates the applicant's response data and provides the trucking firm with a recommendation on whether the candidate should progress to the next stage of the selection process. In this way, RoadWorthy is poised to assist trucking companies who want to reduce turnover and further ensure they are hiring safe driver candidates. The solution is capable of assessing many different types of drivers - long-haul, short-haul and delivery drivers.

While RoadWorthy is a Web-based assessment, applicants without computer access will be able to use a telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) system, which is currently being developed by Select.

About Select International

Founded in 1993, Select International is a leading provider of selection and development solutions for Global 2000 companies. Select International helps organizations find, hire and retain talent. Select offers unparalleled accuracy through the use of its assessment products, hiring solutions and recruiting services, enabling companies to transform their talent acquisition strategies. The company's founders, Kevin Klinvex, Chris Klinvex and Matthew O'Connell, Ph.D., are renowned hiring consultants and authors of the best-selling business book, Hiring Great People. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Select maintains offices in Dallas, San Diego, Toronto, London and South Africa. The company has assessed millions of people in more than 80 countries. For more information about Select International's products or services, call 1-800-786-8595 or visit www.selectinternational.com.