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Pre-Employment Testing Software

Pre-Employment Testing

What is Pre-Employment Testing Software?

Pre-employment (or pre-hire) testing and assessment is used to measure a variety of factors that contribute to a candidate’s success in a role, ranging from skills, to personality, to cognitive ability and more.​ This software uses psychometric and behavioral assessments to test skills in order for companies to recruit, hire and retain top employees.

Common Features

  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Dashboard
  • Assessment Test Templates
  • 3rd Party Integration
  • Test Customization
  • Online Cloud Platform
  • Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • Mobile

Top Pre-Employment Testing Software

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Products: 6
Next Award: Sep 2025

Top Pre-Employment Testing Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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HackerRank

HackerRank

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 1,000 companies around the world. By enabling tech recruiters and hiring managers to evaluate talent objectively at every stage of the recruiting process, HackerRank helps companies hire skilled developers and innovate faster.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
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Criteria Corp

Criteria

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Make more informed talent decisions with Criteria’s robust assessment platform. You’ll have access to our entire portfolio of assessments, including aptitude, personality, risk, skills, and emotional intelligence tests. Gain insight into your candidates with easy-to-read score reports and analytics. Plus, you can manage your full candidate pipeline directly in the platform, including customizable candidate communication and helpful automation features. The platform can also help you better manage, understand, and develop your current team members with Talent Insights.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
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TestDome

TestDome

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

TestDome is a provider of high-quality online screening tests for programmers and IT professionals. TestDome uses work sample testing methodology - candidates are checked with small samples of actual work.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair
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The Predictive Index

The Predictive Index

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

The Predictive Index helps businesses and organizations all over the globe overcome workplace challenges through a unique blend of scientific behavioral assessments, groundbreaking software, exceptional management training, and professional consulting from the world's top workplace behavior specialists. The Predictive Index helps companies understand how their people think and work to help employees maximize their productivity.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Effective Service
Mercer HR Consulting, Inc.

Mercer | Mettl Assessments

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Using research-backed assessments, efficient delivery on cloud platform and in-depth analytics, Mettl delivers transformative results for its customers. It creates customized assessments for use across the entire employee lifecycle, beginning with pre-hiring screening and candidate skills assessment, training and development programs for employees/students, certification exams, contests and more.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Reliable
  • Friendly Negotiation
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Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Indeed Assessments helps you talk to your best candidates faster and hire the right talent by evaluating on-the-job skills and qualities that matter most to your business. Indeed's comprehensive employment assessment library includes a wide range of job levels and industries to let you screen candidates for their aptitude, cognitive abilities, and specific skills that fit your hiring needs.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status
  • Efficient Service
Paycor

Paycor

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
6.9 /10

Paycor’s HR, payroll, and talent platform connects leaders to people, data, and expertise. We help leaders drive engagement and retention by giving them tools to coach, develop, and grow employees. We give them unprecedented insights into their operational data with a unified HCM experience that can seamlessly connect to other mission-critical technology. By providing expert guidance and consultation, we help them achieve business results and become an extension of their teams.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Less Transparent

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Vervoe

Vervoe

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Vervoe predicts job performance using skills assessments that showcase the talent of every candidate. Vervoe helps employers make hiring decisions based on how well candidates can actually do the job instead of how good they look on paper. Vervoe replaces the traditional hiring process with skills assessments and gives every candidate an opportunity to showcase their talent by doing job-related tasks. Then, Vervoe uses machine learning models to automatically rank candidates based on how well they perform.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Cangrade

Cangrade

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Our machine learns the attributes of successful people in your organization, and lets you assess people in real time, instantly identifying candidates most likely to succeed in your organization.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

The eSkill Talent Assessment PlatformTM is a powerful assessment solution that helps you screen large volumes of candidates and instantly identify those who are best qualified, create personalized training plans for employees and new hires, and identify and address knowledge gaps across your entire staff. Clients can use eSkill to create an online test centre to provide candidates with a customized, pre-employment testing experience while they promote their company and increase brand awareness.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity