Markets evolve. Organizations too. And so does the skill set needed to keep up. With Pointerpro, you build powerful assessments. What you get out of them is this:
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Not only can you deliver PDF reviews directly to employees’ mailboxes. With the premium feature, Distribution Portal, managers administer to-do assessments and reports to their team members themselves. All the while, you keep oversight and stay in control.
A competency assessment reveals people’s key skills, talents, and areas of weakness. It allows you to find or create the right match between employees and responsibilities.
An effective one is digital, mobile-responsive, uses a carefully designed question structure, and custom score calculations. It also visualizes collected data to effectively inform both employer and employee. A competency assessment built with Pointerpro ticks all of these boxes.
A competency assessment improves your HR processes: It provides objective screening, analysis (including benchmarks), and profiling. It allows an organization to attract the right candidates, provide paths for employee development, and increase job satisfaction.
A competency assessment is used to evaluate whether an individual has the skills, behaviors, and knowledge required to perform a job effectively. These assessments are often used in hiring, training, performance reviews, and leadership development. The goal is to identify strengths, uncover gaps, and provide a data-driven foundation for improvement.
Choosing the right competencies starts with understanding the role, the team, and the organization's goals. Typically, you’ll want to assess a mix of:
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Core competencies that apply across the company (like communication or problem-solving)
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Role-specific competencies tailored to the position (like technical expertise or leadership)
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Future-facing competencies needed for growth or transformation
The selection process often involves job analysis, stakeholder input, or reference to frameworks like SHRM, Lominger, or custom models.
The most effective questions are those that ask the respondent to reflect on real-world behaviors, not just knowledge. These often include:
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Behavioral statements rated on a scale (e.g., “I proactively offer feedback to colleagues”)
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Situational judgment items describing a scenario and asking for a preferred action
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Self vs. peer comparisons in 360-style formats
The goal is to measure demonstrated competencies, not just theoretical understanding.
A competency framework is a predefined structure that outlines the skills, behaviors, and attributes needed for success in specific roles or across the organization. It acts as a blueprint.
A competency assessment, on the other hand, is the actual tool or process used to evaluate how individuals perform against that framework - turning the blueprint into measurable data.
To ensure fair and accurate results:
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Use validated frameworks and well-structured rating scales
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Include multiple raters (e.g., manager, peer, self) where possible
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Provide clear instructions and definitions to avoid confusion
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Regularly review results for bias and calibration issues
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Complement assessments with qualitative feedback or follow-up discussions
A well-designed process reduces subjectivity and builds trust in the results.
Pointerpro is a software platform to create your own online assessments, automatically generate personalized reports and manage the distribution of assessments.
Your assessment challenges and objectives are unique to you. So is our pricing. Request your quote and find how we can help you.
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This depends on the plan. You can pay monthly for the Professional and the Enterprise plan.
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Pointerpro’s servers are hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Ireland (EU/EEA) (more info here), the world’s largest and most reliable cloud infrastructure provider. This ensures compliance with EU data protection regulations and guarantees high standards of security and reliability. All our servers are set up redundantly to prevent loss of data or unavailability of any kind. Our SLA with AWS ensures any issue be taken up with the highest priority. Our specialized infrastructure and operations provider keeps a watchful eye to make sure everything is done following the highest standards and operating smoothly. For more info check Pointerpro’s security statement.
We have over 50 languages supported. You can create each assessment and report in one or more languages. You can check the full supported languages list here.
We offer two approaches: Do-it-yourself (DIY) and done-for-you (DFY).
DIY is a hands-on approach to building everything by yourself. We will ensure you learn how to use the key features to build a great assessment and report. Likewise, we’ll support you until you are ready to go live and launch the assessment to the respondents
DFY is the quickest way to get there. Our team will do the heavy lifting here. You will simply share with us the existing version of the assessment and pdf report and we will translate them into Pointerpro. Once we are done, we will teach you how to make changes to it, teach you how to distribute the assessment for you to master your desired workflow. You can reach out to support@pointerpro.com
It’s best to get started right away but our team is there to help you to feel comfortable when using the tool based on your own needs and timings. We also have a clear onboarding process in place.
We offer a do-it-yourself solution to build your own assessments, ranging from personality to skills to cybersecurity, and far beyond. The aim of our platform is to help you leverage your own expertise. That means, we don’t provide any content for your assessments.
Our onboarding process is designed to help you get up and running smoothly - whether you're starting from scratch or already have something in mind! The Onboarding Team will guide you through the key steps to create and launch your assessments and reports with confidence. After the Onboarding, our support team is available whenever you need extra help or have additional questions.
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