Pre-employment testing helps you see beyond the limited information on a candidate’s resume to understand their personality, skills, and job-specific abilities.Â
This approach removes bias from the recruitment process and streamlines your hiring process. There’s no need to thumb through countless, unreliable resumes to try to find the top candidate – pre-employment testing does it all for you!
What’s more, by helping you find the right candidate for every role, skills-based testing reduces the likelihood of a mis-hire and ultimately reduces your employee turnover.
This article compares two of the most popular pre-employment testing tools – TestGorilla and CallidusCloud – to help you choose the right one for your business.
TestGorilla is an award-winning pre-employment testing platform offering over 300 scientifically validated pre-employment tests in a user-friendly platform.Â
You can combine up to five of these tests to create your own perfect pre-employment assessment for any role you’re hiring for. You can even create custom test questions or edit tests already available in the library.Â
Candidates receive a link via email to their assessment, which they can complete from any location on their mobile devices – ideal for on-the-go applicants.Â
TestGorilla incorporates stringent anti-cheating measures during assessments to protect the accuracy and authenticity of the results.
What’s more, you can customize the assessments with your company logo, colors, and intro and outro videos. This creates a cohesive experience for applicants and strengthens your brand identity.Â
TestGorilla generates easy-to-read reports that offer an overview of the applicant pool, including top performers, plus detailed insights into each candidate’s results. This efficient approach eliminates the need to manually sift through piles of applications.
CallidusCloud is a sales performance management software that helps businesses automate their sales processes. Its platform includes HR software solutions such as human capital management and pre-employment testing tools.
CallidusCloud’s pre-employment testing tools help you assess a candidate’s skills, personality, and capabilities.Â
CallidusCloud was acquired by SAP (SuccessFactors) in 2018, so now its tools are available through the SalesSelector area of SAP’s software.
Users can create customized assessments to ensure that tests measure relevant skills for each specific role, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and customer service skills.
Candidates receive an email link to their assessment, which they can complete from their mobile devices via the SAP app.Â
During assessments, CallidusCloud’s anti-cheating measures ensure accurate, fair, and valid results.
And once assessments are complete, CallidusCloud generates reports to give insight into candidates’ strengths and weaknesses.Â
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Having a large pool of pre-employment tests means you can evaluate a range of qualities and capabilities. This ensures you’ll pick the right candidate for your role and reduce employee turnover.
Look out for a platform that offers the ability to customize tests and combine them into custom assessments.Â
TestGorilla develops its library of pre-employment tests with subject-matter experts and psychometricians. This scientific basis helps you make reliable, data-driven hiring decisions.
With TestGorilla, you can assess a wide range of candidates’ competencies, including their:
Cognitive abilityÂ
Situational judgment
Programming languages
Personality
Motivation
Culture-add
In addition, you can customize test questions and combine up to five tests to create your own custom assessment.Â
Choose the answer format from many options, including multiple choice, short-text, audio, video, or file upload formats.Â
In addition, TestGorilla supports global recruitment campaigns with localized websites in 11 different languages, including English, French, Portuguese, and Japanese.Â
CallidusCloud offers tests for cognitive ability, situational judgment, job-specific skills, and personality type, to help you pick your ideal next hire.
In addition, CallidusCloud offers tools to customize test questions and create your own custom assessments.Â
However, there’s no information on CallidusCloud’s website to suggest the platform offers programming, software, language, or motivation tests.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
Cognitive ability tests | Yes | Yes |
Situational judgment tests | Yes | Yes |
Job-specific tests | Yes | Yes |
Software tests | Yes | N/A |
Programming tests (including coding challenges) | Yes | N/A |
Language tests | Yes | N/A |
Personality test | Yes | Yes |
Culture-add test | Yes | N/A |
Motivation test | Yes | N/A |
Your own custom tests | Yes | Yes |
Custom questions per assessment | Yes | Yes |
Test recommendations for each job role | Yes | N/A |
Multiple tests per assessment | Yes | N/A |
With so many different programming languages and frameworks, it’s important you assess a candidate’s competency in specific skills like coding languages or algorithmic thinking.Â
TestGorilla offers a range of tests for developers, including:
15 different coding languages
Custom coding challenges
Debugging challenges
Web- and mobile-development framework challenges
Algorithmic-thinking challenges
You can easily customize these tests to meet your specific requirements, ensuring that candidates have the necessary skills to keep up with your development team’s workload.
In addition, TestGorilla offers the ability to record candidates’ screens during coding tests so you can follow their process step-by-step later on.Â
TestGorilla also automatically scores candidates’ test results so you don’t have to, streamlining your hiring process.Â
You can also manage invitations, monitor each candidate’s applicant status, and receive notifications on completed tests and scores all in one convenient platform.
There is no information on CallidusCloud’s website to suggest the company offers tests to help companies hire developers.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
Coding languages | JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C, C#, C++, SQL, Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, R, Scala, and Swift | N/A |
Web-development frameworks | Yes | N/A |
Mobile-development frameworks | Yes | N/A |
Algorithmic-thinking challenges | Yes | N/A |
Debugging challenges | Yes | N/A |
Language-specific concept challenges | Yes | N/A |
Your own custom coding challenges | Yes | N/A |
Code-playback function | Yes | N/A |
Automated scoring | Yes | N/A |
Live peer coding | No | N/A |
One-way video interviews are a great way to get to know your candidate’s communication style, personality, and thought process prior to an in-person interview. They also make remote or international hiring campaigns much easier.Â
TestGorilla offers user-friendly one-way video interviews that enable you to efficiently assess candidates’ skills, personalities, and presentation style.
Candidates can easily record video responses to questions within a specified time limit of 30-120 seconds, perfect for large-scale hiring campaigns. You can also cap the number of attempts a candidate can make to ensure you’re getting an authentic response.
TestGorilla enables the playback of video interviews on any device. Additionally, you can leave ratings and comments on video responses to share with your hiring team.
It’s unclear from CallidusCloud’s website whether the platform offers any form of video interviews.
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
One-way video interviews | Yes | N/A |
Custom video questions | Yes | N/A |
Recording of candidates’ attempts | Yes | N/A |
Restrict maximum answer length | Yes | N/A |
Recording and playback on any device | Yes | N/A |
Rate and comment on video answers | Yes | N/A |
A positive hiring experience is crucial to keep top talent engaged throughout your recruitment process.Â
Your pre-employment screening software should minimize any barriers for applicants by making tests short and easily accessible from any device or location.
In addition, look out for software that offers branding tools, including the option to add company logos and colors.Â
TestGorilla enables you to incorporate company branding seamlessly into your tests, including your logo, color scheme, and customized intro and outro videos. This strengthens your brand identity and introduces candidates to your company culture.
In addition, TestGorilla enables you to personalize your invitation and rejection emails to demonstrate that you value candidates’ time and energy.Â
You can also ask qualifying questions before inviting candidates to interview to ensure you only take forward those that meet your criteria.
All our pre-employment tests are quick to load and easy to navigate. In the event of any issues, our support team is available to assist, and we have a detailed FAQ section and online help center for troubleshooting.Â
All tests are mobile-friendly, although we recommend that candidates use a desktop or laptop for coding exercises.
There’s no information to suggest whether CallidusCloud is a mobile-friendly platform. However, the parent company, SAP, can be accessed via a mobile app.
CallidusCloud also doesn’t state whether candidates must log in to the platform to take a test or whether users can add their company colors and logo. Users can’t add custom intro or outro videos.
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
Your company’s intro and/or outro video | Yes | N/A |
Assessments branded with your company logo and colors | Yes | N/A |
Customizable invitation and rejection emails | Yes | N/A |
No login required for candidates | Yes | N/A |
Mobile friendly | Yes | Yes, via SAP |
Help and support for your candidates | Yes | N/A |
Typical assessment length | 10-50 minutes | N/A |
Qualifying questions prior to assessment | Yes | N/A |
Redirect candidates to a URL of your choice after finishing an assessment | Yes | N/A |
A reliable pre-employment testing platform is crucial for businesses of any size.Â
Look out for software that integrates seamlessly with your ATS, provides API access, and complies with GDPR.
TestGorilla has plans to suit businesses of all sizes and is fully scalable.Â
Our Free plan is perfect for small companies that only need to hire a few new employees each year, while the Scale and Business plans can handle high-volume hiring needs at an affordable price.Â
In addition, TestGorilla offers ATS integrations, GDPR compliance, API access, and candidate tracking from application to hire. These features are perfect for both enterprises and startups to keep their hiring process organized.Â
Check out how we supported TreviPay in scaling its hiring process!
What’s more, TestGorilla offers localized websites in 11 languages so you can screen and hire candidates globally.Â
As CallidusCloud was acquired by SAP, it offers many of SAP’s enterprise and startup friendliness tools. These include:
ATS integrations
Role-based management rights
GDPR compliance,
Bulk actions for candidate management
API access
GDPR compliance
However, CallidusCloud’s website doesn’t include information on whether it offers bulk candidate invitation options.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
ATS integrations | Yes | Yes |
Multiple users and role-based rights management | Yes | Yes |
GDPR compliant | Yes | Yes |
Multiple candidate invitation options | Yes | Yes |
Public link to invite candidates | Yes | Yes |
Public links for each candidate source | Yes | N/A |
Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload) | Yes | N/A |
Track candidate stages from invited to hired | Yes | Yes |
API access | Yes | Yes |
Bulk actions to manage candidates | Yes | Yes |
A high standard of quality control is crucial to ensure accurate results and a positive outcome. Â
Your pre-employment platform should employ robust quality checks, regularly update test questions, and consider feedback from employers and test-takers.
TestGorilla puts all its tests through a comprehensive 28-step quality assurance process prior to launch, which includes:
Collaborating with psychometricians and copywriters
Developing questions with subject-matter experts
Peer reviews
Replacing overused questions
Leveraging feedback from both customers and test-takers to continually improve tests
It’s unclear what steps CallidusCloud takes to ensure and enhance the quality of its test questions.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test | Yes | N/A |
Extensive quality checks before tests go live | Yes | N/A |
Questions replaced after reaching an exposure limit | Yes | N/A |
Customer feedback used to improve tests | Yes | N/A |
Test-taker feedback used to improve tests | Yes | N/A |
Your pre-employment testing software should ensure your results accurately reflect a candidate’s skills, knowledge, and character.
Look out for a tool that offers robust anti-cheating measures, such as setting time limits, randomizing questions, and tracking candidates’ IP addresses.Â
TestGorilla offers a wide range of effective anti-cheating measures. This includes disabling copy-paste functionality, monitoring a candidate’s IP address and location, randomizing questions, and imposing time constraints on tests.
TestGorilla also removes test questions from the pool after 10,000 uses to decrease the likelihood of candidates accessing them beforehand.
In addition, TestGorilla employs full-screen mode detection and regular webcam snapshots (with consent) to prevent candidates from clicking away from the test page or exiting the testing environment to search for information.
CallidusCloud offers IP-address tracking and candidate location tracking to ensure candidates don’t share answers or collaborate on test questions.Â
However, CallidusCloud doesn’t state what other anti-cheating measures it offers.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
IP-address tracking (to prevent multiple attempts by the same candidate) | Yes | Yes |
Tracking candidate location | Yes | Yes |
Webcam snapshots (with the option to turn on/off) | Yes | N/A |
Full-screen mode detection (to prevent research during the test) | Yes | N/A |
Randomized questions | Yes | N/A |
Large question pool for each test | Yes (100+) | N/A |
Questions and answers not visible to employers to protect test integrity | Yes | N/A |
Time limit on tests | Yes (typically 10 minutes) | N/A |
Copy-paste disabled | Yes | N/A |
Reporting and analytics tools will help you digest and quantify your candidates’ pre-employment testing data.Â
Look out for software that automatically ranks candidates’ performances, compares and benchmarks them, and enables you to download test data for easy sharing with hiring managers.Â
You can even identify any potential future skills gaps by analyzing your data and forecasting future hiring needs.
TestGorilla creates detailed performance reports for every candidate. This includes their overall ranking, individual test scores, and responses to each question.
You can compare candidates side-by-side and monitor their real-time status in the recruitment process. Plus, our scoring benchmark system enables you to compare candidates to established parameters.
TestGorilla also enables you to add notes to reports for enhanced collaboration with your hiring team. Additionally, you can export reports in PDF, XLSX, or CSV format or share them with your ATS for further analysis.
You can also pan out and view a comprehensive overview of all current and previous candidates, seeing how many are involved in the hiring process for a specific role and any common or missing skills.
CallidusCloud doesn’t specify whether it offers any reporting or analytics tools.
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
PDF reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | N/A |
Excel and CSV reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | N/A |
Comprehensive overview of all current and past candidates | Yes | N/A |
Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring) | Yes | N/A |
The option to add your ratings and personal notes to reports | Yes | N/A |
Good customer support is key to a streamlined testing process. Look out for software that offers multiple support options, including live chat, email, and an FAQ center.Â
Effective customer support enables you to better understand your platform’s functionalities and gain support as required.
TestGorilla goes above and beyond with its customer support tools. When you first sign up, we offer a 30-minute onboarding tour with a member of our friendly team to help you get up to speed.
In addition, TestGorilla offers a handy FAQ center, live chat, and email support to both customers and test takers.Â
CallidusCloud offers users a dedicated support line through the SAP portal. In addition, all clients get live chat and email support, and a help center.
Unfortunately, CallidusCloud doesn’t offer a training and onboarding tour to help new users get to grips with its complex software.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | |
Live chat | Yes | Yes |
Help center | Yes | Yes |
Email support | Yes | Yes |
Training and onboarding tour | Yes | No |
Phone assistance | No | Yes |
Most pre-employment screening platforms bill annually. However, some offer a monthly payment model, free trials, or completely free plans.Â
TestGorilla offers three plans to suit all business needs.
Free forever at $0: Full access to 10 free tests, including all personality tests.
Depending on the size of your company, paid plans begin with:
Starter from $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront) - start with skills-based hiring for all roles. There is also the option to pay monthly, starting from $85 USD per month.
Pro from $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront) - maximize your hiring with advanced features. There is also the option to pay monthly, starting from $130 USD per month.
CallidusCloud offers a custom pricing structure based on number of employees and employee turnover. Users will need to reach out to CallidusCloud directly to receive a quote.Â
CallidusCloud doesn’t offer a free tool, and doesn’t appear to offer a free trial.Â
TestGorilla | CallidusCloud | ||
Plan | Price (billed annually) | Plan | Price |
Free | $0 | No free plan | |
Starter | From $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront)Â The monthly plan starts from $85 USD per month | Custom pricing | Pricing available by request only |
Pro | From $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront)Â The monthly plan starts from $130 USD per month |
A pre-employment testing platform should be easy and intuitive to use for both hiring managers and applicants.
Look out for software that offers a clean UX design, a mobile-friendly platform, and dependable customer support.Â
TestGorilla offers a user-friendly interface that’s intuitive, easy to navigate, and mobile-friendly. Whether you’re an experienced user or just starting out, our platform will seamlessly integrate into your workflow.
Our software is supported by a dedicated customer support team and extensive help center to ensure you get the right support at every step. We also offer accurate data analysis to help you make informed hiring decisions.
In addition, TestGorilla offers a range of features to help keep candidates informed and engaged throughout the hiring process. You can send emails, assessment invitations, and even personalized rejections from one convenient location.
CallidusCloud offers a central dashboard for all your sales and human capital management needs. In addition, the platform is available on mobile devices via the SAP app for ease of use.
The platform also has a simple user interface that’s easy to navigate.Â
Although TestGorilla and CallidusCloud are both popular pre-employment testing tools, TestGorilla’s range of features gives it a clear advantage.
While TestGorilla is a dedicated pre-employment testing software, CallidusCloud is an entire sales management platform. This lack of specificity means you may be paying for a number of tools you don’t use.
In addition, TestGorilla offers a range of quality control and customization features not currently available with CallidusCloud, which will result in a better user experience and more accurate results.
What’s more, TestGorilla’s free plan helps businesses of all sizes get started with pre-employment testing. CallidusCloud doesn’t offer a free-to-use tool and although it’s an extensive software, its high costs may be off-putting to some.Â
Overall, TestGorilla is the clear front-runner when it comes to pre-employment testing software.Â
Pre-employment testing tools are an effective way to streamline your hiring process. They can help eliminate potential biases, accurately predict candidate success, and give valuable insights into your new employee’s personality.
Curious to see what TestGorilla can do for your hiring process? Contact our friendly sales team today for a free 30-minute live demo of our software.
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