Graduate +8.0

The Graduate + 8.0 Job Focused Assessment is a short, targeted, globally applicable assessment to help you identify graduates with the highest potential to contribute and succeed. It also provides actionable feedback to help you onboard new hires.  It is designed for professional level positions appropriate for recent college graduates.  Sample tasks for these jobs include, but are not limited to: gathering requirements, analyzing data, managing projects, producing products or services.

Taking an average of 37 minutes to complete online in a secure, unproctored environment, this 99-question multiple-choice test evaluates a blend of core behavioral traits and interactive cognitive abilities. Instead of just looking at academic grades, it delivers an objective look at how well a candidate can handle everyday professional responsibilities like analyzing complex data, managing project timelines, and adapting to workplace changes.

Potential job titles that use this solution include: Engineer, Human Resource Consultant, Business Analyst, Data Scientist, and IT Analyst.

What It’s Best Used For

• Vetting Entry-Level Professionals: Screening incoming university and college graduates early in the recruitment pipeline for roles like Engineers, Business Analysts, Data Scientists, HR Consultants, and IT Analysts.
• Evaluating Cognitive & Learning Potential: Pinpointing candidates who can integrate complex facts, learn new software or techniques easily, and solve problems efficiently.
• Predicting Independent Project Success: Identifying self-directed professionals who naturally use their time efficiently, work to high quality standards, and take personal responsibility for their outcomes.
• Assessing Cultural & Team Fit: Measuring an applicant’s innate ability to foster team cohesion, build strong working relationships, and cope positively with setbacks or constructive criticism.
• Optimizing the Onboarding Process: Using the assessment’s actionable report feedback to tailor training, mentorship, and development tracks directly around a new hire’s unique blind spots.

Job Levels: Graduate, Entry Level, Professional
Language: English (USA), English International, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Chinese Simplified, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese Traditional, Turkish, Romanian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic, Polish,
Average Testing Time: 37 minutes
Number of Questions: 99
Number of Sittings: One
Designed for Unproctored Environment: Yes
Question Format: Multiple Choice, Forced-Choice

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies Measured

Graduate Potential: This is a measure of potential for graduate success across industry type and functional area. This trait is characterized by the potential to learn and solve problems, the ability to work quickly and efficiently, and the tendency to be goal-driven.

Takes Responsibility: This measures the extent to which the candidate is accountable for work outcomes and accepts responsibility when things go wrong.

Fosters Team Cohesion: This measures the extent to which the candidate energizes the team and keeps them cohesive.

Maintains Good Working Relationships: This measures the extent to which the candidate puts effort into developing good relationships with others.

Analyzes Information: This measures the extent to which the candidate identifies key factors and integrates information to understand data or situations.

Learns Quickly*: This measures the extent to which the candidate picks up new information and techniques easily.

Generates New Ideas: This measures the extent to which the candidate creates innovative approaches.

Uses Time Efficiently: This measures the extent to which the candidate manages own time and delivers work on schedule.

Works to High Quality Standards: This measures the extent to which the candidate completes every task with a high degree of quality.

Adapts to Change: This measures the extent to which the candidate accepts and adapts to changes without difficulty.

Copes with Setbacks and Criticism: This measures the extent to which the candidate stays positive when facing difficulties and does not dwell on negative events.

Strives to Achieve: This measures the extent to which the candidate sets demanding goals and makes a determined effort to meet or exceed them.

* These competencies are a composite of the behavioral assessment as well as Cognitive: Graduate, an interactive test of general cognitive ability.