SkillAssess: The Online Assessment Platform for Hiring & Workforce Skills

SkillAssess is Third Bracket's online assessment platform for pre-employment screening and workforce skill profiling — accurate, bias-reduced, AI-scored.

One Skills Assessment Platform, Two Use Cases

SkillAssess works for two different moments: pre-employment screening, to see what a candidate can actually do before you hire them, and workforce skill profiling, to understand what your existing employees can do today. Same underlying engine, two use cases most tools force you to solve with two separate products.

What Makes Our Assessments Accurate

Generic multiple-choice tests measure test-taking ability, not job performance. SkillAssess is built around role-relevant, skills-based assessment design, with AI scoring that reduces the subjective bias that creeps into manual evaluation — so the result reflects the skill, not who's grading it.

From Assessment to Action

An assessment score that sits in a spreadsheet doesn't help anyone. Results from SkillAssess feed directly into Third Bracket's skills intelligence layer — so a completed assessment doesn't just inform one hiring decision, it becomes part of an employee's skills profile used for development, mobility, and succession planning down the line.

80%

Hiring Prediction Accuracy

4

Assessment Types

Real-Time

Scoring & Reporting

100%

Customisable Setup

How SkillAssess Works

Profile, Assess, Report — In Three Steps

01

Profile Your Workforce

Deploy Skill-Profiling Assessments to map every employee's functional and behavioural capabilities against their role's competency requirements — surfacing strengths and development priorities.

02

Assess Your Candidates

Run Hiring Assessments from the Assessment Library or custom setups to evaluate pre-employment candidates on the exact skills each role demands — before any interview.

03

Act on the Reports

Instant Assessment Reports deliver individual scores, cohort comparisons, and workforce-wide skills gap analysis — turning data into hiring and L&D decisions.

SkillAssess Features

Every Assessment Capability You Need

Skill-Profiling Assessments

Map individual and workforce capabilities against your competency framework. Surface strengths, identify development priorities, and feed results directly into LearnFlow learning paths and TalentX IDPs.

Hiring Assessments

Pre-employment evaluations that assess candidates on role-specific skills before any interview. Integrated directly into HireIQ's ATS pipeline for a seamless end-to-end hiring flow.

Assessment Library

A curated bank of ready-to-deploy assessments across roles, functions, and levels. Deploy instantly and customise as needed — no assessment design experience required.

Assessment Setup

Full customisation: question formats (MCQ, scenario, open-response), time limits, access controls, branding, and competency weightings — all configured to your exact requirements.

Assessment Reports

Individual, cohort, and workforce-level reports that translate scores into clear, actionable insights for hiring decisions, L&D planning, and strategic workforce management.

Hire and Develop with Confidence

See SkillAssess in action — from skill profiling and hiring assessments to the library, setup, and reporting suite. Book your walkthrough today.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

A talent assessment platform is software used to evaluate a person's skills, competencies, or job fit — whether that's screening external candidates before hiring or profiling existing employees' skills for internal decisions.

Accurate platforms use role-relevant, structured assessments (rather than generic aptitude tests) combined with consistent, AI-assisted scoring to reduce the variability and bias that come from manual, subjective evaluation.

Candidate assessment typically refers narrowly to pre-hire screening. Talent assessment is the broader term, covering both pre-hire screening and ongoing evaluation of existing employees' skills.

AI can standardize scoring criteria across every candidate or employee, reducing the inconsistency that comes from different human evaluators applying different (and sometimes unconscious) standards.