Recruitment

Soft skills before the manager interview. Measured with behavioral evidence.

WiseWorld is a pre-interview behavioral assessment from your job description. Rank candidates on job-related scenarios and send managers a shortlist with evidence.

  • 3,400+ candidates assessed
  • 83% complete the assessment
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Your reference profile

All 44 soft skills, ranked for this role.

The missing data

Hiring has no data on how candidates behave

CVs show credentials. Interviews show impressions. Neither gives you comparable behavioral evidence before managers pick a shortlist.

  • ~0 hrs

    Per hire spent judging soft skills in interviews, with no shared definition of what “good” looks like

    Prepzo 2026

  • ~0 hrs

    Average interview hours per hire, where soft skills usually get decided

    Ashby 2026

  • ~0%

    Of soft skills evaluation spend is interview labor, not assessment tools

    SHRM 2025

From opinions to evidence

Find the right soft skills.
See how candidates use them in job-related scenarios.

A pre-interview behavioral assessment scores every qualified candidate on job-related scenarios, before the manager interview. One standard from your job description, ranked shortlist with evidence.

Without WiseWorld

Soft skills arrive at Interview

Late, subjective signal

42 days

€4,596

  1. 01
    Plan
    3 days
    • Requirements aligned manually
    • Criteria interpreted differently
  2. 02
    Source
    Unchanged12 days
  3. 03
    Assess
    9 days
    • Phone-screen every applicant
    • Generic tests give a weak signal
  4. 04
    Interview
    9 days
    • Managers interview without evidence
    • Notes vary by interviewer
  5. 05
    Onboard
    Starts empty9 days
    • Soft skills discovered after hiring
    • The manager starts from scratch

14 days faster · €1,197 lower cost

With WiseWorld

Soft skills shape decisions from Plan

Soft skills layer starts here

28 days

€3,399

  1. 01
    Plan
    <1 day
    • Assessment roleplay ready in 10 min from the job description
    • One shared soft skills standard
  2. 02
    Source
    Unchanged12 days
  3. 03
    Assess
    2 days
    • Candidates complete job scenarios
    • Everyone is scored on one rubric
  4. 04
    Interview
    5 days
    • List ranked candidates in ~1 min after they finish
    • Questions target strengths and gaps
  5. 05
    Onboard
    Evidence ready9 days
    • Strengths and gaps known on day one
    • Development starts with evidence

Your workflow

Paste the job description. 10 min to create the assessment roleplay.

Build your soft skills assessment from the job description: confirm the job scenario, send one link. 1 min to list candidates after they finish, with the same behavioral standard for everyone.

  1. Build the soft skill profile

    Paste the job description. See the soft skills this role needs in 10 min.

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  2. Confirm the job scenario

    Review what candidates will face. Edit if you want. Publish.

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  3. Send one link. Get the shortlist.

    Candidates finish on their time. List ranked candidates in ~1 min with scores, gaps, and questions to ask.

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Will candidates do it?

They do when it feels like real job scenarios.

Candidates finish when the exercise reflects real work, not a personality quiz, not a recorded AI interview, and not a form they can rehearse.

  • 010%

    Candidates complete the full assessment, start to finish

  • 02~0 minutes

    Average completion time, on their own schedule

  • 030+

    Candidates assessed on WiseWorld

What lands on your desk

Hire with behavioral evidence not interview impressions alone.

Every name on your shortlist comes with proof: a match score, a skill profile mapped to the role, and an interview brief for the hiring manager.

  • Who fits best

    A 0–100 score built from what candidates actually did in a real work scenario. Everyone faces the same situation, then ranks by who best matches the role's soft skills profile.

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  • Candidates' strengths and gaps

    See each candidate's results mapped onto the role's soft skills profile. Spot exactly which skills meet the role and which fall short, using the full 44-skill framework as a shared language for human skills.

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  • Your interview brief

    A short read on where they fit and what to ask about in the manager interview, plus interview questions tied to each candidate's real performance.

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Not a one-off test

Human capability data doesn't stop at hire.

The soft skills profile and scores from hiring stay with the person after day one. Onboarding starts with evidence: strengths to use, skills to develop, and context managers can act on immediately.

Onboarding profile ready

Selected candidate · soft skills context

  • Strengths to use

    The skills they already demonstrate and can put to work immediately.

  • Skills to develop

    The gaps against the role that should shape their growth plan.

  • How the team can help

    Clear context for managers and colleagues to coach and collaborate.

See it on your role

One role, free. See who ranks first.

Start with one urgent role. Get ranked scores against the job description profile, plus gaps and questions for managers.

  • Walk through your hiring workflow
  • Set up a pilot on your most urgent role
  • Answer questions from your TA team

Assess candidates after AI resumes

Measure how people behave.
Not what they claim on paper.

Candidates can polish a CV or rehearse interview answers. They cannot rehearse a live job scenario with no answer key. You rank on what they do in the moment, not what they claim on paper.

Read the post-GenAI hiring guide
  • Live, not a form

    Every scenario unfolds based on what the candidate says.

  • Your job, not a generic quiz

    The scenario comes from the job description.

  • Evidence before the interview

    You see how they communicate, decide, and react, as it happens.

Personality test alternative

Not a personality quiz.
A standard built to read real behavior.

All 44 soft skills come from peer-style research and 3,400+ real assessments. We also read 563 European software engineer job posts to see what employers actually write. It reads how someone communicates, decides, and reacts in a job scenario. Same standard for everyone.

  • Purpose-built for real behavior
  • 100+ validated methodologies

Read the European job-post study

Interview time you can reclaim

Compare soft skills against the job description.
Shortlist with evidence before managers interview.

Teams phone-screen everyone and run personality tests that still don't show job behavior. Here's what it costs to screen 20 applicants before interviews, both ways.

Example scenario: 1 open role, 20 qualified applicants

Without WiseWorld

~€860

€620 phone calls + €240 personality tests, for all 20 applicants

Time ~8 hours

phone screens with every applicant, plus test admin

  • You call everyone, worth it or not
  • Tests that label people, not predict them
  • Notes that change with every interviewer
  • Managers interview blind

With WiseWorld

€100

WiseWorld behavioural assessment, for all 20 applicants

Time 10 min

10 min to create the assessment roleplay from your job description. 1 min to list candidates after they finish.

  • Real job scenarios show how people work
  • Everyone scored on one rubric, ranked for you
  • List ranked candidates in ~1 min after they finish
  • Managers get strengths, gaps, and questions

Compliant by design

Stay compliant. Keep hiring simple.

Every candidate is scored on the same job description standard. GDPR-ready processing, a private applicant space per candidate, and human final decisions.

  • GDPR compliant

  • Same rubric for every candidate

  • AI assists, humans decide

  • Isolated Hiring Space for applicants

Compared to what you use now

CVs and interviews tell part of the story.
WiseWorld adds the behavioral data that is missing.

Screening tools show credentials and self-report. WiseWorld shows what candidates actually do in a job scenario, comparable evidence hiring managers can use before the panel.

Swipe to compare all four options →

Comparison of WiseWorld against phone screens, personality tests, and AI interviewers on six hiring criteria: job behavior, shared rubric, adaptive scenarios, role mapping, pre-call shortlist, and manager evidence brief.
Most completeWiseWorldPhone screenPersonality testAI video (HireVue)
Sees what candidates do, not what they wroteYesPartialNoPartial
Same skill rubric for every candidateYesNoYesYes
Changes with each answer. Can't guess the right answerYesPartialNoNo
Mapped to your role, not a generic testYesNoPartialPartial
Shortlist ready before manager callsYesNoYesYes
Evidence brief before the panel meetsYesPartialPartialPartial
  • Does it well
  • Partially
  • Not really

Phone screen vs self-paced screening

Fits your ATS

Your ATS. Plus behavioral evidence before interview.

Add behavioral assessment where you already run hiring. No new funnel to learn.

  • Greenhouse ATS integration
  • Ashby ATS integration
  • Lever ATS integration
  1. Recruiter qualifies in the ATS

    Who passed qualification

  2. Candidate completes WiseWorld

    ~30 minutes on their time

  3. Shortlist back to ATS

    List ranked candidates in ~1 min

Which recruiter are you?

Different hiring processes. The same need: clear soft skills before the interview.

Tap a situation to see how we solve it

You need to

People don't share the same definition of good communication or judgment. So each interviewer judges candidates differently.

How WiseWorld gets you there

  • Create the assessment roleplay from the job description in 10 min
  • Every candidate scored against the same standard
  • Debriefs from shared evidence, not different definitions

Recruitment research

Latest hiring research for TA teams

Original studies and guides on pre-interview behavioral assessment, hiring funnel gaps, and soft skills validity. Browse recruitment research.

Before you decide

The questions every talent acquisition team asks

Build a better shortlist

See soft skills before the interview.

One job description. One standard. Clear evidence.