PRA designed the study so that participating companies choose which job families they want to include, which tests they wish to use, and how many employees they want to participate. PRA will work with each company to design an appropriate sampling plan and to define the minimum number of employees required.

Once consortium members are identified, a final timeline will be determined. Each company will collect its own data during a window that will last approximately 6 months. Once the data are collected, PRA will begin analyses, which will take approximately 3 months. PRA will make the online tests available for use in selecting applicants approximately 9 months after data collection begins.