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SQ™ Service Questionnaire

The SQ™ is a quick, inexpensive, and accurate assessment tool designed to help companies identify customer oriented, hard-working, and stable hourly employees. Developed and validated specifically for hourly positions, the SQ™ can help win the battle against high turnover.

What Does the SQ Measure?

  • Drive & Energy - Responsive, active, works with a sense of urgency to keep a fast pace
  • Sociability - Outgoing, interactive, greets customers, communicates with co- workers
  • Stress Tolerance - Stable, calm, positive, handles the pressure of daily demands
  • Friendliness - Helpful, friendly, believes customer is right
  • Acceptance of Authority - Rule-oriented, organized, works well within established structures
  • Dependability - Takes ownership of tasks, follows through commitments, takes responsibility for their actions
  • Overall Rating - A strong fit for an hourly employee in a customer-oriented position

What are the Benefits of Using the SQ™?

  • User Friendly - The SQ™ only takes 30 minutes of the applicant's time and seconds for scoring. Results are easy to understand, descriptive, and an effective addition to interviewing.
  • Cost Effective - The SQ™ can help you hire the kind of employee you want and screen out the kind of employee who costs your company money.
  • Accurate - Our research shows that employees who score higher on the SQ™ are rated as better performers by their supervisors. Thus, the SQ™ can help interviewers accurately identify employees who will perform well and have less likelihood of turnover due to poor performance.
  • Customizable and flexible - A targeted net brings in only the best of the best when large numbers of applicants are available, while a more relaxed net brings in a sufficient number of high-potential candidates from among fewer applicants.
  • Precise - The tools incorporate curvilinear benchmarks to help measure candidates for just the right amount of certain traits to help effectively predict an applicant's future success in a given role.

Proven Results


Annual hourly employee turnover decreased on average by 18 percentage points per year upon introduction of the SQ™. A client reported savings of at least $10,000 per location annually in replacement costs.

Hourly turnover decreased 57 percentage points after one year upon implementation of the SQ™. This turnover reduction saved the client approximately $60,000 per location (over $5.6 million system wide) in replacement costs.
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