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Build a stronger workforce pipeline
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Pearson’s talent assessments help you hire faster and with confidence. Reveal real skills, potential, and fit so you can make smarter decisions at scale.
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Hiring has never been more challenging
You’re expected to move faster and still get every hire right.
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Skills outrun resumes
Skills change fast and roles evolve, so a resume rarely shows what someone can actually do today or grow into next.
Competition keeps rising
You are expected to secure the right fit before someone else does, and competition for capable people keeps intensifying across every market.
Mis-hires cost you
A bad hire is costly and hard to undo, especially when filling a job that pays $60k can run up to $180k+.
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Credentials are hard to prove
Verifiable skills are replacing traditional signals, so you need tools that show what people can do today and in the future.
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Understand talent beyond the resume
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Choose from five categories of validated assessments, as well as training for test administrators. Each measures something a resume cannot, so you match people to the roles where they are most likely to succeed and grow.
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Cognitive Assessments
Reasoning & agility
Measure reasoning, problem-solving, and learning agility with adaptive tests that are validated for fairness and scale from high-volume hiring to specialist roles.
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Behavioral & Personality Assessments
Motivation & fit
Reveal motivation, work style, and team fit using research-based personality frameworks, engagement drivers, and clear culture and risk indicators.
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Role-Focused Assessments
Job-specific skills
Test the abilities a specific role needs, with job-specific simulations and hands-on tasks, customizable by competency model and validated across industries.
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Applied Judgment Assessments
Real-world scenarios
See how candidates respond to real-world situations through scenario-based judgment testing across communication, ethics, and problem-solving.
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Versant by Pearson
Proficiency & clarity
Verify proficiency and clarity in English and other languages with globally trusted AI-driven scoring across speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
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Training (for administrators)
Confident teams
Help your assessment administrators use results with confidence through guided onboarding, certification options, best-practice interpretation, and ongoing support and dashboards.
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Deliver assessments with confidence
Confidence starts with how you assess. Palladium™ combines secure delivery, real-world evaluation, and actionable insights—so you can move faster and make every decision count.
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Palladium™
Confidence comes from seeing what candidates can really do. Palladium™ gives you a secure, end-to-end assessment experience where candidates complete job-relevant tasks and your team gains clear, validated insights in real time. With consistent evaluation and global benchmarks built in, you can compare talent fairly, reduce risk, and make high-stakes hiring decisions with confidence.
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See the impact of measuring what matters
Skills-based hiring is now the norm, and the organizations that measure capability see the difference.
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of employers say skills assessments matter as much as or more than other hiring criteria.
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of employers already use pre-employment assessments to gauge what applicants can do.
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See what confident hiring looks like
Hear from organizations that already use Pearson assessments to make hiring decisions they can stand behind.
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We use valid evaluation tools that have aided decision-making for over 50 years to measure personality, motivation, and cognitive ability. The result is few probationary breaks and satisfied customers.
Bérangère Abiven
Head of Evaluation Devices and Practices, Selection and Recruitment, Air France
Having a reliable assessment tool that secures recruitment is essential for us.
Claire Gonnet
Employment Manager, MEDIAPOST
The critical thinking assessment is a strong indicator of a candidate's ability to make good, impartial decisions based on solid results. It is a key factor for success within our organization.
Stéphanie Dorcé
Director of Human Resources, Hiscox
Questions hiring leaders ask before they choose
Get answers to the questions talent acquisition and HR teams raise most often when they evaluate assessments for hiring, from fairness to integration to support.
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How do pre-employment assessments actually improve quality of hire and reduce hiring risk?
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Assessments measure what a resume cannot, such as reasoning, judgment, and fit. By focusing on skills and potential, you match people to the right roles, which is why 78% of HR professionals report better quality of hire.
How does Pearson make sure these assessments are fair and relevant to the job?
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Pearson assessments are built on decades of psychometric research and are scientifically validated for fairness and job relevance. Each one is checked so the result reflects capability for the role, not background or chance.
Will these assessments fit into the hiring process and tools my team already uses?
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Pearson delivers assessments that integrate seamlessly into your hiring process, with secure remote delivery and fast results. They sit inside the workflow your team already runs rather than asking you to start over.
What support and training does my team get to use the results with confidence?
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Training for administrators gives your team guided onboarding, certification options, and best-practice interpretation. You also get ongoing support and dashboards, so everyone reads and acts on results the same trusted way.
Which assessment category should we start with if we are new to skills-based hiring?
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Start from the decision you need to get right. Cognitive assessments suit high-volume and specialist hiring, role-focused assessments suit defined jobs, and a Pearson specialist can help you map the rest to your roles.
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See how organizations use Pearson assessments to hire with confidence,then take the next step with a specialist or expert services team.
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Air France hiring
See how Air France strengthens its hiring decisions with psychometric assessments and reports few probationary breaks as a result.
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EDF mobility
See how EDF improves recruitment and internal mobility using personality insight to place people where they fit best.
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CT Engineering hiring
See how CT Engineering Group reduces hiring risk with assessments that bring evidence into every decision.
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Talk to Pearson
Tell us about the roles you are hiring for, and a Pearson specialist will help you map the right assessments to your pipeline.
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