Send the Skills Audit (21st-century skills) from SmartRecruiters in 12 minutes
Inside SmartRecruiters' Hiring Success platform, Skills Audit integrates into engineering, product, operations hiring to screen for modern-skills readiness. SmartRecruiters customers use the 12-domain Skills Audit (analytical thinking, AI literacy, learning agility, etc.) to feed programmatic-hiring rules that auto-advance high-readiness candidates. AI literacy in particular is a rising differentiator in 2026 tech hiring; SmartRecruiters customers use the AI-literacy sub-score to identify candidates ready for modern-stack roles. The 12-minute completion is acceptable for mid-market technical hiring volume.
Validity
Skills self-assessments correlate with supervisor ratings at ρ ≈ .35. Signal rises to ρ .55 when paired with work-sample evidence.
Send the Skills Audit (21st-century skills) 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 Skills Audit (21st-century skills) dimensions
In your job template, create a scorecard section per Skills Audit (21st-century skills) 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 Skills Audit (21st-century skills) on the candidate's stage transition
Add "Send Skills Audit (21st-century skills)" as an automatic action when candidates enter the assessment stage. The candidate receives a co-branded SmartRecruiters email and completes the 12-minute form on mobile or desktop.
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View the score envelope in the candidate profile
The full Skills Audit (21st-century skills) 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": "skills-audit",
"test_name": "Skills Audit",
"completed_at": "2026-05-16T10:34:21.000Z",
"candidate": {
"email": "candidate@example.com",
"name": "Alex Morgan"
},
"primary_outcome": {
"code": "technical",
"label": "Technical Skills",
"summary": ""
},
"dimensions": [
{
"code": "technical",
"label": "Technical Skills",
"score": 78,
"interpretation": "high"
},
{
"code": "tools",
"label": "Tools & Platforms",
"score": 45,
"interpretation": "moderate"
},
{
"code": "soft",
"label": "Soft Skills",
"score": 64,
"interpretation": "moderate"
},
{
"code": "domain",
"label": "Domain Expertise",
"score": 33,
"interpretation": "low"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}Other assessments for SmartRecruiters hiring
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DISC
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EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
emotional intelligence assessment
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Frequently asked
When does SmartRecruiters integration ship?+
Phase 1 roadmap target H2 2026.
Is Skills Audit EEOC-defensible?+
Self-report alone (ρ .35) is too easy to game. Pair with work-sample task (ρ .55 combined). SmartRecruiters supports multi-assessment workflows.
Which roles should use Skills Audit?+
Engineering, data, product, design, operations — any role where tool-stack or skillset evolves rapidly.
How does Skills Audit feed Hiring Success?+
AI-literacy and composite-readiness scores feed SmartRecruiters programmatic rules for auto-advance or threshold-based screening.
How long does it take?+
Median 12 minutes on JobCannon's 55-item form.
Pricing?+
Free sandbox + 5 invitations/mo; Scale tier $199/mo flat.
Be first on the SmartRecruiters integration with the Skills Audit (21st-century skills)
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 Skills Audit (21st-century skills) first? Take it on JobCannon to see exactly what your candidates will see — or read the assessment API docs for the full envelope spec (Skills Audit).