Skills assessment

Skills assessments help ensure employers hire candidates with the right skill set required for the job. These tests not only help narrow the candidate pool, they ensure the candidates are knowledgeable and have the experience required of them on the job.

Use a skills assessment to:

Ensure that candidates possess the needed knowledge and skills to step into a role
Turn your expertise into an assessment that delivers personalized advice at scale
Give immediate feedback to the respondent with a fully branded, personalized report

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Why use Pointerpro as a skills assessment tool?

Intelligent integrations

Automatically transfer all the collected feedback to over 750 apps via Zapier.

Comprehensive reports

With Pointerpro, you’ll receive specialized PDF reports detailing candidates’ responses.

White label option

Remove any mention of Pointerpro with our white label option.

What is a skills assessment?

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.

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.

Why is Pointerpro the perfect tool for your skills assessment?

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. 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.

Tips to create a great skills assessment

Make sure your survey design is clean and questions are straight forward. Your candidates are most likely filling out dozens of applications, so you want to make sure you make your assessment clear as possible as not to take up too much time.
Brand your assessment with the company colors and style to make the assessment look professional. Remember, you are trying to market your company to this candidate as much as they are trying to market themselves to you! This is your opportunity to give them a taste of your business and what they can expect from it.
Vary the question types to keep participants engaged and focused. Your applicants are busy – and most likely stressing about landing their next big career move. Assessments with varied questions will prevent them from zoning out and concentrating elsewhere.

Skills assessment questions

Communication skills assessment – Sell me [insert business product or service]
How would you prioritize your tasks and ensure your supervisor understands what you are doing and why?
Problem solving skills assessment – How would you manage two supervisors giving you conflicting assignments or instructions?
Software skills assessment – How do you create a pivot table within Excel?
Comprehension skills assessment – Describe three product features that would help the business manage its inventory.
Research skills assessment – Which websites would you aim to promote content written for our business?
Decision-making skills assessment – Do you reject the request or grant the customer an extension? Explain your answer.

Here's what our customers say

"We use Pointerpro for all types of surveys and assessments across our global business, and employees love its ease of use and flexible reporting."

Jim McLean

Director at Alere

"I give the new report builder 5 stars for its easy of use. Anyone without coding experience can start creating automated personalized reports quickly."

Nicolas Gounin

CFO & COO at Egg Science

"You guys have done a great job making this as easy to use as possible and still robust in functionality."

Ryan Dicksinson

Account Director at Reed Talent Solutions

“It’s a great advantage to have formulas and the possibility for a really thorough analysis. There are hundreds of formulas, but the customer only sees the easy-to-read report. If you’re looking for something like that, it’s really nice to work with Pointerpro.”