"Our management team feels that working with you - and using your customized interviewing and testing 'System" - is among the most important and best decisions we made.  We have been using your "Forecast Tests" and Interview Guides ever since, and the results is that we have hired a top-notch workforce which enabled us to exceed our business plan."

—Sterling

"Our company is thrilled to use your customized system to "Hire the Best and Avoid the Rest."  Your research created a very wonderfully linked, customized interviewing and testing system."

—Sierra Telephone

"All-in-all, your Forecaster Test help us to achive our goals to, like your book says, Hire The Best and Avoid the Rest."

—Pittsburgh Technical Institute

"Your customized Forecaster Tests have helped us improve profits due to hiring better quality applicants and decreasing turnover from 33% down now to about 10%."

—Louis & Company

"I wanted to let you know we have been very pleased with the implementation of your systems to "Hire The Best & Avoid The Rest' (Forecaster Tests combined with customized interviewing). We believe we have made much better selection descisions."

—John C. Lincoln Health Network

"Dr. Mercer provided us with quite a remarkable hiring process.  The ROI on PNC's investment in itself is expected to be astounding."

—Piedmont National

"Thank you again!  We appreciate your time and commitment to helping our team succeed!"

—Guaranty Bank

"We would like to express our complete satisfaction with Mercer's Forecaster Test and your supportive responsiveness to our needs.  Akridge focused on hiring the best and the Forecster has more than proven to be a highly effective tool for well over five years."

—Akridge

"Your 'Forecaster' test superbly predicts which sales candidates have the best chance to succeed.  You and your 'Forecaster' test enable DeVry (to use the title of a book you wrote) 'hire the best and avoid the rest!."

—DeVry, Inc.

"You will be pleased to know that your Forecaser Test plays a huge role in helping us hire fantastic employess who enable us to grow our business."

—First Federal Savings & Loan

"Forecaster Test scores and benchmarks are precise, enabling interviewers to make correct judgements on candidates.  Your benckmark research wonderfully custom-tailored Forecaster Tests to objectively assess if a person fits in our corporate culture and also will succeed here."

—Franklin National Bank

"One strong point is that you assisted Old Second Bancorp in benchmarking our own outstanding employees' test scores.  That way, our use of the Forecaster Test focused on tangible comparisons between each applicant and our own outstanding employees.  That comparison helps us predict of someone has what it takes to succeed at Old Second."

—Old Second Bancorp, Inc.

"You have enormously benefited from your customized 'hire the best and avoid the rest' methods...Our managers and I keep seeing first-hand that your interviewing methods and 'Forecaster' testing works wonders for us."

—Bank of America

"After customizing our interview procedures, you led a terrific workshop for our Marketing Managers in how to interview, test and rate applicants.  Through this insightful presentation, our managers were able to learn how to conduct in-depth interviews, link interview notes to Forecaster Test scores, rate applicants, and determine which applicants are best to hire."

—IPD - University of Phoenix

"Youe Forecaster Test dependably predicts if a candidate will do well in our company.  That is exactly what we need to know before hring someone.  As such, your Abilities & Behavior Forecaster Test proves astounding helpful.  Your Forecaster Test plays a vital role in helping us hire superior employees so we can continue to grow our business."

—Fisher, Herbst & Kemble, P.C.

"Thank you and your Forecster Tests for helping our career college hire outstanding instructors.  Your tests helped us produce profitable results."

—ITI Technical College

"The Forecster Test definitely has been a true indicator of personalities, everyday work ethic, people skills and thinking skills.  It has proven reliable and accurate in evaluating job candidates.

—CBIZ

"Our company has profited greatly using your Behavior Forecaster pre-employment test when we hire sales reps.  Due to your Forecaster Test's excellent track record, we rely heavily on it.  Forecaster Tests helps us hire solid sales reps.  Also, it keeps us from hiring applicants who seem good in the intreview but really are not."

—Long-Lewis Ford

"Our company appreciates how your 'Forecaster Test' enables us to, as your book's title says, 'hire the best and avoid the rest'. "

—Southwest Student Services Corp.

"We have profited from using you and your firm as our 'hire the best' consultants."

—Fort Dearborn Company

"You devised interviewing and testing procedures that are custom-tailored to banks belonging t our association which took a lot of work on your part...Everyone enjoyed your viiivid speaking style, practice exercised, examples of what truly works, research-based advise and, of course your humor."

—Michigan Bankers Association