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# Pre-Employment and Post Offer Testing

# Pre-Employment Testing

Employers often use pre-employment testing to screen job applicants. Those who use post-offer employment testing, or POET, achieve an **average of 47% fewer workers’ comp injuries and three times higher retention** than those who don’t use POET.

The purpose of a POET is to determine if the candidate you want to hire can safely perform the physical demands and essential functions of the job. This is not the same as a pre-employment physical, which is a medical examination. Medical exams may only determine overall fitness, but are not specific to the tasks of the job for which a candidate is being considered.

In keeping with ADA and EEOC requirements, POET can be administered only after you have made a formal job offer to an individual. Similar to drug testing, employment is contingent on successfully passing the POET assessment.

POET testing criteria are based on the same job demand analysis metrics used to create the job description. That ensures the post-offer employment test for that particular job is 100% consistent, from one candidate to another, and from one job site to another. This is especially important for employers with multiple regional or national facilities. 

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## Benefits of POET

A Post-Offer Employment Test (POET) is a physical assessment given to a prospective employee after a formal job offer has been made by the employer. In order to be hired, the candidate must pass the physical assessment, which tests whether he or she can perform the physical demands of the job in a safe manner.

### Benefits of a POET

- Decreased turnover because the "right" employees are hired 
- New hires have a better understanding of the the physical demands of their jobs in advance
- There is increased safety for new workers and co-workers through decreased accidents
- Injuries decrease in number and severity
- Test is compliant with ADA and EEOC guidelines and is 100% legal when performed in a standardized manner

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### Why Choose PhysNet

- Expert provider of POET services
- National presence means all employees and all locations receive a standardized test
- Single point of contact to schedule test 
- We customize the POET program to test the smallest number of employees across your job functions and locations to have the greatest positive impact
- Average time to schedule test is within 24 hours, which means no delay in your hiring process
- Our POET is based on a detailed job demands analysis — we don't rely on  simulation of functions
- POET can be used instead of a functional capacity evaluation (FCE) to facilitate return-to-work (Fit For Duty)
- Our POET establishes a ROM and Strength baseline for treatment of worker, if future injury occurs
- **PhysNet's POET program generates an average ROI of 325% for our clients**

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