Skill assessment for the roles ahead
A skills test shows what someone can do today. We show who can learn what your organization will need next, before you invest.
Looking to practice? Try the practice tests in the Candidate area.
What a skill assessment misses
From today's skills to the skills you need next.
The challenge
A skill assessment measures what someone can do now in a task, tool or subject. It shows who is ready today, and little about who could grow into tomorrow's roles.
Profile the role
Start from the work ahead. A role success profile sets out the behaviors and reasoning the role needs, drafted by AI from the job description and checked by your experts.
Assess potential
Behavioral and cognitive ability assessments run together. Behavior shows how someone is likely to work and adapt; reasoning shows how readily they take in new information.
Decide and develop
Compare people on one consistent standard, then choose who to move into new roles or develop further. Everyone assessed gets feedback they can use, selected or not.
Evidence over inference
Measured directly
Skills platforms infer ability from job titles and CVs. We measure behavior and reasoning with assessments validated against workplace performance.
- Twelve skills potential areas reported
- Linked to independent performance ratings
- Independently reviewed by the BPS
Hidden talent
People in shrinking roles often have potential nobody has measured. Assessment finds them before you pay to hire from outside.
- Open to every employee, not nominees
- Find people managers overlook
- Reskill before you recruit
Fair decisions
Everyone is assessed on the same standard, so selection for reskilling holds up when people ask how it was decided.
- One consistent standard for all
- Feedback for every participant
- Evidence you can explain
Everything you need to assess skills potential
Four parts on one platform, with results written for managers, not psychologists.
Role success profile
The behaviors and reasoning your future role needs, drafted from the job description and agreed with the people who know the work.
Behavioral assessment
Each person's strengths and challenge areas across twelve skills potential areas, linked to independent ratings of workplace performance.
Cognitive ability
Verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning, a strong indicator of how well someone will handle new learning.
Feedback and results
Every participant gets a development report, selected or not. Results sit in Wave Connect and flow into the HR system you already use.
How Ricoh found its digital talent inside
Ricoh could not recruit the digital talent it needed, so it assessed its own office print staff for a nine-month reskilling program.
Around 60%
of Ricoh's first cohort of 70 moved into new digital roles, chosen for potential over existing skills.
Around 4,000
technical staff in scope
2
industry awards in 2021
“It is clear to me that you don’t just present dry lessons about Digital Transformation, but you build a person with the right mindset, and good skills for the future.”
More from our work with Ricoh: Ricoh UK case study
Questions we're asked
Straight answers on skills, potential and taking an assessment.
A skill assessment measures what a person can do now in a specific task, tool or subject, such as a spreadsheet exercise or a coding test. It confirms readiness for current work. It says far less about who can learn the skills your roles will need next.
Skills are what someone has already learned. Potential is how well they are likely to learn, adapt and perform in work they have not done yet. Skills date as roles change, so potential is the better basis for reskilling and mobility decisions. For future leaders, see high-potential talent.
No. Our assessments measure behavior and reasoning, not knowledge of a software package or subject. Where a role needs a technical skill, test it alongside ours. A technical test shows who can do the job today. Ours shows who is likely to keep growing as the job changes, and that is what protects your investment once today's skills date.
We compare each person with a role success profile using behavioral and cognitive ability assessments. Behavioral results are reported against twelve skills potential areas, showing strengths and challenge areas, and every participant receives feedback they can use in their development.
Yes. Ricoh used behavioral, cognitive ability and workplace English assessments to choose employees for a nine-month digital skills program, and around 60% of the first cohort moved into new digital roles. Internal mobility shows how this works across a workforce.
Start with the Candidate area. It explains what to expect, how to prepare and how to reach practice tests for Saville assessments. If the invitation came from another provider, contact the employer who sent it.
Skills tell you today. Potential tells you tomorrow
Tell us which roles you need to fill from within. We'll show you where to start.
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