"TalentLens takes the guess-work out of assessing employment and promotion candidates," said Harcourt Assessment Vice President of Human Resources Phillip Weiss. "With TalentLens' industry-specific assessments, employers can be confident that they are assessing the skills most relevant to job success within their business."

Through the use of role-based assessments, TalentLens provides a targeted assessment for each potential candidate that helps predict potential job performance. These competency focused assessments provided by the TalentLens solution enhance employers' ability to make accurate and efficient hiring decisions and place the right person in the job. In a single assessment that takes just 45-60 minutes to complete, TalentLens offers an integrated measurement of specific ability and work-related personality traits documented by validity studies and the Department of Labor to be important to each specific role.

Harcourt Assessment offers a wide array of talent assessment solutions, helping employers to maximize their human capital investment and enhance HR workflow through assessment solutions that aim to improve the recruitment, hiring, development, and retention of a stellar workforce. Harcourt Assessment's solutions provide rapid, accurate, objective and unbiased insight, and better understanding of candidates and employees. This predictive information enables employers to make more accurate hiring decisions, align individual capabilities to organizational needs, and develop a high-performance and confident workforce. Companies of all sizes, world-wide, are leveraging these solutions to drive competitive advantage in areas such as critical thinking, problem solving, leadership development, and job fit.

For more information on Harcourt Assessment's talent assessment products, visit http://www.AssessTalent.com