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Updates:
December 2008:
Study proves that Managers rarely understand the Success Factors of their employee
November 2008:
Perhaps if I starve the patient
that will make them stronger
October 2008:
Developing Courageous Leaders
September 2008:
Low Cost Employee Perks that won't punish your bottom line
August 2008:
Lessons of the Square Watermelon
July 2008:
Maybe you should ask your employees!
June 2008:
Why is JobFit so important?
May 2008:
Career Coach for Students/Executives
About Profiles International
Profiles International is the recognised world leader in employment evaluation and human resource management tools.
At Profiles International we seek to solve your employee related challenges. Whether you are looking to reduce employee turnover, provide leadership training and development, decrease employee theft, increase productivity and customer service levels, improve employee motivation or increase sales, we have the employee training, management and hiring tools to help you succeed.
By providing the critical information missing from traditional hiring and management practices, Profiles International will help you improve your existing candidate selection, employee evaluation, coaching and training programs. We offer a full suite of employee assessments and surveys to help companies of all sizes achieve more from their most important asset…….their people.
At Profiles International, we focus on understanding and objectively measuring the critical success attributes such as the core competencies, behaviours and occupational interests of employees, to insure applicants fit the job the first time. This critical “Job Match” or “JobFit” is designed into all of our assessment solutions and will help you avoid costly mistakes, identify and develop leadership skills of supervisors/ managers/executives and, ultimately, increase the retention of top performing employees.
Our assessment solutions are more than just personality tests; they are reliable and valid occupational assessment solutions that will increase the performance and profitability of an organisation.
We invite you to learn more about our human resource management assessment tools and we look forward to learning more about your organisation and how we can help you solve your people related challenges.
Regional Directors
Mark Purbrick
Prior to becoming the Regional Director for Profiles International in January 2006, Mark was the Chief Executive Officer/Director of The Wine Society, the Trading Manager for the Wine Clubs Division of the Fosters Group, General Manager of Basedow Wines and General Manager of Arrowfield Wines. Mark has had extensive involvement with peak industry bodies and is currently a Board Member of the Australian Wine & Brandy Corporation (the Australian wine industry peak government/industry regulatory body), he also serves on a number of other company Boards.
Mark first started using recruitment assessments and 360 Degree performance management tools in 1999, but it was not until 2003 that he was introduced to Profiles International.
He was appointed CEO of The Wine Society in August 2003 at which point the co-operative had experienced $4.2M in losses in the previous five years. Over the ensuing two years, using the Profiles International recruitment and performance management assessments, Mark transformed the organisation from a “public service” to a “high performance” culture by instigating an intensive performance management program. Over this period The Wine Society managed to deliver greater value to its Members (customers) through a wide range of benefits such as lower prices and freight subsidies while still reporting strong surpluses for both years. By the end of 2005, The Wine Society increased its revenue by more than 25% and continues to enjoy double digit growth at more than five times industry average.
Mark’s philosophy is simple “Understand each role and only recruit/promote people who possess JobFit, provide them with the training they require, measure their performance, recognise good performance, challenge poor performance, listen to them and then trust them. Get this right then you can spend the rest of your time on the customer, vision and strategy which are the future of your organisation”.
Tina Saunders
After completing a Bachelor of Science Degree, Tina began a career in the Health Industry working both in Australia and the UK. Appreciating a need for change and deciding to follow her true passion, she returned from overseas to pursue her interest in travel by becoming a Retail Travel Consultant for the then fledgling travel group, Flight Centre.
Tina's career saw her work in a number of areas within the travel industry encompassing both the wholesale and retail sectors. After five years working her way through many of the diverse areas of the industry, she was appointed by Flight Centre Australia as the NSW State Manager. In this role, Tina was responsible for 100 retail outlets comprising more than 400 staff and during her five year tenure oversaw year-on-year double digit profit growth.
Throughout her career both in sales and management, Tina recognised the importance of "looking after your people" and decided to continue her interest in this area by consulting to other businesses with their people management processes.
Tina joined Profiles International as Regional Director in 2004 and continues to apply her customer service and performance management skills.