This guide illustrates the general steps of analyzing the results of your candidates.
Once your candidates complete their assessments, it's time to review and analyze the results. You can view who your top candidates are based on the averages shown on the main candidate page of the assessment, but TestGorilla's analysis tools go much deeper than that. This article is relevant to all users on all plans.
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Using the Job Overview panel to compare overall results
From the Jobs tab, click on the assessment you want to analyze. Here, you'll be able to see a clear overview of the results for every candidate.
Reviewing, Filtering & Searching the Job Overview panel
- Search for specific candidates by entering a full or partial name or email address.
- Set a minimum and maximum score to filter only the candidates within that range.
- Choose a stage — or multiple stages — to view only the relevant candidates. Setting a stage can help keep your candidates organized. See this guide for more information on stages.
- Filter by assessment status, such as started, completed, or disqualified. Only candidates of your chosen status will show. This guide has more information about statuses.
- Apply more advanced filters such as completion date and score ranges for specific tests.
- Toggle between percentile scoring and raw scores. Read more about the advantages of percentiles in this guide.
- Choose which fields to include in the job overview panel by clicking the gear icon. This allows you to have quick access to the information that matters most to you.
- Use the column headers to sort by field. By default, the table is sorted highest to lowest by score. Click a column header to sort the table by that field, and click again to alternate between ascending and descending order.
- Select multiple candidates by checking the box next to their name. Bulk actions — like changing the hiring stage — can be completed for selected candidates.
- Click a candidate’s name to view their individual results.
Analyze individual results
The individual candidate results page gives you a clear overview of the assessment results for a candidate. The results for each assessment are grouped in six key ways.
Click below to learn more about each:
The behavior monitor flags an event in two ways:
- A green Yes or a red No to indicate its status. A red flag indicates something you may want to ask your candidate about.
- The number of flagged instances. For more information on each instance, view the behavior log.
You can cycle through snapshots using the slider bar below the images. Snapshots are taken every 30 seconds.
Our article Understanding anti-cheating measures contains full information about the measures we implement to reduce the risk of cheating.
There are two scoring methods you can view, depending on which is selected to display in the Job overview:
Percentile
Percentile scoring allows you to easily compare a candidate's performance relative to other candidates in a comparison group. You can learn more about percentile scoring in our article Introcution to Percentile Scoring.
Example :
If a candidate's score is in the 94th percentile, this means that candidate scored higher than 94% of all candidates in the comparison group.
Raw score
The raw score allows for a straightforward evaluation of your candidate's performance by providing their score as a fraction of the total possible score.
Example :
If a candidate scores 79%, it means the candidate has answered correctly 79% of the 100% total possible points.
While this option is available, raw scores may provide less meaningful insights compared to percentiles. For example, 79% on an easy test might not be impressive, while 79% on a difficult test would be. Raw scores do not allow for comparison of performance across a group, making it difficult to understand if a score is low, average, or high.
Comparison of scoring methods
Gladys Gorilla achieves a 79% raw score on their test. Good, but not great. Context matters!
When the same score is compared against results from a comparison group, we learn that Gladys scored in the 94th percentile. This means Gladys performed higher than 94% of the group that took this test, indicating a strong (above average) performance despite the initial raw score.
To make it easier to compare candidates, the candidate you’re currently viewing is marked with a small bubble on the score graph. The highest score achieved in your assessment is shown with a trophy icon, so you can quickly see how each candidate stacks up.
You can quickly see an overview of how a candidate performed on each test, with information such as their percentile and raw score available at your fingertips.
If you want more in-depth information about a candidate's performance on a specific test, click on it to view more details.
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Multiple-choice tests are broken
down into various skill areas to display how a candidate
performed in certain sections of the test. You can
also see how long the candidate took to complete
the test.
- Coding tests display the overall score achieved on the test and the time taken to complete it. Click the (Report) link to view a detailed report of the test.
- Culture add survey is presented as a percentage. The higher the percentage, the closer a match they are to your company’s culture. The expanded view shows the score for each section of the survey. See this guide for further details on culture add results.
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Motivation test is also displayed as a percentage. The higher the percentage, the closer aligned your candidate’s motivations are to yours. The expanded view displays results for each section as color-coded circles. See this guide for further detail on Motivation test results.
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Personality tests will display the categorized personality as a result. Clicking on it will give you a more detailed report. See this guide for more details on personality tests.
- Typing tests display the speed (WPM/KPH) and accuracy as a percentage. Click the Report button to view a detailed report of the test.
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Individual answers to custom questions, conversational AI video interviews, and resume scoring You can view and rate the candidate’s answers to each of your included assessment tools. Click on the question to view the answer/scoring in a popup window.
In this window, you can rate the answer between 1 and 5 stars and leave notes for your colleagues.
The candidate results overview page includes a section for qualifying questions — if applicable — where you can view both the candidate’s answers and the correct answers to the questions. This allows you to see exactly which answers disqualified them from the assessment.
Our article about qualifying questions goes into further detail about how you can review these answers.
Give your personal overall rating of the candidate based on your impressions and interactions with them so far using the stars at the bottom of the page. This star rating shows up on the main candidate results page as well.
This is your opportunity to share your thoughts about the candidate with your colleagues, as well as remove any memory bias — you are relying on your recorded opinion of the candidate rather than what you remember about them!
Common questions
We keep the questions and their correct answers hidden to protect the integrity of our tests. This minimizes the risk of the test content being leaked online — testing is no use if the answers are easily accessible!
You can see the questions being asked by inviting yourself to take the assessment, but there is no way to see a candidate’s exact answers.
This is useful for both you and us. If you're hiring for a similar position in the future, it's helpful to be able to quickly check which candidates you hired in prior assessments. Humans tend to forget a lot, and having a quick way to reference your past hires can be handy.
For TestGorilla, it allows us to further improve the accuracy of our tests. We check in with you 3 months after the candidate is hired to see how they are working out. Matching their results with their actual job performance allows us to refine our tests further and provide better predictions for test recommendations. This leads to a better experience for everyone!
Marking candidates as hired also helps keeps your TestGorilla Analytics dashboard up to date.