Building an Assessment Library with Cognitive, Personality, and Job Skills Measures
Project Summary
We developed an assessment library combining behavioural, cognitive, skills-based, and self-report measures to support more informed recruitment and development decisions. The assessment suite included situational judgement scenarios, cognitive ability assessments, job-related skills evaluations, and personality, integrity, motivation, and cultural fit measures.
Situational judgement assessments used realistic workplace scenarios and multiple response formats, including multiple choice, ranking, Likert scales, and text-based responses.
The cognitive assessment suite measured key thinking abilities including critical thinking, numerical reasoning, verbal comprehension, problem solving, attention to detail, working memory, spatial reasoning, and visual perception. The skills-based assessments covered areas such as teamwork, empathy, negotiation, leadership, coaching, customer focus, adaptability, conflict management, decision-making, strategic thinking, communication, and learning agility, among others. Additional self-report measures assessed areas such as integrity, personality characteristics, perseverance, work motivation, workplace reliability, cultural fit, and others.
To support implementation, we designed scoring algorithms tailored to each assessment format and created a mapping system to help companies identify the most appropriate assessment combination for their hiring goals. We developed participant instructions, marketing descriptions, and answer explanations. We also created custom 2D and 3D visual stimuli for assessments requiring visual processing, including abstract reasoning and working memory tasks, ensuring the assessments provided engaging measures of relevant skills.
The Challenge
Our partner needed to assess and introduce a wide range of capabilities on their hiring platform, from cognitive ability to workplace behaviours, personality, and role-specific skills. The challenge was creating a comprehensive assessment library that could adapt to different hiring and development contexts while maintaining consistency, fairness, and measurement quality across different formats. This required designing multiple assessment types, creating appropriate scoring approaches for each method, writing engaging and realistic assessment content, and building a flexible system that allows organisations onboarded on the platform to select the right combination of measures based on their specific objectives.
Project Goals
- Design a comprehensive assessment library covering cognitive ability, behavioural skills, personality, motivation, and workplace fit.
- Develop situational judgement assessments using realistic workplace scenarios and varied response formats.
- Create cognitive assessments measuring critical thinking, reasoning, attention, problem solving, and information processing abilities.
- Build job-related skills assessments aligned with workplace competencies such as leadership, communication, teamwork, and adaptability.
- Develop self-report measures assessing personality, integrity, motivation, work style, and organisational cultural fit.
- Create scoring algorithms, interpretation methods, and assessment mapping systems tailored to different assessment formats and organisational needs.
- Develop participant-facing materials, visual assessment stimuli, and implementation resources to support accurate and engaging assessment delivery.
Our Solution
We developed an extensive library of 66 assessments covering cognitive abilities, workplace skills, personality traits, and cultural fit. Each assessment was designed to measure a specific capability using evidence-based methodologies, allowing organisations to combine different assessments based on their hiring, development, or talent-management objectives.
The complete assessment library can be consulted below.
Assessment Library
66 assessments across three measurement areas
Cognitive Ability
9 assessments9 assessments
| Test | Measures |
|---|---|
| Critical Thinking | How well can users connect ideas logically and draw dependable, confident conclusions |
| Numerical Reasoning | How well can users interpret, analyse, and derive accurate conclusions from numerical data sets |
| Verbal Comprehension | How well can users interpret and apply words in instructions and directions |
| Problem Solving | How well can users analyse new data quickly and logically and use it to solve unfamiliar problems |
| Attention to Detail | How well can users pay attention to detail and detect errors, omissions, or inconsistencies |
| Reading Comprehension | How effectively can users read, process, and understand a text and its meaning |
| Working Memory | How well can users work with information without losing track of what they're doing |
| Spatial Reasoning | How well can users mentally visualise, manipulate, and understand spatial relationships between 2D and 3D objects |
| Visual Perception | How well can users detect and classify differences in objects, symbols, or shapes based on colour, position, pattern, or size |
All 66 assessments
- Cognitive Ability, Critical Thinking: How well can users connect ideas logically and draw dependable, confident conclusions
- Cognitive Ability, Numerical Reasoning: How well can users interpret, analyse, and derive accurate conclusions from numerical data sets
- Cognitive Ability, Verbal Comprehension: How well can users interpret and apply words in instructions and directions
- Cognitive Ability, Problem Solving: How well can users analyse new data quickly and logically and use it to solve unfamiliar problems
- Cognitive Ability, Attention to Detail: How well can users pay attention to detail and detect errors, omissions, or inconsistencies
- Cognitive Ability, Reading Comprehension: How effectively can users read, process, and understand a text and its meaning
- Cognitive Ability, Working Memory: How well can users work with information without losing track of what they're doing
- Cognitive Ability, Spatial Reasoning: How well can users mentally visualise, manipulate, and understand spatial relationships between 2D and 3D objects
- Cognitive Ability, Visual Perception: How well can users detect and classify differences in objects, symbols, or shapes based on colour, position, pattern, or size
- Leadership and Management, Leadership: How effectively can users lead and empower others while also supporting their growth and development
- Leadership and Management, Motivating Others: How well can users motivate others to put more effort into their work and be more productive and engaged
- Leadership and Management, Performance Alignment: How effectively can users guide the people under their supervision in achieving their performance objectives
- Leadership and Management, Delegation: How effectively can users allocate decision-making authority and/or task responsibility to people under their supervision
- Leadership and Management, Strategic Decision-Making: How well can users see the big picture, analyse alternatives, and turn them into strategic actions that impact a company's long-term success
- Leadership and Management, Meeting Leadership: How effectively can users lead meetings in order to achieve its objectives
- Leadership and Management, Mentoring: How effectively can users mentor people under their supervision in developing, growing, and progressing in their jobs or careers
- Leadership and Management, Coaching: How effectively can users coach others in developing specific skill areas required to complete tasks or solve problems
- Leadership and Management, Facilitating Change: How effectively can users facilitate the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace
- Leadership and Management, Remote Team Management: How effectively can users manage the work of a team in a virtual setting
- Leadership and Management, Strategic Planning: How well can users define strategic goals, formulate action plans, communicate strategies, and mobilise the necessary resources to implement strategies successfully
- Leadership and Management, Business Acumen: How well can users take a "big picture" view of business operations and understand how the moving parts of a company work together to make it successful
- Communication and Influence, Negotiation: How effectively can users negotiate to reach a mutually beneficial agreement
- Communication and Influence, Assertive Communication: How well can users express their own views, feelings, and needs in a clear and direct manner while remaining respectful of others
- Communication and Influence, Active Listening: How well can users understand a speaker's message by paying full attention, paraphrasing ideas and reflecting emotional responses, asking clarifying questions, and summarising key points from a conversation
- Communication and Influence, Persuasiveness: How well can users use a personalised style of communication and interaction to persuade others to agree with them
- Communication and Influence, Gaining Commitment to Ideas and Plans: How effectively can users convince others to commit to, buy into, and accept their ideas and plans
- Communication and Influence, Group Facilitation: How effectively can users facilitate group meetings so that participants can seek inclusive solutions and build sustainable agreements
- Communication and Influence, Interviewing: How effectively can users conduct interviews and question applicants during the recruitment and selection process
- Communication and Influence, Training: How well can users conduct training sessions and teach or instruct others in a way that helps them learn and develop new skills or knowledge
- Communication and Influence, Consulting: How well can users provide professional recommendations to an individual or organisation to help them solve work-related problems
- Collaboration and Relationships, Teamwork: How well can users build collaborative relationships with co-workers in order to achieve work goals
- Collaboration and Relationships, Building Team Cohesion: How effectively can users build a cohesive team with people who want to stay together and work towards a similar goal
- Collaboration and Relationships, Building Working Relationships: How well can users build collaborative relationships with co-workers in order to foster a culture of mutual support and cooperation
- Collaboration and Relationships, Building Partnerships: How well can users build successful partnerships with others to achieve common goals and strengthen their company's capabilities
- Collaboration and Relationships, Building Trust: How effectively can users build trust and confidence in their intentions
- Collaboration and Relationships, Building Customer Loyalty: How well can users develop productive and positive relationships with customers, enabling them to become loyal to the company
- Collaboration and Relationships, Customer Focus: How well can users focus their attention on customers and their needs and maintain constructive working relationships with them
- Collaboration and Relationships, Service Orientation: How well can users understand and anticipate the needs and preferences of their clients
- Collaboration and Relationships, Social Perceptiveness: How well can users show they are aware of and sensitive to other people's feelings and actions in social situations
- Personal Effectiveness, Time Management: How well can users manage their time and schedules so that they can meet deadlines, milestones, and goals
- Personal Effectiveness, Being Organised: How effectively can users organise their own tasks and activities to complete work efficiently and on time
- Personal Effectiveness, Perseverance: How well can users persevere in their efforts to carry out a plan of action until the desired goal is reached
- Personal Effectiveness, Adaptability: How well can users adapt to new or changed structures, requirements, or situations while remaining productive
- Personal Effectiveness, Learning Agility: How effectively can users examine topics from multiple angles, think reflectively, and learn quickly and flexibly from their own experiences
- Personal Effectiveness, Active Learning: How well can users identify the best learning methods for assimilating and applying new information on the job in a timely and efficient manner
- Personal Effectiveness, Learning Development: How well can users identify learning needs, select relevant learning activities, apply learning on the job, and measure their learning success
- Personal Effectiveness, Coordination: How well can users organise and execute various activities, actions, and plans at the same time
- Personal Effectiveness, Following-Up: How well can users initiate follow-ups with co-workers, clients, or customers to ensure tasks are done on time, expectations met, and goals achieved
- Personal Effectiveness, Empathy: How well can users detect other people's feelings, understand their point of view, and respond properly to support them through difficult situations
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Decision-Making: How well can users analyse a situation, consider options, and choose the most appropriate course of action
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Information Analysis: How effectively can users collect, organise, interpret, and evaluate information to make sound decisions
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Research: How effectively can users research relevant information on a particular topic
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Process Improvement: How well can users systematically identify, analyse, and improve existing business processes for the purpose of optimisation
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Design Thinking: How well can users apply a user-centric, iterative, and collaborative approach to effectively identify and address user needs
- Analysis and Problem-Solving, Conflict Management: How well can users manage hostile situations and apply suitable conflict-resolution strategies
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Emotional Stability: How effectively can users handle negative thoughts and emotions in demanding situations and recover quickly from setbacks
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Stress Management: How effectively can users recognise stressors and use helpful strategies to effectively control, reduce, and cope with stress
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Work Reliability: How well can users identify and condemn detrimental workplace behaviours and uphold high work standards
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Workplace Etiquette: How effectively can users adhere to good office etiquette and professional conduct standards
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Safety Awareness: How closely can users follow safety rules and actively detect and report unsafe conditions
- Wellbeing and Workplace Conduct, Managing Disruptive Behaviours at Work: How well can users identify, address, and condemn behaviours that disrupt the work environment or interfere with the ability of others to do their jobs
- Self-Report, Cultural Fit: How do users' values align with those of the team and the larger company culture
- Self-Report, Work Integrity: To what extent are users inclined to act honestly, reliably, and ethically even when no one is looking
- Self-Report, Motivation: What motivates users to put in effort and be involved in their work
- Self-Report, Personality: What personality traits are users inclined to reveal at work
- Self-Report, Work Ethic: To what degree are users inclined to believe in working hard and being involved in their work