Laboratory Analyst/Technician Test

The Laboratory Analyst/Technician Test is an online pre-employment screening assessment designed to identify high-quality candidates for laboratory roles by evaluating their core cognitive abilities alongside critical personality traits. The test is untimed but typically takes candidates about 90 minutes to complete. It is divided into two distinct components: a 124-question personality inventory and a 44-item mental ability test covering verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning. Upon completion, hiring managers instantly receive an online report detailing candidate strengths, development areas, and suggested interview questions.

About this Test

Pick the right Lab Analyst or Lab Tech with this job-specific online test.

The Laboratory Analyst/Technician Test is an online pre-employment screening assessment designed to identify high-quality candidates for laboratory roles by evaluating their core cognitive abilities alongside critical personality traits. The test is untimed but typically takes candidates about 90 minutes to complete. It is divided into two distinct components: a 124-question personality inventory and a 44-item mental ability test covering verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning. Upon completion, hiring managers instantly receive an online report detailing candidate strengths, development areas, and suggested interview questions.

Purpose

The Laboratory Analyst/Technician Test helps you identify candidates who have the intelligence, experience, and detail-minded approach to their laboratory work. It shows that candidates can function autonomously, need teamwork, or excel at both. It also helps point out people who are stable, dependable, hard-working, and oriented toward scientific tasks. It will show you who has the integrity to speak up if they see bad practices in the workplace.

What It’s Best Used For

  • Evaluating scientific and detail-oriented focus: Identifying candidates who possess the precise, detail-minded approach and baseline intelligence required for exact laboratory testing and data analysis.
  • Assessing workplace integrity and transparency: Pinpointing individuals who have the strong ethical backbone to speak up and report bad practices, deviations, or contamination protocols in the lab.
  • Predicting autonomy and teamwork styles: Gaging whether a technician can work successfully on their own without constant oversight, work cohesively within a larger crew, or excel at both.
  • Measuring stability and work ethic: Filtering for reliable, stable, dependable, and hard-working applicants before investing company resources into specialized laboratory onboarding and training.
  • Testing core mental reasoning: Verifying raw problem-solving skills, numerical precision, and verbal logic through abstract and text-based testing scenarios.

About the Test

45 minutes.  This test will take most candidates approximately 45 minutes. It consists of 2 parts:

  • An untimed personality assessment
  • An untimed General Cognitive Aptitude Test (includes verbal, numerical, and abstract reasoning)

What the Test Report Gives You

The Laboratory Analyst/Technican Test Report provides a graphical display of scores, an explanation of the candidate’s aptitude results, a list of personality Strengths and Developmental Concerns, and Suggested Interview Questions.

Testing Process

  • Immediate score report upon completion.
  • Proctoring desirable but not required.
  • The use of mobile phones is discouraged.

Options

Contact us to learn how we can customize the Laboratory Analyst/Technican Test content or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.

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Available upon request.

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