When you align professional passions with job-specific responsibilities your firm become better at talent acquisition, professional development, and succession planning. “Imagine a tool specifically made to help you find the talent you need—or to develop the resources you already have—to create the workforce you need to stay competitive, that’s Harrison Assessment,” says PSMJ’s Vickie Oakley.

Oakley will walk us through what exactly Harrison Assessment is, and isn’t. She will then explain the specifics of a tool that correlates the performance ratings of A/E Project Managers—working engineers and architects managing significant projects—with proven work-related traits to produce reliable outcomes. With Oakley we will explore:

What Harrison Assessments measure and how the tool works

The relationship between doing what you love and job success

How Harrison Assessments differ from other personality tests

Last year, PSMJ introduced the Harrison Assessment tool for A/E Project Manager. Oakley now covers what firms can gain by adding it to their recruitment and retainment toolbox. In this live, one-hour podcast, you will learn:

- Why intuition and going-with-your gut won’t cut it any more when it comes to finding great A/E Project Managers

- How assessments can help you avoid costly development decisions—or at least move into situations with eyes wide open

- How firms use the tool to help current project manager grow and train—specific results help the process

- What leadership needs to know about the Harrison Assessment—It’s not just an HR tool

Harrison Assessments currently offer 6,500 preconfigured JSFs, but the A/E Project Manager assessment gives firm leaders the insightfulness of the Harrison Assessment Performance Benchmarking methodology combined with the specific performance ratings of PMs that excel in the A/E environment.

About the Presenter:

Vickie Oakley is a consultant with more than 30 years of experience in human resources. Her experience includes work in the areas of compensation, training and development, benefits, and recruiting. She has 11 eleven years as the Director of Human Resources for a 136-person, engineering/environmental consulting firm. Prior to her consulting experience, Vickie worked in the utility industry specializing in compensation and recruitment. Vickie received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology, her master’s degree in human resource management and development from Troy University, and her doctorate degree in spiritual development and counseling from Covington Theological Seminary, Chattanooga, TN. She completed Dale Carnegie Training Course and worked as a Class Coach with Dale Carnegie. Vickie is a Gallup Certified Strengths’ Coach, Certified Harrison Consultant, Certified Myers Briggs Practitioner, and a Certified Neuro Linguistics Practitioner.