His product offering goes beyond your typical profiling and into a complete analysis of organizational effectiveness and in my experience is far superior to the competition. Lou is very personable and easy to work with and I respect his industry knowledge and capabilities.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity . Hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2002, and hired Lou more than once.
Pierre Gallant, COO/CFO at ClearPoint, LLP
"We
hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2002, and hired
Lou more than once. Our organization has
standardized on the XT Profile, in large measure,
because of Lou.
For a long time, I wanted to believe that the processes involved in the selection, hiring, and retention of excellent personnel could be improved using profiling tools. However, all the tools I had used prior to the XT Profile had too much qualitative voodoo that was neither predictive nor more effective than when not using a tool.
Then I was introduced to Lou. He did a terrific job of persevering through my long period of skepticism. Now, I am a believer: we are much more effective in selecting, hiring, and retaining excellent personnel.
Ultimately, what sold me on Lou and his abilities to interpret the patterns in the XT Profile was after I (having seen ten or more XT Profile reports on myself and colleagues) asked Lou to provide a compatibility assessment showing a side-by-side analysis of my XT Profile scores and those of a prospective key hire.
With my candidate in the room, Lou predicted that this prospective key hire would have certain intrinsic needs that were not ones I would typically fulfill and certain decision making tendencies.
The candidate thought it was rubbish because it made him appear less than what he thought of himself. I hired the candidate and it turned out that Lou was 100% correct about this (and other) candidate(s).
Lou’s analysis provided me with some key insights into how to manage and lead this person in a way that got fantastic results. Had I not heard Lou’s analysis, I am certain that I would have interpreted the traits and tendencies of my key hire in a negative manner and would not have had a successful outcome.
Lou has helped me to become a better leader and manager. During the years I have worked with Lou and the many dozens of profiles we have done, I think of Lou as one of our best partner suppliers in terms of timely service and responsiveness."
Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, On Time. Hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2004 and hired often.
Jere Cowden, CEO & Founder, Cowden & Associates
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity. Hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2005, and hired Lou more than once.
Louise Alving,
MICROSOFT Recruiter
“I relied on Lou's invaluable expertise in identifying and profiling candidate success factors. He profiled our sales and call center teams to build job match patterns specific to Who's Calling's business needs and culture. His tools and expertise allowed Who's Calling to make consistently better hires based off his recalibration and identification of what behavioral characteristics constitute success in a particular role. His reports not only identified who to hire, but also how to best manage them for success. Lou was responsive and I relied on him to help with interpretation of results, and lend direction to our recruiting and sales management team. An investment in his services is well worth it!”
Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity Hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2004, and hired Lou more than once.
Tara Butler, Management Consultant, The Broadview Group
“I highly recommend Lou Kertesz of Turning Point Consulting. I have worked with Lou with over a dozen clients, using the Profile XT assessment products. The tools are excellent on their own - and Lou's additional expertise and experience are a huge value add.
He has helped increase retention at my clients' organizations through making better hiring decisions. This has saved my clients an incredible amount of time, money and energy by hiring the right candidates for the job the first time and insuring success in the role once they are onboarded.
Lou has helped bring a science to the art of hiring that has consistent results. With one of my clients, they had involuntary turnover of about 20% before we worked with Lou. In the first year of using Lou's services, this was reduced to 0%.
Lou does a fantastic job at quantifying the organizational benefits of using his services and all of my clients were very satisfied with the results. Additionally, Lou is a pleasure to work with. He is very personable, has great follow through, and consistently exceeds my expectations.”
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert Hired Lou as a Business Consultant in 2003, and hired Lou more than once.
