We Have the People
Pre-pandemic, it's the number of HC managers who worked in the same physical office as at least one of their staff.
What is zero?
Revamped title of the Roald Dahl classic children's book, starring our own Dr. Pulakos.
What is Elaine and the Chocolate Factory? (Pulakos Chocolates, Erie PA)
They are the three parts, or constructs, that comprise PDRI's ARA thought leadership model.
What are adaptability, resilience, and agility?
It's what you provide when asked for PDRI's full legal name.
What is Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, LLC?
This is the PDRI-developed platform that will be the new home of USA Hire assessments.
What is PF2? (PerformanceFIT 2)
Of everyone in our IT division, this person holds the longest PDRI tenure.
Who is Fred Bondje?
He's the (not-yet) Chairman of the (School) Board.
Who is Ian Serotkin? (School Board Member, Blue Ridge District, Loudon County VA)
The precise label for what a layperson would call "the bottom line," it is abbreviated EBITDA.
What is "Earnings Before Interest, Texas, Depreciation, and Amortization"?
Even now, PDRI holds office leases in this number of cities.
What is five? (Arlington, Chantilly, DC, Minneapolis, and Tampa.)
It's the online system you use when you enter your work time, as we know you do, at the end of EVERY workday.
What is Deltek (or Costpoint)?
This PDRI work group includes a former competitive figure skater and a modern dancer who has performed for years on NYC stages.
What is Finance & Accounting? (Jillian and Stacey)
Think about it: This HC leader really has only two things in common with Tiny Tim: He's a man, and he plays the ukelele.
Who is Gary Carter?
It's the statistical method that describes how two variables vary together, denoted by r.
What is correlation?
PDRI's parent company, SHL, is owned by this UK-based private equity firm.
What is Exponent?
It's the cloud-based instance of the Office applications we use on our PDRI laptops.
What is Microsoft 365?
Away from PDRI's brick-and-mortar offices, two HC staff call this city home.
What is Atlanta? (Jeff Facteau and Tracy Kantrowitz)
We know her for her beautiful mind, but her backstory includes a stint serving as Miss Manatee County (Florida).
Who is Liz Lentz?
We frequently cite these aspects of what is needed to perform a given job, abbreviated "KSAs."
What are knowledges, skills, and abilities?
PDRI was originally founded as a not-for-profit in 1976, then was incorporated in this year.
What is 1988?
It's our client for the project called "Systems Thinking Ability," and the project's director.
Army Research Institutes (ARI), Michelle Wisecarver.
It's the number of SIOP Fellows currently on our staff.
What is five? (Elaine, Ryan, Gary, Tracy, Jeff)
Going to undergrad in Atlanta, he had up close and personal encounters with home run king Henry Aaron AND former president Jimmy Carter.
Who is Ryan O'Leary?
Of CBP, DEA, FEMA, TSA, and USCIS, it's the client agency that is NOT part of DHS.
What is DEA? (The Drug Enforcement Administration is under the Department of Justice.)
It's the type of board of directors PDRI has, due to being owned by a non-US corporate parent.
What is a proxy board?
It's the brand name of the VPN tool we use to sign on to the PDRI network.
What is Cisco AnyConnect?