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Pre-Employment Testing Software

Pre-Employment Testing

What is Pre-Employment Testing Software?

Pre-employment (or pre-hire) testing and assessment is used to measure a variety of factors that contribute to a candidate’s success in a role, ranging from skills, to personality, to cognitive ability and more.​ This software uses psychometric and behavioral assessments to test skills in order for companies to recruit, hire and retain top employees.

Common Features

  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Dashboard
  • Assessment Test Templates
  • 3rd Party Integration
  • Test Customization
  • Online Cloud Platform
  • Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
  • Mobile
  • Pre-Screening Pre-Qualification
  • Assessments
  • Candidate Matching
  • Analytics Reporting

Top Pre-Employment Testing Software

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Products: 6
Next Award: Sep 2025

Top Pre-Employment Testing Software 2024

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HackerRank

HackerRank

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

HackerRank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 1,000 companies around the world. By enabling tech recruiters and hiring managers to evaluate talent objectively at every stage of the recruiting process, HackerRank helps companies hire skilled developers and innovate faster.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Respectful
Badge Winner
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Criteria Corp

Criteria

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Make more informed talent decisions with Criteria’s robust assessment platform. You’ll have access to our entire portfolio of assessments, including aptitude, personality, risk, skills, and emotional intelligence tests. Gain insight into your candidates with easy-to-read score reports and analytics. Plus, you can manage your full candidate pipeline directly in the platform, including customizable candidate communication and helpful automation features. The platform can also help you better manage, understand, and develop your current team members with Talent Insights.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
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TestDome

TestDome

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

TestDome is a provider of high-quality online screening tests for programmers and IT professionals. TestDome uses work sample testing methodology - candidates are checked with small samples of actual work.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair
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The Predictive Index

The Predictive Index

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

The Predictive Index helps businesses and organizations all over the globe overcome workplace challenges through a unique blend of scientific behavioral assessments, groundbreaking software, exceptional management training, and professional consulting from the world's top workplace behavior specialists. The Predictive Index helps companies understand how their people think and work to help employees maximize their productivity.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Effective Service
Mercer HR Consulting, Inc.

Mercer | Mettl Assessments

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Using research-backed assessments, efficient delivery on cloud platform and in-depth analytics, Mettl delivers transformative results for its customers. It creates customized assessments for use across the entire employee lifecycle, beginning with pre-hiring screening and candidate skills assessment, training and development programs for employees/students, certification exams, contests and more.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Reliable
  • Friendly Negotiation
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Paycor

Paycor

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
6.9 /10

Your cloud-based command center, built on client innovation. Paycor provides the foundation for everything you need to manage your people and help you focus on the core of your business.

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Pros

  • Efficient Service
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Less Transparent

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Thomas International Inc

Thomas Talent Assessment

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Thomas is a leading global provider of people assessment tools. We help organizations around the world transform their performance through smarter people decisions, looking beyond just skills and experience to identify the true potential and capability of people. Today we help over 10,000 companies across 140 countries unleash the power of their people. Thomas assessments are straightforward to understand and quick to use, with scientific validity at their core. Our aim is to empower you to use people assessments to create maximum value for your organization.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Talview’s assessment platform is built for speed and supports formats such as multiple choice, essay, typing, aptitude, and complex STEM tests that work across devices and are secured through powerful online proctoring. Talview’s Online Essay Tests provide employers with a configurable tool to easily assess candidates’ reading and writing skills. Candidate actions are recorded via our Advanced Proctor Mechanism to check the authenticity.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Effective Service
iMocha

iMocha

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

iMocha (formerly Interview Mocha) is the world's largest skills assessment solution API platform that helps organizations build winning teams.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Vervoe

Vervoe

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Vervoe predicts job performance using skills assessments that showcase the talent of every candidate. Vervoe helps employers make hiring decisions based on how well candidates can actually do the job instead of how good they look on paper. Vervoe replaces the traditional hiring process with skills assessments and gives every candidate an opportunity to showcase their talent by doing job-related tasks. Then, Vervoe uses machine learning models to automatically rank candidates based on how well they perform.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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