Pre-employment & talent assessment tools
Send pre-employment, personality, and cognitive-adjacent assessments with every candidate screen. 88 validated tests, plain-English results, candidate-friendly in 5-15 minutes. Free to start, $79/mo for volume.
JobCannon is a pre-employment and talent-assessment platform for hiring teams: 88 validated assessments for candidate screening, structured interviewing, and hiring-decision support, from $0/mo. Core hiring screeners are DISC (5 min, communication and behavior style), Big Five / OCEAN (15 min, the most research-validated trait model), EQ (emotional intelligence and people-leadership potential), RIASEC / Holland Codes (career-fit and internal mobility), Conflict Styles (team compatibility), and Values (culture fit). Assessments are self-report, research-validated, and run 5-15 minutes for high candidate completion. Pricing is flat: $0 (5 evaluations), $79/mo (Team, 100 evaluations), $199/mo (Scale, 500 evaluations + white-label + API), Enterprise from $5k/year. Competing categories: pre-employment testing suites (Criteria Corp $400+/mo), skills-test libraries (TestGorilla $83-650/mo), per-candidate psychometrics (SHL, Korn Ferry $15-40/candidate), and personality-profiling platforms (Predictive Index $5-15k/year). Legal posture: tests are a screening aid, never a sole-reject gate — EEOC and GDPR Article 22 require a human decision, and the same test must be applied to every candidate at a stage.
Four plays, each under 10 minutes of recruiter time per candidate.
Send one per stage — never all at once.
Per-month cost for a team screening 50-100 candidates
Picking a vendor? Start with the top 5 hiring assessment platforms compared — the side-by-side of JobCannon against Criteria, TestGorilla, SHL, and the rest of the pre-employment field.
For a specific seat in the hiring org, the lane pages go deeper: recruiters & talent teams, HR & people ops, and hiring managers. To wire results into your stack, see the ATS integrations hub, and for the full picture, the JobCannon for Business platform.
Team ($79/mo, 100 evaluations) fits most in-house hiring teams. Scale ($199/mo, 500 evaluations + API + white-label) fits agencies and RPO. Enterprise for 500+ hires/year.
Always free for micro-teams
For solo coaches and small HR
For startups, teams and HR
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
For 200+ person companies
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What you get at each price point. Tap or hover any feature for a plain-English definition.
| Feature | Free $0 | Starter $29/mo | Team $79/mo Most popular | Scale $199/mo | Enterprise From $5k/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Volume & access | |||||
| Tests | 5 one-time | 30/mo | 100/mo | 500/mo | Unlimited |
| Assessment library | All 88+ | All 88+ | All 88+ | 88+ & custom | 88+ & custom |
| Admin seats | 1 | 1 | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Reports & insights | |||||
| Premium report format | |||||
| PDF export (client-ready) | |||||
| White-label PDFs | |||||
| Coach notes per client | |||||
| Team DNA dashboard | |||||
Hiring integrity Catch coached, careless, or "fake-good" candidates before they reach the interview. | |||||
| Integrity scale | |||||
| Social-desirability scale | |||||
| Behavioural telemetry | |||||
Integration & automation | |||||
| API access (read-only) | |||||
| Bulk CSV import / export | |||||
| Custom assessment builder | |||||
Enterprise & support | |||||
| Priority email support | |||||
| SSO (SAML, Google Workspace) | |||||
| 99.9% SLA | |||||
| Data residency (EU / US) | |||||
| Dedicated Customer Success | |||||
| Custom integrations | |||||
| Start free | Get Starter access | Get Team access | Get Scale access | Talk to us | |
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Tell us how many candidates you screen per month, which ATS you use, and the roles you hire for. We'll come back with a concrete plan within 24 hours.
A pre-employment assessment is a standardized test given to candidates before a hire decision to add objective signal alongside the resume and interview. The best placement is after the first recruiter screen and before the panel interview: candidates who are engaged enough to finish are pre-qualified, and the hiring manager walks into the panel with trait data instead of vibes. Sending tests before any human contact tanks completion; sending them after the offer wastes the signal. JobCannon assessments take 5-15 minutes each — DISC (communication style), Big Five (OCEAN trait profile), EQ (people-leadership potential), and cognitive-adjacent screeners.
Use the lightest test that answers your actual question. For culture and team fit: DISC (5 min) or Values. For a research-validated trait baseline on senior hires: Big Five. For people-leadership and management roles: EQ. For career-fit and internal mobility: RIASEC. JobCannon focuses on personality, emotional-intelligence, and career-interest assessments — all self-report and validated. We do not do hard-skills testing (coding, typing, language proficiency); for that, pair us with a skills tool like TestGorilla. Cognitive-ability testing has the highest legal scrutiny, so treat any cognitive screener as a single input among several, never the gate.
Yes, with two non-negotiable rules. (1) Never reject solely on a test score. In the US, EEOC guidance, and in the EU, GDPR Article 22, both restrict automated hiring decisions — a personality or aptitude test is legally a "screening aid", and the decision must be made by a human. (2) Apply the same test to every candidate at the same stage; selective testing creates disparate-impact risk. JobCannon assessments are self-report (not clinical), research-validated (Big Five, DISC, Holland Codes), and meet the typical standard for non-selection pre-employment use alongside structured interviews. We are not a substitute for legal review of your specific hiring process.
JobCannon bundles all 88 assessments for $0-199/mo flat. Criteria Corp starts around $400/mo and targets mid-market. TestGorilla starts at $83/mo and charges per test library (its strength is hard-skills testing, which we do not do). SHL and Korn Ferry charge $15-40 per candidate per assessment. Predictive Index runs $5,000-15,000/year. If you need deep cognitive or skills batteries, those incumbents are stronger; if you need fast, validated personality and career-fit signal at a flat low price, that is exactly what we are built for. Many teams run JobCannon for personality and a skills tool for skills.
Short, well-designed ones, no; long surveilled batteries, yes. The 5-minute DISC test sees >80% completion among the teams we work with; the 15-minute Big Five sits at 65-75%. To maximize completion: send after a first human call, state the time cost upfront, and promise candidates they will see their own results — they care about this more than employers expect. The kill-shot for candidate experience is sending four tests at once before anyone has spoken to the candidate.
Two ways. (1) Manual, works at any tier: paste the assessment link into your ATS email template; the candidate takes it and the result PDF attaches to their record. Fine under ~50 hires/month. (2) API + native integrations on Scale tier ($199/mo) — pull results into Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable and more. See the integrations hub for the current connector list; if yours is not there we build it for Enterprise on request.