Assessments built for the job

A hiring test built for your jobs, not somebody else's.

We build personality, judgment and reasoning assessments around the roles you hire for, starting from your own job descriptions and the situations your people face, and they are ready in weeks. Candidates finish them, and you can show how every score was reached.

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Scenes from real jobs

The problem

Your jobs are specific, though the tests you use may be generic.

Off-the-shelf assessments are built around the average version of a role, so they describe people well and say little about who will do well in yours. Building your own used to take six figures and at least six months, which is why most organizations never did.

We build yours in weeks from your job descriptions, your performance reviews and the situations your people actually face. Psychologists still make every judgment call, and what has changed is how fast the slow work behind those calls gets done. AI builds and checks the assessment. No AI model scores, ranks or rejects a candidate.

The standard assessments are priced per candidate. A test built for your job is a fixed fee, quoted before we start, and it runs on the same per-candidate basis once it is live.

Weeksfrom your material to a live assessment, where a custom build used to take at least six months

Every steppasses a psychologist before it moves on, and the approval stays on record

15,000+applicants assessed under real stakes in one government scholarship program

The assessments

Four ways to see a candidate clearly.

Each one can run on its own or in a single sitting with the others, on any phone, in your brand.

Judgment

Scenes from your jobs

The candidate steps into a situation from your own work, then rates the responses. See it in retail, restaurants, airlines and more.

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I like meeting new people

Personality

Pictured pairs, in ten minutes

Each screen asks which of two statements is more like the candidate, and by how much, so there is no flattering answer to reach for.

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Edge

How a strength holds up under pressure

Short work situations show whether a person sees a trait working against them and corrects for it, at both ends of the trait.

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Reasoning

A reasoning test you have to hold

The question shows only while the candidate holds it, and the clock keeps running when they let go, so working it out is faster than looking it up.

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How we build it

Built by psychologists, tested before it is used, and kept current.

AI does the slow part of the build, drafting and screening thousands of questions before a candidate sees one, and every assessment is still tried on real people before it counts for anybody. Every enterprise client then gets a psychologist and a client director by name, who keep your assessments and scoring current as your roles and your workforce change.

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Psychologists

design every assessment and sign off every stage of the build, and the sign-offs are kept.

Tried on people

before it counts for anybody, and checked for fairness across groups: among 15,000 applicants under real stakes, first- and second-language candidates differed by no more than a tenth of a standard deviation on any factor.

Documented

in a full validation study, public on the Open Science Framework, so a challenged decision has a record behind it rather than an opinion.

ISO 27001

Delivered on Podium365, run by Allied Assessments under ISO/IEC 27001, and already connected to the main applicant tracking systems.

Other vendors use AI to cut time and cost. We use it to do more science, and to rebuild assessments properly.

The science

Every claim has a study behind it, and the study is public.

Our research sits on the Open Science Framework with the protocols, the analysis logs and the results beside it, so anyone can check our work without asking us first. These are the main studies, and the How we build it page walks through the method.

How we build it

The full research index, every study with its DOI

The people

The people you will work with.

Three founders, and no sales team between you and the psychologist who builds your assessment. The people who build it are the people you meet, and they stay with it after it goes live.

Tariq Shaban

Co-Founder & Product & Innovation Director

Industrial-organizational psychologist (Master of Applied Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Colorado State University; Master of Strategic Human Resource Management, University of Wollongong) with more than eighteen years in talent identification and development across the Gulf, the US and Asia-Pacific. He trained as an aerospace engineer at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals before moving into psychology, and built the way we make assessments.

Dr. Sarah Burke

Co-Founder & Commercial Director

Sarah Burke (PhD, Business Management; MPsych (Hons); BEd) has nearly 30 years’ experience designing end-to-end recruitment and talent systems for public and private sector clients. She co-founded one of APAC’s most respected psychology consultancies and led this business for 25 years. Sarah is the first New Zealander to receive the global EdTech Tools award, recognizing her innovative work helping school leavers transition into employment.

Dr. Glenn S. Brown

Co-Founder & Technical Director

Chartered psychologist and technologist (PhD in Quantitative Behavioural Psychology and a first-class BSc Hons in Psychology, University of Otago), founder of Podium and co-author of several assessments, who spent five years evaluating machine learning outcomes at Microsoft.

Next step

Send us one job description.

We'll build the first scene for it and show you, so you can look at the real thing instead of reading about it.

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