1. Profiles International, Inc. (PI) was established in 1991 in Texas, USA. It had amongst its stated objectives that of providing employers with current, valid and easy to use employment assessment instruments, so that they could make better use of their human capital resources. It operated initially in North America, where it now has tens of thousands of clients, both large and small. It is the world's innovator and leader in the development and distribution of employment related assessments.
Profiles now has affiliates in over one hundred countries. Assessments have been translated and validated in sixteen languages (and growing).

Deficiencies with Current Testing Instruments
Profiles noted when if was founded in 1991, that there were many deficiencies with the then available instruments, many of which are still in use. Amongst these deficiencies were:

• Almost all instruments in use were developed for the purpose of diagnosing specific clinical conditions, NOT for the purpose of employment evaluation.
• Most needed to be interpreted by a trained psychologist.
• They had cultural and other biases, and did not fulfill the legal/labor codes for none discrimination.
• They were not updated… neither were they representative of current personality theory, nor representative of the changing employment pool.
• They had no available validation studies.

In short, they possibly did a fine job of clinical diagnosis (for which they were developed), but were not only unreliable, but also invalid and in some cases illegal, when applied to the workplace.
The Profile’s Solution
To overcome these difficulties, Profiles has slowly developed a completely new set of employee related assessment instruments, literally from the ground up… whilst making full use of prior research.