UK – London, UK-based learning company Pearson completed the acquisition of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, an Arlington, Virginia-based provider of workforce assessment services.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Founded in 1975, PDRI has expertise in providing assessment solutions to the U.S. federal government, one of the largest employers in the U.S. with more than 4 million employees. Its suite of integrated talent management solutions helps government and commercial clients hire, train, develop, manage and motivate high-performance organizations. The acquisition expands Pearson’s services to U.S. federal agencies, including through PDRI’s partnership with the Office of Personnel Management to deliver the USA Hire platform. The platform serves more than 40 agencies and is utilized to assess more than 500,000 applicants annually. PDRI will join Pearson’s Assessment & Qualifications division. Within this division, Pearson and PDRI already have an established, working relationship, partnering to deliver assessments to federal jobseekers at Pearson VUE test centers. The company will now operate under the ‘PDRI by Pearson’ brand name.24/03/2023
