Send the Cognitive Ability (IQ) from SmartRecruiters in 5 minutes
Inside SmartRecruiters' Hiring Success platform, IQ testing integrates as a primary screen for engineering and product roles. SmartRecruiters customers use the 20-item IQ assessment to feed programmatic-hiring rules that auto-advance high-IQ candidates (90th+ percentile) to technical-interview stages, reducing interview load on engineering teams. The three-subtest breakdown (pattern recognition, numerical reasoning, verbal reasoning) maps cleanly to SmartRecruiters' scorecard rubric logic. The 5-minute completion is acceptable for technical hiring where the predictive lift (ρ .51) justifies the candidate friction. EEOC defensibility requires documented job analysis; SmartRecruiters' structured job-template system supports this workflow.
Validity
Cognitive ability (g) predicts job performance at ρ ≈ .51 (Schmidt & Hunter 1998). Validity scales with role complexity.
Send the Cognitive Ability (IQ) from SmartRecruiters
From SmartRecruiters admin to first scored candidate.
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Add the JobCannon SmartRecruiters integration
From SmartRecruiters admin settings, add JobCannon as an Assessment Partner. Paste your Basic Auth credentials (sandbox first, production after the first test cycle). One-time setup, takes 3 minutes.
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Create a SmartRecruiters scorecard mapped to Cognitive Ability (IQ) dimensions
In your job template, create a scorecard section per Cognitive Ability (IQ) dimension. Each dimension maps 1:1 to a numeric attribute on the SmartRecruiters scorecard — no provider-specific glue needed.
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Trigger the Cognitive Ability (IQ) on the candidate's stage transition
Add "Send Cognitive Ability (IQ)" as an automatic action when candidates enter the assessment stage. The candidate receives a co-branded SmartRecruiters email and completes the 5-minute form on mobile or desktop.
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View the score envelope in the candidate profile
The full Cognitive Ability (IQ) score envelope (dimensions, bands, narrative summary) lands in the SmartRecruiters candidate profile within 30 seconds of submission. Recruiters review without leaving SmartRecruiters.
Sample score envelope
Generated by the same normalizer that serves your SmartRecruiters webhook, so the field names and types below are the ones you will parse. The candidate and the answers are a worked example; the numbers are illustrative, not a benchmark.
dimensions[].score is 0–100 within this test’s own scale. It is safe to rank candidates on one dimension of one test, and it is not a percentile unless metadata.score_metric says so — today only Big Five publishes percentiles, against norms whose sample size and pull date travel in the same envelope. Scores from two different tests are not comparable to each other.
{
"test_type": "iq-test",
"test_name": "IQ Test",
"completed_at": "2026-05-16T10:34:21.000Z",
"candidate": {
"email": "candidate@example.com",
"name": "Alex Morgan"
},
"primary_outcome": {
"code": "above_average",
"label": "Above Average",
"summary": ""
},
"dimensions": [
{
"code": "overall",
"label": "IQ Test",
"score": 68,
"interpretation": "moderate"
}
],
"metadata": {
"percentage": 68,
"tier_key": "above_average",
"tier_icon": "⚡"
}
}Other assessments for SmartRecruiters hiring
Run a different cut on the same candidate by sending one of these from the same SmartRecruiters pipeline.
Big Five (OCEAN)
personality test
Big Five conscientiousness predicts job performance at ρ ≈ .31 across 117 studies (Barrick & Mount 1991).
Send from SmartRecruiters →
DISC
behavioural style assessment
DISC maps four observable behaviour styles. Meta-analytic correlation with job performance is modest (~.10-.15).
Send from SmartRecruiters →
EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
emotional intelligence assessment
EQ adds incremental predictive validity for emotional-labour roles — ρ ≈ .24 (Joseph & Newman 2010).
Send from SmartRecruiters →
Frequently asked
When does SmartRecruiters integration ship?+
Phase 1 roadmap target H2 2026.
Is IQ EEOC-defensible?+
Yes with caveats. Highest predictive validity (ρ .51) but highest adverse-impact risk. Defensibility requires job analysis, pass-bands, structured interview, adverse-impact monitoring.
Which roles should use IQ?+
Engineering, data science, research, product strategy, finance analyst — roles with high task complexity.
How does IQ integrate with Hiring Success?+
IQ percentile scores feed SmartRecruiters programmatic rules. Customers map high-IQ thresholds to auto-advance to technical-interview stages.
How long does IQ take?+
Median 5 minutes on JobCannon's 20-item form.
Pricing?+
Free sandbox + 5 invitations/mo; Scale tier $199/mo flat.
Be first on the SmartRecruiters integration with the Cognitive Ability (IQ)
Email partners@jobcannon.io with your SmartRecruiters tenant ID. We'll notify you when the SmartRecruiters adapter ships and beta credentials are available.
Prefer to try the Cognitive Ability (IQ) first? Take it on JobCannon to see exactly what your candidates will see — or read the assessment API docs for the full envelope spec (Iq Test).