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The Customer Service Applicant Inventory is designed for entry-level, customer service positions and identify candidates with strong attitudes toward customer service.   Before you invest the time and money to train a new employee, test your applicants for skills like:

• Customer Service
• Team Work
• Communication
• Honesty
• Stress Tolerance

This test provides the answers you need to make informed hiring and promotion decisions.

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The Customer Service Applicant Inventory (CSAI) is designed to help you determine whether a candidate has strong attitudes toward customer service that can lead to an increase in team effectiveness, service quality and performance. It is designed for entry-level, customer service positions. This test is not timed and takes approximately 50 minutes.

The Customer Service Applicant Inventory measures the following scales:

Customer Service: Courteous, cooperative and friendly attitudes toward customers as well as basic sales techniques.

Teamwork: Cooperative work efforts and behaviours.

Communication: Willingness and ability to communicate effectively in groups or individual situations.

Stress Tolerance: The extent to which a candidate copes with stress.

Honesty: Whether or not a candidate will engage in theft or theft-related behaviour.

Drug Avoidance: Using or selling illicit drugs on the job.

Safety: The level of safety consciousness and the likelihood that the candidate will be a safety risk.

Training Readiness: Desire to learn and overall trainability.

Applied Math: Basic mathematical ability as it relates to multiplying, counting money and making change.

Employability Index: A reference to the overall suitability for hire.

Validity/Candidness: Indicates the extent to which a candidate responds to the assessment in a socially desirable manner.

Validity/Accuracy: Indicates the degree to which the applicant understood and carefully completed the inventory.

This assessment was originally a part of the Science Research Associates (SRA), assessment lineup, a subsidy of IBM. The ownership then changed as follows over the years and became London House, then Reid London House, then Pearson Reid London House, then Vangent, then General Dynamics IT, and finally Fifth Theory.

This, and other related assessments, went off market around 2018 and is no longer being published or available for purchase.