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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