The PSTC Goal
Our goal is to provide the highest quality online assessment and HR consulting services to public and private-sector organizations, both large and small. PSTC specializes in assessing the traits and competencies of job applicants (abilities, personality, motivation, values, skills), the defensible analysis of work activities, and the development and hosting of online data-collection services. Several factors set us apart from our competitors.

Expert Staff
Our team features Ph.D.-trained consultants with degrees in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Psychometrics, and skills in both the applied as well as the research aspects of assessment. Our principal consultants have well over 75 years of combined experience in solving applied assessment problems.

Commitment to Technical Excellence
Quality is our byword. We don't cut corners, and we believe strongly in producing assessment solutions that conform fully with the Uniform Guidelines and other relevant standards regarding validation and reliability. We also use the most advanced technologies in test-development, including computer-adaptive testing (CAT), item-response theory (IRT) scoring, and IRT-based assessment of test "fairness" using differential item functioning (DIF) statistics.

Client Focus
Unlike giant firms that favor an "off the shelf" and "one size fits all" approach, we enjoy doing custom projects that involve test development, test validation, web-software development, competency modeling, and similar functions.

Commitment to Open Software Standards and Security
We develop web assessment services using Java and other "open" standards. This means you're not going to be locked into a Microsoft-centric "solution" based on a notoriously insecure, proprietary web-services platform. We offer "SSL" encrypted links to our online testing servers to give you further confidence in the security of the assessment data-collection processes.