Assessments

Accurately assess the true potential of your candidates

Make better hiring decisions with scientifically validated, bias-free assessments that save you time and deliver accurate, actionable insights.

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Tailored Assessments

Make the right hire, every time

Deliver scientifically reliable assessments that align with your company's competency framework, culture and values. Assess candidates on the values, motivation, and skills your company is looking for and increase the accuracy of your hiring decisions.

Combine cognitive, personality, and technical skills assessments to evaluate candidates holistically and get a complete picture of their potential.
Tailored Assessments

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Personality Questionnaires
Gain insights into the core traits and behaviors of your candidates. Understand how individuals interact with others, approach their work, and fit within your company culture.
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Motivation Questionnaires
Understand what drives your candidates and what they find engaging in the workplace and create the conditions for individuals to thrive.
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Competency Questionnaires
Assesses core skills, behaviours, and strengths to identify candidates best suited for success in specific roles and within your organisation's culture.
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Situational Judgment Tests
Evaluate how candidates handle realistic, job-related scenarios. Measure decision-making, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, and assess how they might perform in real-world situations.
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Logical Reasoning
Assess candidates ability to process abstract data, problem solving, and critical thinking skills. Predict job performance and potential for complex roles.
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Verbal Reasoning
Measure your candidates' ability to understand, analyse, and interpret written information.
Available as a foundation or as an advanced assessment, for different job role requirements.
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Numerical Reasoning
Evaluate your candidates' ability to process numerical information and work with data. Available as a foundation or as an advanced assessment, for different job role requirements.
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Learnability Tests
Determine how quickly and effectively candidates can acquire new knowledge and skills. Ideal for early careers programs and for roles that require continuous adaptation to new challenges.
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Checking & Accuracy Tests
Evaluate candidates' attention to detail and ability to quickly spot errors and ensure they can deliver precise and reliable work in fast-paced environments.
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Skills Assessments
Evaluate the specific technical or professional skills of your candidates.
Throughout the project, the Sova team have been professional, efficient and responsive. They applied their collective psychometric and digital expertise to understand what we needed and shape the right solution to meet our objectives. Personable and fun to work with, we are excited to have Sova as our assessment partner of the future.
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Heather Byass
Talent Assessment Manager
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Pre-built assessments
Pre-built Assessments

Assessments for all your use cases

Adapt your assessment process case by case with validated blended assessments for Early Careers, Volume Hiring, Senior Leadership Roles, and more.
Interactive Assessments

Create an engaging assessment experience

Keep candidates engaged with interactive, modern assessments designed to provide a smooth and intuitive experience.

There's a reason why 97% of candidates are satisfied with their experience using Sova: from gamified assessments to image-based personality questionnaires (PQs), we have something for everyone.
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Reports and Analytics

Get faster, more accurate insights

Make quick, informed hiring decisions backed by data and easily share reports between teams for enhanced collaboration and transparency.

Create automated candidate feedback reports and leverage historical recruitment data to identify the predictors of future success.
Sova is now an integral part of our volume hiring process and provides candidates with a far superior experience. The feedback from candidates is invaluable and we continue to work closely with Sova to enhance our processes for the future.
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Helen Williams
Talent Acquisition Manager
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Integrations

Invite candidates to assessments and see results in your ATS

Sova plugs right into your ATS enabling you to invite candidates to assessments, track results, and automate progress through hiring stages effortlessly.

Start your journey to faster, fairer, and more accurate hiring

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SOC 2 Type II (ISAE-3000), SOC 3, GDPR, DPA, CCPA, HIPAA/HITECH Type 1 - We cover all leading standards, reports, and requirements to ensure the protection of your and your candidates' data.
Dedicated expert support
With dedicated implementation and customer success teams, 24/7 tech support, and qualified business psychologists, we are here to ensure that you're using the right assessments for your specific needs correctly.
FAQs

Frequently asked questions

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Does a tailored assessment always include the same question types?
No – the content is completely bespoke based on the organisational and role requirements. Sova works closely with our clients to understand what success looks like and designs assessments that reflect this.
How do you ensure validity?
We have a database of questions that have demonstrated relaibilty and validity across a range of settings. We also pilot any tailored assessments to ensure predictability within the role/organisation.
Can we add our own imagery and videos to a customised assessment?
Absolutely – we can add a different image or video per question and also alongside any informative text.
How do I know which assessment to use?
Sova will help you to understand what is needed for success in your organisation and role. Once you know this, we will be in a better position to select the best assessments for you. We can take account of how long you want the assessment to be, how you wish to use it and what you need to measure to ensure you have a fit for purpose assessment. It might be that you opt to use our blended assessment approach, which enables you to pick and choose from our assessment database.
How long do the Sova assessments take to complete?
The short answer is, they vary. We have off the shelf assessments that take 5 minutes and others that take around 25. Further, we can customise an assessment to suit your needs so if you are looking for a short, focused assessment we can provide that but if an in-depth assessment is what you are looking for, we can ensure you have that richness of information too. As an example, the full personality questionnaire takes around 20-25 minutes to complete but if you opt to use the full questionnaire, you have access to 18 different reports.
What is the reliability of your assessments?
When designing an assessment, we work towards the standards used by the European Federation of Psychologists Association Review Model for the Description and Evaluation of Psychological Tests (The EFPA Review Model). The British Psychological Society use this model. As we have a wide range of assessments, it is difficult to answer in one response but for example, the average internal consistency reliability for the Personality Questionnaire’s standard 18 traits is 0.80, which is well above the EFPA criteria. The Motivation Questionnaire average is 0.84. As a further example, the test: re-test reliability of our cognitive tests is on average 0.77.
What is the validity of your assessments?
When designing an assessment, we work towards the standards used by the European Federation of Psychologists Association Review Model for the Description and Evaluation of Psychological Tests (The EFPA Review Model). The British Psychological Society use this model. As we have a wide range of assessments, it is difficult to answer in one response plus, there are many different types of validity.  Our off the shelf assessments have been validated across multiple roles and sectors and we typically advise our clients to pilot and validate assessments where possible. Typical criterion validity studies that we have reported see varied significant correlations that can be classed as ‘moderate’ all the way though to ‘very strong’. Suffice to say, we have a strong and growing evidence base.
What are the benefits of using a pre-built assessment?
If you are keen to keep costs down and to be ready to go more quickly, our pre-built assessments can help. Making them available to you on our platform is simple to do and we have plenty of supporting collateral to help you use our assessments. There is no upfront time needed to design the assessment for you.
What training do I need to use your pre-built assessments?
We ask for there to be someone trained in the use of ability and personality assessment in your organisation but many of our reports have been developed so that hiring managers, for example, can use and interpret them with no risk. We do have some reports that we advocate only being shared with trained users (e.g., the Derailment Report).

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