HIRING ASSESSMENT

Hire the right people.
Not the best interviewers.

A science-backed assessment built around the real hiring question: how likely is this person to perform well in this exact role, in this exact context?

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THE PROBLEM

Most hiring decisions still overweight the wrong signals.

CVs, interviews, and intuition all have their place. But on their own, they are often weak predictors of whether someone will actually perform well in a specific role, in a specific team, under specific demands.

The point is not to hire faster. It is to put the right people in the right seats with far higher accuracy.

BETTER DECISIONS

What the Hiring Assessment helps you decide.

The key question in hiring is not who interviews best. It is:

Who has the highest probability of performing well in this exact role?

Who fits not just formally, but also into the existing team?

Where are likely friction points with the team or hiring manager?

Which candidates bring role-critical behavioural patterns?

Whose intrinsic drivers actually align with the role, and whose do not?

ASSESSMENT SIGNALS

The four signals behind the decision.

01

Problem Solving

How quickly someone recognizes patterns, learns from new information, and handles complexity.

02

Personality

Stable behavioural tendencies such as conscientiousness, assertiveness, collaboration style, and pressure response.

03

Intrinsic Drives

Which kinds of work, environments, and responsibilities naturally energize someone — and which tend to drain or slow them down.

04

Agency / Locus of Control

How strongly someone takes ownership, acts proactively, and sees themselves as able to influence outcomes.

HOW TO USE IT

A better input for judgment.

The assessment is not there to replace human judgment. It is there to strengthen it with a structured, science-backed signal — especially where CVs and interviews alone are noisy, incomplete, or misleading.

WHERE IT CREATES VALUE

Most valuable where the cost of getting the decision wrong is real.

01

Roles with meaningful performance leverage

Where one strong hire materially changes execution, outcomes, or growth.

02

Hires where mistakes are expensive or culturally visible

Especially when a weak fit creates drag far beyond one seat.

03

Processes with several plausible candidates

When the question is no longer who is qualified, but who is most likely to perform.

04

Teams that want hiring to become more systematic

More consistency, better differentiation, and fewer decisions driven by noise.

LONG-TERM IMPACT

What a better hiring system creates over time.

01

Fewer mis-hires and fewer avoidable follow-on costs

02

A higher hit rate on strong hires

03

Better prioritisation when several candidates look good on paper

04

Lower drag from turnover, re-hiring, and repeated search

05

A hiring system whose quality compounds instead of scattering

The real ROI is not just time saved or costs reduced. It is that a company makes better talent decisions, more consistently, and that compounds into stronger execution over time.

Traitwise gives us signal you normally only get after the probation period. We caught red flags early and avoided expensive mis-hires because of it.
Sven MöllmeierManaging Director, LIQID
PRICING

Simple pricing for different hiring needs.

From occasional hires to ongoing hiring needs. Interpretation and support from our I/O psychologists is included in both subscription tiers.

Single Assessment 
89
one-time

One assessment per candidate

For occasional needs or to get started

SubscriptionBest for ongoing hiring
890
/ month

Unlimited assessments

Interpretation and support included

Subscription PlusWhite labelling + ATS integration
1,190
/ month

Unlimited assessments

Interpretation and support included

The same core assessment can also be used in a team setting to surface collaboration patterns, blind spots, and leadership implications.

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