MBA Member
of the Month – July 2008
Bert Miller -
Human eSources®
- Helping Students Succeed
Ten years ago, Bert Miller founded a software
development company called Human eSources®
with a unique guiding principle: to help young
people find success in their lives. By
partnering with educators, Miller was able to
tap into the best learning products and career
development programs available, all of which are
specifically designed to motivate students and
foster success. His team at Human eSources®
developed these tools into online software
products that could be utilized by high schools,
colleges, and independent educational
counselors. Over the years, Human eSources®
has refined and specialized their products to
target all age groups and all stages of life.
They are proud to support approximately 7,000
institutional customers worldwide, with a little
over 90 in Connecticut. For all of their
products and programs, the focus remains the
same: to help people maximize their potential
and achieve their goals.
Miller’s team of software developers began by
developing and adapting online versions of two
time-tested and widely used educational
programs: the PEPS Learning Style Inventory and
the Do What You Are® Personality Type
and Career Interest Assessment. By
administering these online assessments, school
counselors are able to identify personal
characteristics and personality traits in their
students – information that will help students
establish effective study skills and make
informed decisions about their futures. These
Human eSources® products have been
extremely successful in high schools throughout
the country. The company also serves entire
states such as North Carolina, Rhode Island, and
Vermont, among others, with their products made
available to all schools in the states.
One of Human eSources®’ most exciting
new products is CollegeScope, a student success
program designed to help students with the
difficult transition into college life. The
program’s online, interactive curriculum
resulting in a database of student information
aimed at helping college faculty and counselors
identify at-risk students and intervene in
targeted ways. CollegeScope has been extremely
well received by colleges that have instituted
the program – helping schools increase their
retention rates by helping students succeed.
The success of CollegeScope led to an exciting
new way to help young people, when it was
recently instituted by a juvenile prison system
in southern California. The course is
administered (pro-bono) to the inmates through a
local community college; the students use the
online textbook and their progress is
monitored. “These are kids who need help,” says
Miller. “Because of difficult circumstances in
their young lives, they fall through the
cracks. We hope that after successfully
completing the CollegeScope Student Success
Program, they’ll be motivated to enroll in their
community colleges after they get out of
prison.”
Human eSources® is now rolling out a
similar student success program for high school
students –Achieveworks. And later this year,
the company will be introducing a suite of
products aimed at individual consumers.
Families whose children do not have access to
such educational programs at school, can now
purchase them for their individual students.
Using the same principles of identifying
learning styles, personality traits, and career
interests, Human eSources® was able
to adapt their products for adults in the
workplace. With a brand new product launched in
December – Employee Development and Productivity
(EDAP®) – employees and their
managers can utilize the online assessments and
programs to figure out the best environment for
effective employment and productivity in the
workplace.
Because all of their products are entirely
online, Human eSources® is able to
function as a virtual company. Working out of
his home office in Marlborough, Miller has a
team of software developers, sales associates,
and marketing professionals scattered throughout
the country. He is also very proud to work with
their Board of Advisors, a group of highly
specialized Ph.D.s and best selling authors, who
advise the company in areas of educational
trends and needs, product development, and
company direction. “By partnering with
educators,” says Miller, “Human eSources®
can access the tools and information that make
our products reliable and valid.”
To learn more about Human eSources®,
contact Bert Miller at 860-295-1500 or visit
their website at
www.humanesources.com.
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