Hiring today isn’t just about finding someone who can do the job. It’s about finding someone who will thrive in it.
Skills matter, yes… but so do behaviors, motivation, work style, problem-solving ability, and team fit. With turnover impacting productivity, morale, and revenue across industries, companies can’t afford to guess who is right for a role.
Job-Focused Assessments (JFAs) solve this problem by evaluating the critical hard and soft skills that truly predict job success. Through Talevation and SHL, hiring teams gain a deeper, more accurate, and more fair way to select top talent.
Job-Focused Assessments are short, engaging assessments designed to measure the exact skills, behaviors, and competencies needed for a specific role. Using SHL’s Apta technology and the Universal Competency Framework, each assessment provides a clear view of a candidate’s:
Role readiness
Team fit
Future potential
Competency strengths and gaps
Instead of relying solely on résumés, guesswork, or inconsistent interviews, hiring teams get a single, job-relevant assessment that predicts how someone will perform once hired.
These assessments are designed to solve the biggest challenges in hiring today including speed, fairness, accuracy, and candidate experience.
JFA results correlate directly with job performance. Apta measures observable behaviors that link to real-world outcomes and reduces guessing, gut-feel decisions, and interviewer bias.
Candidates complete an interactive, job-relevant assessment that reflects their actual work. This helps attract committed applicants and deters candidates who may not be the right fit.
Each JFA provides:
A detailed hiring manager report
An interview guide for consistent, structured interviews
A candidate development report ideal for onboarding and 90-day reviews
Your hiring team gets data. Your managers get structure. Your new hires get support from day one.
JFAs are validated to be fair across race, sex, and ethnicity, helping companies make equitable talent decisions and reduce unintended bias.
From entry-level through leadership, SHL offers pre-packaged assessments targeted to the role level and the outcomes that matter most.
Quickly stack-rank applicants against the most critical competencies
Identify top performers early
Make consistent, confident hiring decisions
Reduce turnover
Improve team fit
Increase productivity and performance
Strengthen culture by hiring aligned, motivated people
The candidate development report supports coaching and conversations during:
onboarding
30-, 60- and 90-day reviews
individual development planning
career path discussions
Hiring the right person is only the beginning. JFAs help them succeed long-term.
Using JFAs helps companies:
Hire candidates who are ready to succeed
Measure the competencies most critical for each job
Broaden talent pipelines by evaluating skills rather than résumés
Improve performance with insight-driven hiring
Make decisions backed by real-time dashboards and data
With JFAs, your hiring strategy becomes more agile, informed, and aligned with the true needs of the role.
Talevation partners with SHL to bring Job-Focused Assessments directly to staffing teams, HR departments, and organizations of every size.
Whether your goal is to reduce turnover, improve interview consistency, or make more confident hiring decisions, JFAs give you the clarity you need.
If you’d like help selecting the right assessments or want to see a sample report, let’s talk.
Hire smarter. Develop stronger. Build teams that thrive.