Online Assessments

What is an Online Assessment?

These are standardized tests that companies use to evaluate a candidate's skills, knowledge, and abilities before or during the interview process. These assessments are typically conducted online using specialized software or platforms.

Introduction to Online Assessments

It's highly likely in today's job market that you will face an online assessment during the interview process. To be prepared, it's important to understand why companies use these types of evaluations and when to expect one:

Let's explore below the most common ones and how to prepare for them!

Aptitude Tests

These tests are designed to assess a candidate's inherent abilities and potential to succeed in a particular role. They often focus on traits and skills that are essential for performing the job effectively, such as problem-solving, critical thinking, and numerical reasoning.

Personality Tests & Situational Judgment Tests

These tests are often used in interviews to assess how well you align with the company culture and your potential in the role. Employers look at your personality type and work ethic to determine if you're a good team fit.

In the video, we’ll explore the main types of tests you might encounter and wrap up with our Golden Rules for tackling personality assessments.

Recruitment games: When Hiring Meets Gaming

Gamification in the interview process is a growing trend that involves incorporating game-like elements into the hiring process to make it more engaging, interactive, and effective for both candidates and recruiters. It prides itself on being an unbiased method to filter candidates and helps promote diverse hiring.

Have you ever experienced gamification in an interview process? There are a lot of benefits to this style of filtering candidates, which we explain in the following video.

The following videos will introduce Pymetrics, a well-known example of gamified
assessments. While the platform itself is unique, the concepts and skills it tests—like memory,
risk tolerance, and attention—are common across most gamified hiring tools.

Understanding how Pymetrics works will help you prepare for a wide range of similar assessments used by many employers today.

Pymetrics is an online assessment platform, recently acquired by Harver, that uses mini-games to evaluate 91 cognitive and emotional traits. In this video, we’ll explain the basics and walk through a few examples.

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This PDF serves as a continuation of the introduction. It provides a detailed breakdown of each game. This will help you better understand what to expect and how to approach the assessment.

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Extra Resources

Interested in working at any of these top brands?
They all use Harver/Pymetrics hiring assessments!

Online Case Studies

Online Case Studies are designed to evaluate a candidate’s ability to analyze real-world business scenarios and make data-driven decisions. They assess key competencies such as strategic thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills by presenting practical challenges that simulate tasks commonly encountered in the workplace. Many of the strategies and preparation tips are similar to those used in face-to-face case interviews, which are explained in more detail in the Case Interviews section you can find in this page.

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