Skill Accelerators Assessment

Skill Accelerators

Role-agnostic, future-readiness attributes that indicate how quickly a candidate can learn, adapt, and thrive as work changes. They predict the capacity to up-skill fast and sustain performance in dynamic environments.

The Skill Accelerators Assessment evaluates the future-readiness attributes that help candidates ramp up quickly and sustain performance as roles evolve.

• Modern candidate experience: Image-led items designed for clarity, cultural neutrality, and engagement - optimised for mobile and accessible language.
• Built for recruiting speed: Clear 1–5 scores with plain-English indicators make screening and stakeholder debriefs straightforward.
• Development-friendly: Insights hand over cleanly to hiring managers and L&D for onboarding goals and growth plans.

The 5 Skills Accelerators

• Curious Exploration – Seeks learning by exploring, questioning, and experimenting; fuels continuous upskilling.
• Growth Ambition – Pursues stretch goals with confidence and self-belief; sustains progress in fast-moving contexts.
• Enduring Resolve – Rebounds from setbacks constructively; applies optimism and resilience under pressure.
• Dynamic Agility – Navigates change, ambiguity, and limited clarity; flexes approach as conditions shift.
• Collaborative Synergy – Builds warm, trusting relationships; listens openly and brings others with them.

Why organisations choose it

• Hire for potential, fast: Measure the five future-readiness accelerators that predict ramp up speed and growth - in a single ~10-minute assessment.
• Plug into any role: Pair Accelerators with your role profile (or with selected soft skills later) to predict learning agility and adaptability across job roles.
• Development-ready: Hand hiring insights straight to hiring managers and L&D to shape onboarding goals and stretch plans without re-assessment.
• Fair and scalable: Small group differences, solid reliability, and a modern, mobile-friendly candidate journey that supports completion at volume.

Reporting outputs

• Practitioner Report: 1–5 profiles for each Accelerator, with concise, business-relevant interpretation.
• Candidate Report: Supportive narrative feedback to build self-insight and adoption.

Reliability (internal consistency, n=201)

• Overall range α = 0.62–0.77
  • Curious Exploration: 0.77
  • Growth Ambition: 0.66
  • Enduring Resolve: 0.62
  • Dynamic Agility: 0.65
  • Collaborative Synergy: 0.72

Fairness (group differences, effect sizes)

• Gender: small differences across all five Accelerators (e.g., Collaborative Synergy +0.12 for females vs males).
• Age (<40 vs 40+): small differences (e.g., Dynamic Agility +0.27 for 40+).
• Ethnicity (Asian/Black vs White): small differences across Accelerators (e.g., Growth Ambition +0.18 Asian/White).

Overall, observed differences are generally small, supporting fair decision-making when applied appropriately.

Construct validity

• The Skill Accelerators show positive, moderate inter-correlations (e.g., Growth Ambition – Dynamic Agility, r = .40), indicating that while each Accelerator measures a distinct aspect of performance, they are designed to work together as part of an integrated model of future-readiness.

Criterion validity (self-reported outcomes)

• Collaborative Synergy → Performance r = .28; Engagement r = .33
• Growth Ambition → Performance r = .25; Engagement r = .28
• Additional positive relationships observed for Curious Exploration and Dynamic Agility with Performance/Engagement.

Face validity (candidate experience from trials)

• Majority agreed the assessment is accurate/objective, engaging, and easy to complete—supporting acceptance and completion rates.

Ongoing client studies will expand criterion evidence with manager ratings and role-specific skill/outcome linkages.

Sova's assessments are created by our experienced team of esteemed occupational psychologists, specialists in psychometric and skills assessment. Built on scientific research and industry best practices, each assessment is peer-reviewed, validated with real-world data, and continuously refined to ensure fairness, accuracy, and predictive power.

With Al-driven analytics and rigorous validation, Sova delivers assessments that help organisations make confident, data-backed hiring decisions.

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