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Marine Profile pre-employment assessments: 99.4% correct according to a scientific study.

Those who doubt whether psychological assessment and selection procedures add to safety have to reconsider their views.

The study, from Bimco Bulletin no 1, 2003, shows that our psychological assessment works.

The study has taken five and a half years to complete and covers all employments between 1996 and 2002 for one shipowner: Star Cruises, the Malaysia-based cruise liner that has been honoured with the Lloyd’s List Safety and Environmental Award 2002.

All in all, 459 officers were psychologically assessed by our maritime psychologists against specified criteria for employment. Of these, 351 officers, were eventually employed and followed up as regards their work performance.

The results have revealed that 349 (99.4%) of the officers in reality proved to meet the ship owner's rigorous safety and professional standards.

Applying our system of selection has led to low turnover, resulting in continuity of employment, increased safety as well as cost savings for the ship owner.

This follow-up study provides some hard facts about psychological assessment and is the most extensive study of its kind. The results are even better than in comparative studies from the aviation industry.

The Marine Profile psychological assessment procedure has been designed to shed light upon an applicant's personal traits vital for safety such as stress resistance, maturity, judgments, perceptual accuracy, as well as the ability to communicate and to lead others. All officers have been assessed using psychological tests combined with in-depth interviews.

SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT IN CHINA

Marine Profile has been asked to help assess and select Chinese maritime officers for new cruise routes to and from China. The selections and assessments are being held at different locations in Asia and comprise officers (both deck and engine) from PRC. Marine Profile has been entrusted with this task in order to achieve the same safety level on the Chinese ships as on other cruise ships.

Tests in Chinese, interviews in English
For the selection process, we use Chinese versions of our assessment methods combined with interviews in English. The Chinese officers are assessed using the same criteria as other officers, but with certain consideration of cultural differences.

The selected officers will receive further training and job acclimatization prior to serving, but it is already clear that the first selected senior officers are good and stable persons, fully up to the level of maritime officers of other nationalities

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R&D PROJECTS AT MARINE PROFILE

Marine Profile administers and runs R&D projects within the scope of our psychological competence. All our projects are for the benefit of increased safety for the international Maritime Industry and mainly in the fields of human factor related issues and issues related to coping with emergency situations.

Updated and recurrent information concerning our projects will appear on this website.

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