Versant helps organizations to uphold language standards that have been proven to be critical to customer satisfaction and employee productivity. When spoken English or Spanish skills are critical for success on the job, quickly and objectively screen candidates with Versant automated tests, administered in just minutes by telephone or computer. Improve your staffing and talent management processes with this accurate, reliable tool and drive positive business results.

The Versant tests of spoken English or Spanish will help your organization:

• measure the ability to understand and to be understood in business communications.
• enable the right language proficiency levels throughout your organization for success.
• evaluate language proficiency objectively and consistently.

Versant tests of spoken language enable you to:

• hire professionals who have the language skills you need for the jobs where speaking is important to clear and effective communication.
• ensure employees with management potential have the language proficiency to participate in leadership development and move up.
• easily benchmark employees' language levels to correctly place them in training programs or measure learning progress after.
• screen more employees in less time, streamlining your recruiting or training processes and reducing assessment costs.
• deliver more objective, consistent assessments without the variability typical of multiple evaluators and administrations.

The Versant tests of spoken language are built using criteria developed by expert linguists. The Ordinate scoring system has been extensively field trialed and validated with reference to the most qualified human evaluators of language proficiency, fluency, and pronunciation.

The Versant testing systems allows you to evaluate all of your employees on an equal basis with objective, unbiased scoring. It complies with the legal and professional guidelines in the Uniform Guidelines for Employee Selection Procedures and the Principles for the Validation and Use of Personnel Selection Procedures governing the use of tests for high-stakes decision-making in organizations.

Your staff can easily administer the Versant tests by having employees take the test over the telephone or on a test center computer. Ordinate automatically scores an employee test, making a detailed score report available for you in the reporting system within minutes of being submitted.