CORE20™ Tests

The CORE20™ Tests are a set of 4 individually sold assessmenst that assess general clerical, management, psychometric personality and sales/customer service aptitude and cognitive skills, in under 20 minutes.

The new CORE20™ tests are applicant-friendly and are designed to take candidates an estimated 20 minutes or less to complete while still providing valuable objective data to guide your hiring decisions.  Each assessment contains a set of behaviorally-based traits for best job fit, plus a timed cognitive aptitude test.

Feedback reports provide efficient, reliable, detailed results and include one-page summaries as well as supplementary information describing dimension definitions, detailed score interpretations and suggested interview questions.

What It’s Best Used For

• Vetting Office and Administrative Candidates: Using the General Office-20 module to screen administrative assistants tasked with multitasking, handling team communication, and managing general reasoning work.
• Screening Leadership and Supervisors: Deploying the Manager-Supervisor-20 test to evaluate fundamental leadership traits, assertive coaching, team-oriented management, and work drive in current or prospective managers.
• All-Purpose Personality Profiling: Applying the Psychometric Personality and Aptitude-20 version across any industry to measure universal workplace success factors like conscientiousness, emotional resilience, adaptability, and trustworthiness.
• Assessing Sales and Customer Care Fit: Utilizing the Sales Consultant-Customer Service Representative-20 model to target candidates who possess the sales assertiveness, confidence, and motivation required to drive revenue while protecting client satisfaction.
• Rapid High-Volume Hiring: Streamlining early recruitment stages with a highly condensed, valid test format that keeps candidate drop-out rates low by respecting their time.

There are 4 individually sold assessments in the CORE20™ Tests series

CORE20™ Tests – General Office-20

See how our CORE20™ General Office/Clerical Test can qualify candidates quickly.   This brief but thorough screening tool is ideal for employees tasked with a variety of office administration duties while interacting with a diverse group of customers and team members.

The test evaluates:

• General Reasoning
• Competitiveness/Achievement
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Customer Service
• Integrity
• Money Motivation
• Sales Assertiveness
• Social Networking

CORE20™ Tests –  Manager-Supervisor-20

Designed for the employee who is responsible for the performance of his or her direct reports, the Manager/Supervisor-20 assesses fundamental leadership and reasoning capabilities.

The test evaluates:

• General Reasoning
• Assertive Leadership
• Emotional Stability
• Integrity
• Managerial Human Relations
• Openness
• Task Structuring Leadership
• Team-Oriented Management
• Work Drive

CORE20™ Tests – Psychometric Personality and Aptitude-20

An “all purpose” assessment which includes behavioral and aptitude dimensions found to be related to outcomes such as job performance and quality in a variety of jobs and industries.

The test evaluates:

• General Reasoning
• Agreeableness
• Conscientiousness
• Emotional Resilience/Stress
• Tolerance
• Extroversion
• Integrity/Trustworthiness
• Openness to New Experience/Adaptability
• Work Drive

CORE20™ Tests – Sales Consultant-Customer Service Representative-20

Evaluate fit for roles requiring sales & customer service. The aptitude component assesses ability to solve problems and quickly learn new material without prolonged training and supervision.

The test evaluates:

• General Reasoning
• Competitiveness/Achievement
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Customer Service
• Integrity
• Money Motivation
• Sales Assertiveness
• Social Networking

Validity Information: Research forms the basis of the comprehensive pre-employment tests we sell. Our work is reflective of the highest standards of the profession — our research is submitted and accepted for articles in peer-reviewed and scholarly journals.  Most scholarly journals have a tremendous rejection rate — only the best (which can take years to finish) makes it to publication. And since our research is subject to a rigorous critique process within the scientific community, you can be assured the tests we have created are unquestionably valid and reliable.