Regional companies and multinationals invest in Thomas International HR system

To help companies continue on such practices, Global Management Consultants, a leading HR Consultancy firm have been providing companies with various HR tools. One of the most commonly used of them is Thomas International Profiling System, a profiling tool that helps companies recruit, train and develop their staff into competent managers.

Thomas International Profiling System is being used over by several medium to large size organizations for their HR requirements. Some of the recent additions to Thomas's growing list of customers are York International, Lamnalco Group of Companies and Emirates Airlines. The need for having this tool in each of these companies is different and quite significant. As part of the new agreement with Thomas International, York Refrigeration and Lamnalco will use Thomas International's personality assessment tools for recruitment. Emirates Airlines, on the other hand have stitched this tool in their development process for nationals. From the time, when a national is hired till his 12 months of tenure in the company, they are put through various assessments using this tool to evaluate their skills, based on which an entire development process is designed and implemented.

According to John Kay, Director, Human Resources, York International (Middle East), "We are also planning to use Thomas International's development program for our management staff". "With competence, ability and experience in the marine, technical, financial aspects and disciplines of shipping operations being the bywords for Lamnalco's international record, the tie-up would help us maintain this competitive edge," said Chris Bloore, group human resource and administration manager, Lamnalco Group.

"Effective recruitment and HR management policies are an essential link for any organization to become successful in the local as well as international markets. Thomas systems, by identifying and utilizing individual strengths, enables companies to release the full potential of their people by helping human resource managers in recruiting, training, career planning and team management" said Saira Azhar, Senior Thomas Consultant, and CEO, Global Management Consultants, the sole representative of Thomas Profiling in the UAE.

"The personality assessment would involve running the profiles on the staff and supplementing this by having one to one sessions with them. The Thomas Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) system is a powerful work place inventory that can be used in virtually every aspect of human relations within the work environment. A ten minute process, it reduces screening time and minimizes subjectivity in the recruitment process" said Azhar.

Companies looking at continuously maintaining the confidence of its customers, shareholders, employees and other stakeholders hold recruitment and employee training critical and Thomas International is a profiling system, which helps them in these processes.

In addition to personal profile tools, Thomas International also offers technical support, team development training, ongoing research and development, software upgrades, newsletters and client workshops. The company with offices in more than 50 countries has completed 4 million assessments in the last 15 years. To assist its 30,000 clients, Thomas International has created ThomasInternational.net, an online division to help them manage their human resources online and remotely from their respective offices.