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Three New Microsoft 365 Skills Tests are Here!

Identifying the best candidates who are proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is easy with the latest Office 365 Skills test. The newly updated assessments support Office 365 and enable…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Illustrait competencies now available in downloadable data reports

If you’re using Illustrait to get targeted insights into your candidates’ competency potential for a specific job, we have great news! You can now include the relevant Illustrait competencies in your…

Updated by Sean Welch

Illustrait is Here!

Criteria customers can get an accurate, targeted picture of their candidates’ personality and competency potential with an adaptive assessment that’s made for work. Illustrait is our shiny new person…

Updated by Sean Welch

New for Video Interviews

Our video interview feature has been available in our Criteria platform for a year now and have been busy behind the scenes expanding its functionality.

Updated by Amy Thomas

Automatically Assign Teams in Talent Insights

You've told us that you find value in using Talent Insights in your organization, but it takes time to set up and maintain the different teams your organizations has. This is especially challenging f…

Updated by Sean Welch

Talent Insights Admins Now Able to Import Employees EPP Results!

As a HR Manager, you want to equip your organization's managers with tools they can use to more effectively onboard and communicate with their new hires. You also want to help improve your employees'…

Updated by Sean Welch

Reasonable Adjustments for Video Interviewing

Our one-way (also known as “asynchronous”) video interviewing tool helps you to create a structured interview process that’s objective, fair and minimizes bias. Sometimes, however, a reasonable adjus…

Updated by Sean Welch

Customize the reminder emails your candidates receive!

As a recruiter or hiring manager, you want to effectively communicate with your candidates when inviting them to complete assessments or a video interview. Being able to customize your messaging to y…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Get More Out of Your Data With Our Analytics Dashboard!

We are very pleased to introduce you to our Analytics Dashboard! Criteria’s analytics expertise and data asset is deep and wide, and we want our customers to benefit from this. We want you to be able…

Updated by Amy Thomas

“Create Job” updates make matching job titles and choosing assessments easier

We’re introducing a few improvements to make it easier to select the right assessments for the job your are hiring for.

Updated by Amy Thomas

On-site testing

We are very happy to announce that we have now made it even easier to schedule your candidates to complete testing in a supervised environment.

Updated by Amy Thomas

Improved Job Creation Process Makes Using Structured Interviewing Easier!

When it comes to identifying the right person for the job and your organization, you need a clear, objective understanding of who they really are – their abilities and aptitudes, their behavioral att…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Introducing Our New Results Page!

Our Results page has undergone a redesign and is now sleek, streamlined and able to display your candidates' results on one page.

Updated by Amy Thomas

Expanded Options for Setting Time Limits on Candidate Invitations

Setting an expiry date on a candidate's invitation to complete an application, assessment or video interview enables you to set limits for each step in your recruitment process. It allows you to incr…

Updated by Amy Thomas

We've made some changes to our Recommended Test Batteries and Suggested Score Ranges!

At Criteria we continually collect new test data for a wide range of jobs across the country and the world. The high volume of testing we do gives us the opportunity to regularly refine and update th…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Refreshed style for the Cognify assessments

As part of our ongoing effort to provide a more consistent assessment experience for your candidates, we're making some updates to the appearance of the Cognify and UCognify assessments. These change…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Send Automated Reminders For Candidates To Complete Assessment Tasks

You can now automatically remind your candidates of an assessment task, even if you have not set an expiration date.

Updated by Amy Thomas

WTMA inclusion in Talent Signal!

The Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude (WTMA) is now included in the calculation of your candidate's Talent Signal. This change will be applied to any existing jobs as well as your newly created jobs.

Updated by Sean Welch

Combine Assessments and Video Interview in One Step for Your Candidates to Complete!

To compound the strongest talent signal , we recommend using both assessments and video interviewing, because the more objective and accurate data you have about people, the more robust your talent d…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Introducing Live Interviewing!

We are thrilled to announce that Live Interviewing is now available!

Updated by Amy Thomas

Talent Signal: Keeping your Candidates in Order Just Got Easier!

A quick and easy way to prioritise candidates for high-volume hiring... Criteria’s Talent Signal helps you prioritise candidates by giving your recruitment teams an additional data point to rank mult…

Updated by Amy Thomas

Managing Your Video Interview Content Just Became Easier!

Your Interview Content Library has undergone a makeover and has many exciting new features! Learn more here.

Updated by Amy Thomas

Access Your Candidates' Application, Assessment and Video Interview Data In One Report!

At times, you may want to export your candidates' data out of your Criteria account to complete your own analyses, review aggregate candidate performance, or maintain compliance with your internal pr…

Updated by Amy Thomas