Saville's behavioural and cognitive assessments are now available within Sova, so talent acquisition, HR and people leaders can run assessments across any role, from graduate to professional and leadership, in one place, to the same standard.
London, 12 October 2026. Sova, the talent intelligence platform behind people decisions in large organisations, today announced a partnership with Saville Assessment that makes Saville’s behavioural and cognitive assessments, already used by organisations in more than 180 countries, available within the Sova platform. Together, Sova and Saville give talent acquisition, HR and people teams the right assessment at every level, from volume and early careers hiring to professional and leadership appointments, and on into development and mobility.
People teams are being asked to hire faster, show every decision is fair and defensible, and find real ability in applications AI may have written. Most do it with a different assessment provider at each level: one for graduate intakes, another for senior appointments, a third for development. The results don't compare, and the evidence gathered at hire rarely reaches the decisions that come after it.
The Sova platform runs assessment at scale, integrated with ATS and HCM systems people teams already use. It takes Sova’s own assessments, third party assessments, and organisations’ own content, validates them to the same standard, and produces a single, actionable report. Saville's assessments now run within it. People teams can choose Sova or Saville assessments at each level and plan them as one programme, with every result stored in the same place, creating a single source of truth for people decisions.
What it means for people teams:
- Saville's science enhances Sova's intelligence layer. Organisations using Sova can now access Saville's behavioural and cognitive assessments, without adding a new system. Available in more than 40 languages, Saville's assessments have the highest validity on the market when it comes to predicting performance, reducing the risk of a bad hire from 1 in 5 to just 1 in 50.
- One platform, one process and one contract for every assessment. Saville's assessments run through the same automated process as Sova's own, from invites and reminders to stage gates and progression, without the need for a new system or login.
- A foundation for understanding performance. Results from Sova and Saville assessments sit in Sova's single data model. That gives organisations a base to build on, so that over time they can look at which skills best predicted performance in their own roles, and hire for those again.
Iain Eagling, Chief Operating Officer at Sova, said:
“Most large organisations use several assessment platforms, each with its own scale and its own reports, so the evidence rarely adds up to a clear view of what works. Bringing Saville's well-established science onto the Sova platform, alongside assessments built by our own occupational psychologists, means every result is held to one standard in one place. That gives organisations the talent intelligence to see, over time, which decisions predicted performance.”
Hannah Mullaney, Chief Commercial Officer at Saville Assessment, said: "
"We're really excited about this partnership. The people decisions that cost the most to get wrong shouldn’t come down to instinct. That’s why clients come to us: our assessments are proven to predict who will perform. This partnership brings that same science to Sova’s clients, and now we can offer ours so much more alongside that, from AI readiness to technical skill assessments and video interviews, in one candidate journey with every result in one place, so they can see what’s working. Our research tells us clients want fewer vendors and solutions that work together, and that's exactly what this gives them. And for Sova's clients, it means Saville's science is there for the decisions that matter most."
Saville’s assessments are available within the Sova platform from today in EMEA and APAC.
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About Sova
Sova is a talent intelligence platform for large organisations. It runs assessment at scale, takes in results from any provider, and turns them into one comparable result teams can use inside the systems they already work in, from first assessment to next promotion. Leading enterprises such as Unilever, Experian, Vodafone, TUI and Sky, use Sova to run millions of assessments globally. Find out more at sovaassessment.com.
About Saville Assessment
Saville Assessment helps organisations put the right people in the right roles, powered by science. Built on its own Wave® model, that predicts workplace performance more accurately than any other tool on the market, Saville's assessments are used in 180+ countries and 40+ languages, across hiring, development and internal mobility. Find out more at savilleassessment.com.
Media contacts
- Sova: [Sabina Reghellin, sabina.reghellin@sovaassessment.com]
- Saville Assessment: [Rachel Frost, rachel.frost@savilleassessment.com]
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