Release notes, June 2025

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1. TestGorilla Sourcing 🌍

Launching the new way to source skills-verified talent, ensuring you find the most qualified candidates for your assessments. 

What’s new?

  • Sourcing is now available to all paid customers at no additional cost, with 30 complimentary credits included.
  • Free users get limited search access to explore the platform’s value.

Why it matters:

  • Faster access to skills-tested talent. Search, assess, and connect on one platform.
  • Greater confidence in every hire. Source candidates who’ve proven their skills before you even speak.
  • Smarter hiring workflows. Combine sourcing + assessments to build stronger, fairer shortlists.
  • This phase helps us gather feedback to shape sourcing for the future — your input guides what comes next.

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2. AI-scoring of essay custom questions 🤖

Shift from hours of manual review to fast, fair, and consistent scoring.

What’s new?

  • Our skills-trained AI now auto-scores custom essay questions at scale.
  • You can preview how we will score the question as you build it.
  • Human reviewers can override AI scores at any time.

Why it matters:

  • Removes inconsistency and bias in how open-ended answers are scored.
  • Speeds up quality decisions: no more bottlenecks on essay review.
  • Trusted transparency: Each answer is scored using a visible rubric, with audit trails for every override.
  • Lays the groundwork for AI-based scoring of video and interview-style answers in the future.

🔦 Customer feedback spotlight:

“We’d like the ability to automatically grade written and verbal questions using AI. It’s key for high-volume screening, especially in our BPO use case.”
BPO customer

“Our biggest consideration is saving time. The custom questions we need take too long to score manually.”
Former customer in the Insurance tech space

This landmark launch will help nearly every customer save a significant amount of time while ensuring their scoring is more consistent and fair.

3. Candidate behavior log 👀

A more transparent window into how candidates interact with your assessment so that you can make smarter, fairer hiring decisions.

What’s new?

  • A detailed, timestamped behavior log showing what the candidate did, when, and in which test/skill area.
  • The new monitor on the results page displays an aggregate count of actions for quick scanning.

Why it matters:

  • Spot red flags quickly with built-in alerts that highlight unusual patterns.
  • Understand candidate behavior at a glance to guide your follow-up and evaluation.
  • Consistent monitoring across devices for a level playing field.
  • Provides essential context to help you identify top performers, flag potential concerns, and engage in productive, evidence-based hiring discussions.

🔦 Customer feedback spotlight:

“In this AI age, we absolutely need to know how often and how long candidates move their mouse outside the test window. It helps us detect cheating or unusual behavior.”
Enterprise customer request

“Would it be possible to note where exactly a candidate triggered the anti-cheating monitor — like which test or skill area it happened in?”
Customer request during support interaction

With these new tools, you can be confident that every candidate on your shortlist truly deserves their spot.

What’s coming up? 🔮

We’re building toward TestGorilla 2.0: an unified platform for sourcing and evaluating candidates.

Imagine the ease of finding skill-verified candidates and evaluating them thoroughly in one platform:

  • Instantly generate a tailored assessment based on your unique job description
  • Invite pre-verified skills-tested candidates directly within TestGorilla.
  • Auto-scoring each candidate on skills tests, AI interviews, and work experience evaluations, creating a skills-data-backed candidate profile.

TestGorilla 2.0 isn’t just adding features; it’s giving you an enormous amount of hire power! 

Learn more about what's ahead!

 

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