• Selection—Choosing Tomorrow’s High-Impact Talent Today

    When it comes to recruiting and hiring, are you counting on luck to make the right decisions? Do you know how to choose the best person for the job today and the person who will move up in your company tomorrow?

    One of the most important decisions your company makes is who it hires. Nothing challenges success more or impacts it greater. With PDI’s research-based assessments and objective decision-making tools, you’ll have the confidence to know your talent decisions are consistent and right…every time.

    Your Partner in More Accurate Selection
  • With PDI, you’ll partner with our consultants and gain tools to make consistent, accurate and more objective selection decisions.

    • Make legally defensible talent decisions, minimizing risk.
    • Cut hiring costs and reduce turnover.
    • Increase recruiting and hiring accuracy and productivity.
    • Know where your talent's untapped potential is.
    • Understand which competencies your talent really needs in order to achieve—and sustain—the market impact you're looking for.
    • Recruit and hire top talent faster and keep them longer.

    Pioneering Tools for Superior Talent Decisions


    For 40 years our clients have experienced the benefits of using our breakthrough assessment services. Our clients continually inspire us to build on the proven methods we’ve pioneered in the industry—giving you access to some of today’s most advanced talent management thinking.


    We know it’s people who make business succeed. With PDI, you’ll achieve high quality recruiting and selection results that impact your bottom line and keep you moving forward.

Thought Leadership

Gut Is Out, Simulation Is In 
by Dave Heine, Ph.D.

It’s a hectic day in the life of an executive. First comes a national television news interview to explain a drop in earnings. Next is a meeting with the head of a recent acquisition. After that, she addresses the board on her long-term vision for the company. All in a day’s work? Actually, it’s all a simulation to help gauge how well she will perform if hired for the position. Increasingly, organizations are turning to the use of simulation based assessments to help make critical hiring and promotion decisions.

Apples to Apples

Chief executives recognize that when it comes to evaluating candidates for key positions, it is difficult to make accurate, “apples to apples” comparisons, given all the potential variables involved. And the process of evaluating candidates is rife with subjectivity and potential for error. When both internal and external candidates are involved, bias, hunch and gut instincts become a significant factor.

Research from Personnel Decisions International (PDI) shows that in up to 60 percent of cases, leaders have divergent views about someone’s qualifications. Read more