Employee Reliability Inventory

The Employee Reliability Inventory (ERI®) is an online, 20-minute risk-management screening assessment designed to identify dependable, safe, and productive job applicants while flagging potential behavioral liabilities. This 81-item test evaluates candidates across seven different scales to help employers build objective selection guidelines and avoid costly hiring mistakes. Available in both English and Spanish, it provides hidden data about a candidate’s background and workplace risks that are typically missed during conventional structural interviews. (Note: This particular assessment is not designated as legal for use in Canada).

About this Test

Use the Employee Reliability Inventory to identify applicants who will be dependable, reliable and safe employees.

Use the Employee Reliability Inventory identifies candidates who will be safe, reliable and get the job done

The Employee Reliability Inventory is a risk management tool that helps you determine which individuals are most likely to become valued employees rather than organizational liabilities.  The Employee Reliability Inventory (ERI®) is a standardized, objective, and highly accurate assessment of candidate work behavior. The results provide crucial details about an applicant – details that are not otherwise available to you. The results specifically identify areas of possible job related behavior problems, and how to address each one. Based on the level of reliability and productivity you require for a given position, you can use the ERI® to help you construct behaviorally-based selection guidelines for that position.

High-risk employees can cost your business thousands of dollars. Reduce employee selection errors with this on-line assessment. The ERI will determine whether a candidate is low-risk or high-risk based on seven different scales.

What It’s Best Used For

  • Reducing Employee Turnover: Pinpointing applicants who naturally possess a high baseline of long-term job commitment.
  • Curbing Absenteeism and Slacking: Screening out individuals who frequently rely on unauthorized absences or fail to follow company protocols.
  • Mitigating Workplace Accidents: Evaluating safety conscientiousness to actively lower on-the-job injuries, property damage, and insurance claims.
  • Preventing Internal Theft: Identifying honest, trustworthy individuals to secure inventory and company finances.
  • Flagging Production Deviance: Minimizing major operational risks like asset damage, on-the-job substance use, or general workforce disruption.
  • Vetting Frontline Soft Skills: Assessing courtesy and emotional maturity to protect team synergy and customer relations.

Applications

Pre-screening candidates for employment

Benefits

Employee Reliability Inventory results are designed to assist you in reducing, Turnover, Absenteeism, Work-Related Accidents, Theft, and Production Deviance.

Note

The ERI does not offer a scale specific to Drug/Alcohol Avoidance.  It assesses that ‘generally’ as a part of Production Deviance, as follows:  Common examples of production deviance include failure to follow standard procedures, frequent unauthorized absences, coming to work intoxicated, on-the-job use of alcohol or illegal drugs, and a higher than average number of injuries and accidents.

Scales

  • Long-term job commitment
  • Safety
  • Trustworthiness
  • Conscientious job performance
  • Freedom from alcohol/substance abuse
  • Courtesy
  • Emotional maturity

81 Items
20 Min Administration

Now Available In Spanish

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