Pre-Employment Assessments That Help You Hire with Confidence
Identify top candidates faster with validated pre-hire assessments that reduce bias and improve hiring outcomes.
PXT Select® and ProfileXT®
Make Talent Decisions with Confidence—Every Time
Making the wrong talent decision is costly. No one enjoys dealing with high turnover, especially when it can cost up to 30% (or more!) of an employee’s first-year salary, and it compromises your organization’s ability to succeed.
The PXT Select® and ProfileXT® assessments provide your organization objective, reliable data to confidently hire, manage, and retain top talent in today’s evolving workplace. These tools support both traditional talent management and job re-architecture, helping you align roles with emerging skills. Whether hiring remotely or in-person, or redefining existing positions, our insights enable you to build a high-performing, future-ready workforce.
What Is the PXT Select Assessment?
The PXT Select pre-employment assessment is a comprehensive candidate assessment designed to help employers make smarter hiring decisions. The data-backed assessment evaluates how well a candidate fits a specific role by measuring three critical areas proven to predict on-the-job success.
Cognitive Ability
Can they do the job?
Cognitive Ability
Measures a candidate’s capacity to learn, solve problems, and process information-key indicators of job performance across roles.
Behavioral Traits
How will they do the job?
Behavioral Traits
A pre-employment behavioral assessment that reveals work style, communication preferences, and how a candidate is likely to behave under pressure.
Interests Will they enjoy the job?
Interests
Assesses workplace interests to determine longterm role alignment-helping reduce turnover and improve engagement.
Paired with its job-matching feature, the PXT Select assessment enables organizations to evaluate an individual relative to the qualities required to perform a job successfully.
What Is the ProfileXT Assessment?
ProfileXT is the classic version of PXT Select. It is also a “full person” pre-employment assessment. While these products are similar, here are their distinct differences in features:
*Additional fees may apply for the ProfileXT product.
PXT Select and ProfileXT Help You:
- Avoid costly hiring mistakes and reduce turnover
- Establish an efficient hiring and selection process
- Assess all jobs consistently, minimizing the impact of bias
- Improve employee satisfaction, performance, and retention
- Identify talent gaps and focus on leveraging employee strengths
How Does Pre-Hiring Testing Work?
Create Benchmarks for Success
Before assessing an individual, our team of experts helps you develop performance models for the jobs you need to fill. A performance model is a benchmark you will compare individuals against to establish the degree of job-person fit.
Assess for Job Fit
The HR administrator or hiring manager schedules candidates online. Candidates receive a link and can complete the assessment online.
Receive Actionable Data
The system instantly scores the assessment and sends the requested reports to the hiring manager and anyone else who would like to view them. The reports will show the comparison between the Performance Model and your candidate’s personality traits. This will establish the degree of job fit. The hiring manager uses these results to screen the candidate or assist in the process of interviewing, selecting, and onboarding.
Download Sample ReportPXT Select measures the full view of a person including, thinking style, behavioral traits, and interests.
Thinking Style
Behavioral Traits
Interests
Thinking Style
Also known as cognitive ability, this is the number one predictor of success on the job. It defines how a person processes information for problem-solving, communication, and learning skills. Learn how a candidate will use and interpret verbal and numeric information to meet the challenges of the role.
Behavioral Traits
This portion of the assessment measures a person’s key tendencies, preferences, and job behaviors. Learn, for example, if a candidate tends to be cooperative and work within the rules or if they tend to set their direction and act independently.
1 - ENTERPRISING
An Enterprising interest suggests the enjoyment of leadership, presenting ideas, and persuading others. Individuals with this interest may desire responsibility and exercise initiative, ambition, and resourcefulness.
2 - PEOPLE SERVICE
A People Service interest suggests the enjoyment of collaboration, compromise, and helping others. It may indicate a strong sense of empathy and support and a knack for bringing people together.
3 - FINANCIAL/ADMIN
A Financial/Admin interest suggests the enjoyment of working with numbers, organizing information, and office routines such as record-keeping and completing paperwork. It could indicate an eye for detail and a desire for accuracy.
Interests
This section helps predict motivation and potential satisfaction with a given job. The more their interests align with what the job requires, the more they will enjoy it. This is critical because we know that people who are happier in their jobs are more productive, more effective, and more engaged.
Benefits of Pre-Employment Skills Testing
- Outlines a candidate’s potential strengths and challenge areas.
- Provides suggested interview questions and “Listen For” statements to help you navigate through the selection process.
- Access to Performance Model Library of 100+ models.
- Not in the library, not a problem. We have multiple methods to help you create the benchmark you need.
- Multiple reports at no additional cost. You get access to Selection Reports, Individual Reports, Coaching Reports, Team Reports, and much more!
Time to Take
Approximately 40-60 minutes. No proctoring or supervising required.