Success Elements
- The assessment identifies candidates who learn quickly, problem-solve using newly-acquired knowledge, are attentive to detail, persevere, and reason logically—the traits of major contributors.
- The assessment avoids wasted time and money recruiting, onboarding, and training individuals who will never meet your expectations.
- The assessment has been identifying top performers and underperformers for over a decade.
Our Assessment Measures Future Performance.
As the pace of change accelerates across industries, cognitive agility has grown correspondingly in importance. Unfortunately, conventional evaluation techniques including résumés, credentials, and interviews have difficulty measuring it.
The Employment Readiness Assessment (ERA) is a 1–2 hour hands-on “learn-and-apply” assessment that measures candidates’ cognitive agility before you hire—so as to avoid costly recruiting, onboarding, and training of individuals who will be underperformers.
The ERA complements existing assessments to objectively measure the capabilities that drive real-world performance. These include:
- Learning quickly
- Solving problems using newly acquired knowledge
- Paying close attention to detail
- Reasoning logically
- Persevering through challenges
These are not subjective impressions. They are measurable cognitive strengths that strongly predict an individual’s capacity to contribute meaningfully to your organization.
A New Type of Assessment
Traditional assessments focus on what candidates already know. The ERA reveals how candidates think, learn, and perform when faced with new challenges.
Because candidates must actively learn and apply new concepts during the assessment, the ERA cannot be solved by AI or external tools. Success depends entirely on the individual’s own effort, reasoning, and persistence.
The only prerequisites are basic reading comprehension in English or Spanish and basic keyboarding skills, making the assessment accessible for a wide range of job openings.
To help your hiring managers avoid costly hiring mistakes while equipping your HR teams with objective, data-driven insights, click here to use the assessment at no cost to screen your current job applicants.
About NCLab
NCLab is a technology company focused on identifying and developing the capabilities that drive success in modern workplaces. For more than fifteen years, we have worked at the intersection of education, cognitive science, and workforce development.
Our work is grounded in a simple belief: true potential is revealed through performance, not presentation. Résumés, credentials, and interviews provide useful signals, but they rarely capture the cognitive strengths that determine whether an individual will thrive in complex, rapidly evolving environments.
Through our proprietary assessments, NCLab evaluates the core capabilities that consistently distinguish high performers—learning agility, logical reasoning, attention to detail, problem solving, and perseverance.
Organizations that use NCLab tools gain a clearer understanding of candidate potential before investing in hiring and training. As a result, they experience shorter hiring cycles, improved retention, and faster time-to-productivity, enabling them to build stronger and more resilient teams.
MORE INFORMATION
Click here to start a FREE TRIAL to confirm to yourself the value of the ERA in your organization.
Click here to learn more about this new type of skills assessment.
Click here to learn about the different ways that organizations are using the ERA.
Click here to look at a sample Assessment Completion report.
Click here to look at a sample realtime Candidate Comparison report that is available throughout the hiring process.
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