National Testing Network Expands Public Safety Applicant Testing Centers In The Bay Area

Oct. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- National Testing Network (NTN), the leader in outsourced applicant testing for public safety departments today announced a new test location partnership with South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium to deliver firefighter and law enforcement applicant testing services.   This announcement comes just months after opening their Southern California testing facility through Rio Hondo Fire Academy.

South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium has already begun providing applicant testing sessions for public safety departments in the Bay Area.

This service enables public safety departments to greatly reduce their applicant screening costs, and reallocate resources.   By offering real-time applicant score reports, NTN provides clients with current applicant information, and the necessary test score data to make better informed hiring decisions.  

NTN utilizes validated applicant testing products designed by Ergometrics.   All tests are job-simulated and designed to identify the applicants with the necessary decision making skills and critical thinking aptitude to perform well within public safety.  

NTN Applicant Testing: Key Benefits

    •  Quickly identify top applicants
    •  Centralize screening tasks and streamline work flow
    •  Greatly reduce applicant recruitment and testing costs
    •  Increase diversity

Commentary

“Our new testing partners in California will give departments an opportunity to reduce costs, while enhancing their applicant screening and recruitment practices.  This model is the future of public safety applicant testing,” said National Testing Network President, Carl Swander, Ph.D.  “We are now able to deliver the most sophisticated and high quality applicant testing products and services in the industry through a highly reputable public safety program at The Academy.”

When asked about the new partnership, Michael Lombardo, Vice President of Administrative Services for South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium said, “In furtherance of its mission to meet the educational and training needs of our public safety students and to provide efficient, cost effective services to our public safety agency partners, South Bay Regional Public Safety Training Consortium has forged a partnership with Ergometrics and its National Testing Network (NTN).  Recognized as leaders in the "pre-employment" public safety testing arena, the partnership between NTN and South Bay provides the public safety community with an efficient and more cost effective pre-employment testing option designed specifically to assist agencies in the assessment and hiring of qualified public safety candidates.  South Bay is proud to be a part of this important collaboration."

About Ergometrics and National Testing Network  

Ergometrics is a human resource management firm specializing in personnel selection and training.  Established in 1981, Ergometrics has designed the most comprehensive, award winning video testing and job simulation testing programs in the nation. We have provided personnel testing services for over 1,300 clients in the U.S. and Canada.  Forty three of the 50 largest cities in the US use our products, as do most state governments and hundreds of local entities and smaller organizations.  

National Testing Network, Inc. (NTN), is Ergometrics’ outsourcing division, providing continuous professional testing services for public safety departments, including fire, law enforcement and communications departments.   For more information, please visit http://www.nationaltestingnetwork.com or http://www.ergometrics.org.


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