Candidate assessment features
Everything you need to assess candidates before you hire
Choose job-relevant assessments, invite candidates, review clear results, compare performance, and use the evidence to guide interviews and hiring decisions.
- 01Choose skillsDefine what the role requires.
- 02Assess candidatesUse the same job-relevant criteria.
- 03Review evidenceCompare results and prepare interviews.
What is Candidates Assessment?
Candidates Assessment is an online candidate assessment platform for employers, recruitment agencies, staffing firms, and hiring teams. It lets organizations invite candidates to complete pre-employment assessments covering cognitive ability, job skills, communication, leadership, work style, and other workplace competencies. After candidates complete an assessment, hiring teams receive structured reports showing results, strengths, areas to verify, and interview questions. Hiring teams can compare candidates using consistent, job-relevant criteria before deciding who moves forward. Candidates Assessment works alongside existing applicant tracking and recruitment systems rather than replacing them.
Assess the skills that actually matter for the role
Build an assessment around specific job-relevant abilities and skills rather than giving every candidate the same generic test.
- Cognitive ability
- Critical thinking
- Numerical reasoning
- Verbal reasoning
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Sales aptitude
- Customer service
- Leadership
- Work style
- Personality
- Situational judgment
- Technical and job skills
- Language proficiency
Each assessment measures a specific, job-relevant capability, so results connect directly to what the role actually requires.
Tell us who you're hiring. We'll show you what to assess.
You do not need to know psychometrics to use Candidates Assessment. Choose a role, and we recommend a battery of assessments built around what that role actually requires.
Start from a recommended battery, then adjust it to fit the specifics of the role.
Browse Roles| Role | Recommended battery |
|---|---|
| Sales Representative | Sales aptitude, Communication, Verbal reasoning, Problem solving, Work style |
| Customer Service Representative | Customer service, Communication, Attention to detail, Emotional intelligence, Situational judgment |
| Manager | Leadership, Decision making, Strategic thinking, Emotional intelligence, Conflict management |
Invite candidates in seconds
Add candidates, choose the assessments, and send each candidate a secure online invitation.
- Individual invitations
- Bulk invitations
- Email delivery
- Assessment deadlines
- Reminder emails
- Completion tracking
A simple experience for candidates
How quickly and comfortably candidates can complete an assessment affects how useful the results are, and how many candidates finish at all.
- Clear instructions
- Progress indicator
- Timers where appropriate
- Mobile-friendly interface
- Distraction-free assessment screen
- Autosave
- Secure candidate access
Results available as soon as the assessment is complete
For ability and skills assessments, responses are scored automatically against the assessment's scoring model. For personality and work style assessments, results are interpreted by dimension rather than treated as right or wrong answers.
Turn assessment results into something you can actually use
Every completed assessment produces a report built for hiring decisions, not just raw scores. Recruiters can also generate an immutable client PDF and share a protected review link for comments and interview, hold, or decline decisions.
A combined view of the job-relevant evidence selected for the role.
- Assessment results by testReview each measured capability.
- Performance by dimensionSee where strengths and questions emerge.
- InterpretationPut each result into hiring context.
- Areas to verifyTake focused prompts into the interview.
- Completion detailsKeep the assessment record together.
- Interview follow-up questionsConnect evidence to the next conversation.
Compare candidates side by side
You should not have to open five reports and remember the scores. Compare candidates using the same job-relevant criteria before deciding who advances. The Agency Analytics dashboard then tracks recruiting-stage conversion, client engagement, decisions, invitation delivery, and usage by client as real activity accumulates.
| Candidate | Reasoning | Communication | Attention | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah | Strong | |||
| Daniel | Strong | |||
| Alex | Moderate |
Comparison highlights differences between candidates. It does not make the hiring decision for you.
Know what to verify in the interview
Assessment results help highlight areas worth exploring further during the interview, connecting the assessment to the conversation you actually have with the candidate.
“Tell me about a time you had to explain complex information to someone without technical knowledge.”
Build the assessment around your role
- Choose multiple tests
- Select assessment order
- Add custom questions
- Add knockout questions where appropriate
- Set deadlines
- Configure duration
- Add company instructions
Question formats built for the skill being measured
Not every skill is best measured the same way. Use the format that fits the capability you need to assess.
- Multiple choice
- Structured questions with consistent scoring.
- Scenario questions
- Job-relevant situations that test judgment.
- Numerical problems
- Tasks built to assess quantitative reasoning.
Works alongside your existing hiring process
Import candidates, assess them, and bring assessment results back into the hiring workflow you already use.
Candidates Assessment does not replace your ATS. It adds candidate assessment to the process you already use.
Coming to the platform
- Team collaboration
- Shared results, notes, and review status for your hiring team.
- Client workspaces
- Persistent client accounts, white-label branding, and configurable client permissions.
- Data connections
- CSV import and export, API access, webhooks, and direct ATS integrations.
Assess candidates in the language they understand best
Assessments are currently available in English.
Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.
Interface translation and validated assessment-language versions are separate releases. Each language will be added only after both the experience and assessment content are ready.Assessment evidence, not automated hiring decisions
Candidates Assessment helps hiring teams gather structured evidence about job-relevant abilities and skills. Assessment results should be considered alongside interviews, experience, references, and other relevant information.
Everything in one workflow
- 01Choose assessment
- 02Invite candidates
- 03Candidates complete tests
- 04Review reports
- 05Compare candidates
- 06Prepare interview questions
- 07Make the hiring decision