Precision assessment

in a changing world

Sova Assessment Brings:

Precise, focused assessment

One assessment combining personality, ability and situational questions. Built around your competencies and brand. No time is wasted on unneeded questions, affording greater precision, fairness and time efficiency.

Built for the mobile world

Fully mobile enabled, offering ease of access to candidates wherever they are.

Putting decisions in your hands

Dynamic reporting and mobile accessible results for hiring managers- no training required.

Why

We believe psychometric assessment must be both precise and deliver a great experience for your candidates.

Too often, however, psychometric assessment has felt over-complicated and cumbersome, involving long off-the-shelf questionnaires and tests, and output that’s hard to decipher.

Imagine an assessment platform that allows the creation of highly bespoke, precise and relevant assessments, combining content from personality, ability, motivation and situational judgment (SJT) domains. As opposed to asking candidates to first complete an SJT, then an ability test, and lastly a personality questionnaire. It’s a bit like choosing songs from different artists and genres and creating your own playlist, instead of having to listen to the whole album.

SOVA assessments allows you to do just that. Plus it’s the only psychometric solution that is fully mobile-friendly and accessible on any device, thereby enabling organisations to create an innovative candidate experience that truly stands out from the usual off-the-shelf options.

In a world where by 2020, an estimated 85-90% of applications will be via mobile, compatibility will no longer be optional but an expectation. Candidates will want to complete tests at their convenience, and waste no time on unneeded questions, affording greater precision, fairness and time efficiency. Recruiters and hiring managers need to have the results at their fingertips, at the click of a button – dynamic, intuitive reporting and mobile accessible results without having to go through lengthy formal trainings or accreditation.

Our assessment platform is a unique, innovative online testing solution, tailored to your roles and your organisation, whilst keeping the design rigour of high quality psychometric assessment. It can be used as a standalone system or integrated into your existing Application Tracking System and recruitment work flows.

About

Sova Assessment is a dynamic and fast growing company made up of passionate organisational psychologists and technologists. We believe the world of psychometric assessment needed to change, and organisations shouldn’t have to wait any longer.

The business was founded in 2015 by Dr Alan Bourne, an experienced product developer and innovator in the world of psychometric assessment. Our team combines deep psychometric expertise, creativity and contemporary technology to transform the user experience and deliver business impact.

Improved quality of hire through greater precision and relevance

Minimised adverse impact through balanced content

Engaging experience for candidates

Enhanced retention through better candidate fit to role and culture

Making decision-making both precise and easier for recruiters and HR teams

Watch how Sova make assessment simple

See how we do it

Take a quick look at our video intro to Sova assessments and learn how we deliver psychometric assessments simply and effectively…

CONSULTING

Leadership assessment and coaching

Assessment of your key people using a blend of behavioural, psychometric and depth techniques. We help clients understand the strengths and risk associated with their key leaders and support subsequent leadership development and coaching to optimise performance.

Assessment programme design and delivery

Alongside online assessment within hiring and talent programmes, face to face or virtual exercises are a key component for final stage assessment of candidates or within talent development settings. We develop bespoke assessment programmes end to end for our clients.

Psychometric and assessment skills training

Briefings and programmes for recruiters, L&D professionals and hiring managers designed around your needs. This may include use of psychometrics (application, interpretation and feedback) and broader assessment skills.

ANALYTICS

Companies are increasingly looking at the issue of ‘Big Data’, how to generate real value from the digital information they hold
Predictive use of operational and customer data has developed significantly over the last decade.

However, 73% of companies report not having the analyst capability in-house for people analytics. And 87% of companies also report not having the technology or systems to leverage the people data they hold as effectively as they would like ((Cornell).

HR is perhaps the ‘last frontier’ for enhanced analytics to help maximise business value. To help clients cross this terrain successfully, we offer:

Targeted research packages

To resolve key people questions that will make a bottom line difference to your organisation.

Actionable reporting

So that your on-going data can be converted into actionable guidance and positive benefit.

Training in-house teams

To develop your own sustained capability for people analytics.

Works across multiple devices

ASSESSMENT

Our assessments are built around your needs, rather than imposing an off the shelf solution that is unlikely to be adequately precise or relevant. Rather than offering multiple tests, we build one combined assessment bringing together the content you need (be that personality, ability, motivation or situational judgment). It’s a bit like choosing songs from different artists creating your own playlist, instead of having to listen to the whole album.

Mapped assessments

Most relevant for roles where there are a moderate number of applicants or internal candidates to be assessed, balancing precision and cost effectiveness.

These assessments involve mapping our existing question banks to your our competency model or framework. Typically a mapped assessment will include personality, ability and/or motivation questions combined into one assessment experience.

Fast to implement, they provide a high quality tailored solution that delivers both focused assessment and a fully branded candidate experience mapped to your own framework.

Outputs include a fully branded assessment built around your framework, branded user experience and dynamic reporting and interview guides via mobile, desktop and printable formats.

Bespoke assessments

Relevant for hiring to higher volume roles or graduates programmes. The questions are built bespoke or selected from existing item banks to measure the precise behaviours, motivations, abilities and situational judgment components required for your specific requirements.

Built around your competencies and fully tailored to your brand, bespoke assessments offer a premium candidate and hiring manager experience.

Typically solutions can include situational judgment content, alongside personality and ability content to give a full blended solution.

Like an assessment centre measuring competencies from different perspectives, a blended psychometric assessment triangulates measurement of your framework with different question types. Maximising precision, candidate experience and time efficiency.

Sova Partners

Proudly partnered with

We are proud to announce our strategic partnership with Alexander Mann Solutions, the leading global Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) provider operating across the globe.