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“I have served as a personnel (HR) director for over 14 years. I find myself continually in a career counseling situation. The training that I have in the IDAK system has been tremendously helpful. I use it in immediate counsel, on going guidance, staff assessments, placement, team building and outplacement. I have worked with other systems but none have given me as solid and thorough information as did the IDAK Career match.”

Jim Hamilton
NAIM, Canada

“I believe IDAK’s understanding and assessment of Natural Talents is a pioneering, much needed breakthrough approach to more realistically assessing human resource competencies. It is the best system I have seen, especially with its respect to its comprehensiveness, versatility and integration with other models of personal and organizational development.”

Dr. Michael O.
Organizational Development Consultant and Assessment Research Specialist
Minnesota

“I’ve found IDAK’s Career match instrument to be an invaluable tool with employees. Our employee assistance program manager, a clinical psychologist with an extensive background in instrumentation, described (IDAK) Career Match as ‘one of the best career development instruments I’ve ever seen’.”

Marsha F.
Federal Gov Agency HR Executive
Oregon

“I continue to be impressed with both the simplicity and depth of the (IDAK) assessment tools used to evaluate the natural talents of our marketing and investigations staff.”

Bruce M.
HR Director Workmen’s Comp Insurance Co.
Oregon

“I have revisited several projects on which you and I have worked together. To the best of my knowledge all of these have resulted in our employees feeling like a winner in a new role. Each has a new assignment, renewed self esteem and renewed sense of challenge and excitement. I am glad that you are on my team.”

John O.
HR Director
City Government Office
Oregon

“We contracted with IDAK to reduce the high attrition rate of our sales force…I want to tell you how pleased I am with the service IDAK has performed for us.”

Jerry R.
Director of Sales and marketing Product distribution company
California

“I wouldn’t consider hiring anyone for a supervisory position until they had been assessed by IDAK.”

Dave A.
CEO, manufacturing Co.
Oregon

“You and your firm have been an invaluable resource for us when confronted with making difficult employment decisions. It is gratifying to be able to refer terminated employees to a service that helps them become re-directed.”

Frank M.
Large Construction Co.
Oregon

“Your information has been invaluable in identifying and hiring the best candidates for our company. Wanted to say thanks and let you know that your information played a large role in our having the best group of employees that we’ve ever had.”

Mike W.
Sales manager Delivery service Company
Oregon.

“IDAK has given us a wonderful tool to understand our workers and to make better personnel decisions. The common nomenclature and concise definitions help us to communicate accurately as leaders. Not only has it provided us with a marvelous tool, it has provided a framework for training new leaders. We are very grateful for the partnership we enjoy with the IDAK Group.”

Carl M.
Director of Candidate Development national office of Church Denomination
Colorado

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