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Skills assessment for growth: deliver instant personal feedback

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Identify and report on skill gaps to boost individuals, team dynamics, and business success.

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How? With Pointerpro, the all-in-1 assessment software that combines questionnaire building with auto-personalized feedback report generation.

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Used by 1033 businesses, marketing experts and consultants worldwide

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Building automated skills assessments is perfect for:

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Coaches & Consultants

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Assess customers at scale, and instantly offer the feedback and training to get them on track.

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By turning your frameworks into assessments that generate auto-personalized reports.

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Use collected data over time to develop your own benchmark reports.

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HR / L&D leads

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Identify, engage and retain top talent to address today’s and tomorrow’s business needs.

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By auto-generating personalized development plans based on  skill assessments.

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Delegate distribution and follow-up to managers with a Distribution Portal.

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Team managers

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Get the most out of available skillsets and spark growth of individual team members.

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By targeting support based on scoring logic and offering instant, auto-personalized reports.

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Aggregate data to create 360-, benchmark- and full team reports. 

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Create time for human guidance

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Guiding people on their personal path for success isn’t about simply choosing A, B or C. It’s about uncovering meaningful patterns and drawing smart conclusions.

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With Pointerpro you auto-generate personalized action plans and visualize key data insights, for tailored support every step of the way.

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Facilitate decision-making by getting the max out of your skill assessment data

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Knowing that training investments are targeted and effective makes the process so much easier for every stakeholder in talent development.

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Map out any skill gaps and immediately report back with an action plan - based on predefined variables.

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Get assessments
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Feature assessments on your website, intranet or distribute them in e-mail campaigns.

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Evaluate skills to
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Set up questionnaire logic and scoring for ultra-accurate skills analysis, applying your own criteria and formulas.

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Auto-personalize
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Use answers and scores to profile people and deliver ultra-relevant feedback, instantly.

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Use data across
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Send insights to your own LMS or build dashboards on the Pointerpro platform’s Distribution Portal.

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Use effective questions and formulas for well-rounded evaluations

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Pointerpro’s Questionnaire Builder offers 20+ question types and widgets to engage respondents and get the information you need.

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Advanced question logic and a powerful scoring engine transform quantitative input from the respondent into qualitative insights.

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Build skills assessments that advise when others would still analyze

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The bottom line? With Pointerpro you gain employees’, managers’ and other company stakeholders’ trust by delivering concrete value, without any delay.

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You put in the work once. Then your assessments generate personalized feedback reports immediately after respondent completion.

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We integrate with your software stack

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21st-century software needs to be hybrid. That’s why Pointerpro was developed to link up seamlessly with any other business-crucial platform you use:

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Whatever tool is dear to you, via apps like Cloud SQL, Zapier, Make or API it will befriend your Pointerpro account.

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Skills assessment software with a service

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To start building your top-notch assessments and report templates, one of our personal trainers will take you under their wing during 1-on-1 onboarding sessions.

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Once you’re up and running, you continue to have access to around-the-clock support from our international team. Whenever and wherever you are.

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Given the limitless capabilities of the Pointerpro platform, organizations envision audacious assessment projects to catalyze their business. 

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Whatever resources you may lack to manage the scope of your imagination, we can handle for you.

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You think it, we’ll build it.

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Get a custom offer      Download more info

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We’re ISO 27001:2022 certified!

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ISO 27001 certification assures our customers of a steadfast commitment to maintaining the highest standards of information security and safeguarding their valuable data.

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This certification underscores Pointerpro’s dedication to meeting global benchmarks and instilling confidence and trust in the reliability and security of its services.

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Skills assessment FAQ

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Hiring new employees can be a daunting task, with hundreds – sometimes thousands – of applications and a slew of candidates eager to join your team. While there is a learning curve for even the most qualified employees starting in a new role, they need to possess a basic set of skills in order to be successful and happy within the position. The same goes for loyal employees who are taking on different roles within the business. Skills assessments ensure that the candidates and existing employees have a solid understanding and ability to perform the tasks required of them on the job.

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Skills assessments are also helpful to candidates deciding if they want to pursue a specific role within a business. It provides a window into what will be expected of them with their day-to-day work as well as insight into the big picture of their potential position.

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An effective skills assessment typically includes:

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 Keep it focused, relevant to the role or goal, and easy to interpret.

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Pointerpro allows you to build individual as well as “grouped/overview” reports.You can build personalized feedback reports for both assessment takers and the assessment host. You can create a report with more insight and explanation why someone is or isn’t suitable for the job. This way you save a lot of time when going through dozens of potential candidates.

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When you’ve gone through all the candidates, you can send a different report to the assessment tool, with for example the top 5 or top 10 candidates.

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While both measure competencies, a knowledge test evaluates what someone knows - facts, concepts, theories. A skills assessment, on the other hand, also evaluates what someone can do - how they apply that knowledge in real or simulated scenarios. For example, a sales knowledge test might ask about techniques, a skills assessment would most likely also simulate a pitch.

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Start by aggregating results by individual, team, or skill category. Look for:

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Pointerpro is a software platform to create your own online assessments, automatically generate personalized reports and manage the distribution of assessments.

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Our headquarters are based in Belgium, Europe. However, our team is distributed across multiple time zones to ensure responsive support, no matter where you are. This global presence allows us to provide timely and efficient assistance around the clock.
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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) and in Australia for Australian users, 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.

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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.

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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

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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/de

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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.

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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.

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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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We are a global company that serves businesses across every industry with stories similar to yours. Check out our gallery of customer case studies or feel free to ask for some other specific cases we can share.

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An award-winning platform for consultants, coaches, HR managers, and marketers

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