Skills assessments with a pass bar and integrity flags

An assessment is a set of questions with a time limit, built for one role. You can mix five question types:

• Single choice: one right answer, with points for each option.
• Multiple choice: several options, each worth points, including negative points for wrong picks so guessing does not pay.
• Open answer: a written response, scored against a checklist of what a good answer contains.
• Voice recording: the candidate answers out loud, which suits sales, support and language roles.
• Video recording: the candidate shows or explains something on camera.

Open, voice and video answers are scored against a checklist you write, with points per item, so two reviewers reach the same score for the same answer. Once an assessment is live its questions are locked, which keeps every candidate on exactly the same test.

Each assessment has a pass bar, for example 80 out of 100. The bar is the line between "worth an interview" and "not this time", and it is the same line for everyone who takes the test.

With Autopilot switched on, the bar does the work for you: everyone who passed the CV screen gets the assessment, and everyone above the pass bar moves on to the one-way video interview, with the move written to the activity log along with the score and the bar. Without Autopilot you see the same scores and make the moves yourself.

Scores are broken down by part, so you can see where points were won and lost. In a coding task, for example, a candidate might score full marks for correctness and error handling but lose points on an edge case. That breakdown is often more useful in the interview than the total.

Integrity signals are there to start a conversation, not to end one. A candidate who pasted a long block of text may have written it in a notes app first; a candidate who switched tabs may have checked documentation that the job itself would allow. That is why going over a limit flags the submission for human review and never rejects anyone automatically.

Candidates are told what is recorded before they start: paste events, tab switches and long pauses. We never analyse their face or voice tone. Being open about this tends to reduce cheating more than hidden monitoring would, and it keeps the experience respectful for the large majority who are simply doing their best.

When you want to change the questions of a live test, duplicate it as a new version. Title, intro, time limit for new starts, branding and integrity settings can still be changed on the live one.