Finding new talent for your business can be challenging and time-consuming, and the hiring process can sometimes lead to mistakes, biases, and missed opportunities.Â
However, a pre-employment screening platform can help you find the right person for any open position within your organization.
Pre-employment software offers tools for conducting in-depth analyses of each candidate’s skills and qualities, allowing you to quickly build a shortlist of applicants to interview.
To get the most benefit from pre-employment testing, you need a platform that supports your business’s specific hiring needs. Two popular options are TestGorilla and Talentoday. We compare them in-depth in this guide.
TestGorilla is a powerful talent assessment platform that enables you to screen candidates across a wide range of technical skills and soft qualities.
TestGorilla has 400+ tests covering everything from cognitive ability to programming skills and beyond. You can gain insights into a candidate’s personality, job-specific qualifications, and more.
TestGorilla is compatible with most major applicant tracking (ATS) tools, making it easy to track candidates from application to hire. It fits seamlessly into your organization’s existing hiring workflow and lets you compare candidates side-by-side.
TestGorilla offers a free plan with unlimited access to five tests. Businesses that want access to our full test library and candidate evaluation tools can choose from two affordable, scalable paid plans.
Talentoday is a pre-employment screening software that evaluates the personality traits of current employees and job applicants. It offers only a single assessment that generates insights into qualities like patience, critical thinking, and empathy.
Talentoday lets you co-analyze the personality traits of two individuals to see whether they intersect positively or negatively. This can help you determine whether a candidate is a good fit for an existing team or whether applicants for related roles might work well together.
Talentoday has an API but doesn’t offer premade integrations for popular ATS or HR software.
Its subscription plans are priced based on the number of personality profiles you want to create, so the software can be expensive for growing companies that hire frequently. Talentoday doesn’t offer a free plan.
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Your software’s test library determines what skills and qualities you can assess in a candidate. Businesses can benefit from having access to a larger test library with tests covering many different topics.
TestGorilla has an expansive library comprising 400+ tests across categories such as:
Personality and culture
Cognitive ability
Situational judgment
Software skills
Programming skills, like Kotlin Coding and Computer System Architecture
Language proficiency
Job-specific skills, such as those an AI Product Manager needs
You can combine up to five tests to build a custom candidate assessment. TestGorilla automatically recommends tests based on the title of your open role, but you can also enter a skill or role to find recommended tests
TestGorilla also enables you to add custom questions to any assessment. Question and answer formats include multiple-choice, text, audio, video, and file upload.
All our tests are available in 12 languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. This helps with international hiring campaigns and hiring for remote positions.
See how TestGorilla leads the way in skills assessments. Sign up for our free live demo and discover a better way to evaluate candidates.
Talentoday offers only one assessment with a fixed set of questions.Â
The assessment is designed to evaluate a candidate’s personality traits, cultural fit, and work motivation. You can’t add custom questions, and there are no technical or hard skills questions.
However, the test is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
Cognitive ability tests | Yes | Yes |
Situational judgment tests | Yes | Yes |
Job-specific tests | Yes | No |
Software tests | Yes | No |
Programming tests (including coding challenges) | Yes | No |
Language tests | Yes | No |
Personality tests | Yes | Yes |
Culture-add test | Yes | Yes |
Motivation test | Yes | Yes |
Your own custom tests | Yes | No |
Custom questions per assessment | Yes | No |
Test recommendations for each job role | Yes | No |
Multiple tests per assessment | Yes | No |
Developers play an integral role in maintaining your company’s internal systems and building software products.Â
If you need to hire developers, it’s important to choose pre-employment screening software that can evaluate candidates’ coding and software skills.
TestGorilla offers more than 85 programming skills tests. They cover languages such as C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, and more.
TestGorilla has multiple tests for popular languages such as Python. For example, you can evaluate applicants’ skills in specific Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-learn.
We also offer tests to help you evaluate developers’ fluency in building mobile apps, websites, and smart contracts. You can add custom coding or debugging challenges to any assessment.
In addition, TestGorilla has more than 50 software skills tests. These cover popular platforms, such as Excel, WooCommerce, Salesforce, Power BI, and more. We also have a language-agnostic coding test that supports 20+ languages and allows test-takers to write in their preferred one.
With the test-taker’s permission, you can view snapshots during programming and software skills tests to see how they approach problems.
Talentoday doesn’t offer programming or software skills tests.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
Coding languages | JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, C, C#, C++, SQL, Kotlin, Ruby, TypeScript, Go, R, Scala, React, and Swift | None |
Web-development frameworks | Yes | No |
Mobile-development frameworks | Yes | No |
Algorithmic-thinking challenges | Yes | No |
Integrated Development Environment (IDE), with features to boost efficiency and accuracy
| Yes | No |
Language-agnostic coding test | Yes | No |
Debugging challenges | Yes | No |
Language-specific concept challenges | Yes | No |
Your own custom coding challenges | Yes | No |
Code-playback function | Yes | No |
Automated scoring | Yes | No |
Live peer coding | No | No |
One-way video interviews require candidates to record their responses in the form of a video.Â
Asynchronous video features can provide much more information about a candidate’s personality or approach to problem-solving compared with traditional answer formats, such as multiple-choice selections.
You can add custom one-way video interview questions to any assessment in TestGorilla and pose interview questions through text, audio, or video prompts.
Candidates have three attempts to record their answers, and we enable you to limit the length of candidates’ video responses to 30, 60, or 120 seconds.Â
You can review video interviews on any device, from laptops to tablets to smartphones. Plus, it’s easy to leave notes or rate video responses so you can review candidates collaboratively with your whole hiring team.
Talentoday doesn’t offer any video interview features, and you can’t ask candidates to record video responses to any test questions.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
One-way video interviews | Yes | No |
Custom video questions | Yes | No |
Record the number of candidates’ attempts | Yes | N/A |
Restrict maximum answer length | Yes | N/A |
Record and playback on any device | Yes | N/A |
Rate and comment video answers | Yes | N/A |
Providing a good hiring experience for your candidates is crucial for your brand image among potential recruits. You want strong applicants to apply again in the future and to recommend your company to other job-seekers.
Your pre-employment testing process will be among the first interactions candidates have with your business. So, the software you choose needs to be user-friendly and reflect well on your organization.
TestGorilla offers a pre-employment screening experience that candidates and companies will love.
Hiring managers and recruiters can send personalized invitations to applicants to ask them to take an assessment. Candidates don’t need to create a TestGorilla account, but those taking English-language assessments will be invited to create one and view their results.Â
Test-takers can access assessments on any device at any time. You may also enable them to see a test preview to get a glimpse of the type of questions they’ll be asked.
Each test in TestGorilla’s library takes roughly 10-15 minutes to complete, and full assessments usually take 45 minutes from start to finish.Â
TestGorilla also lets you create qualifying questions so that candidates who don’t meet the criteria for your job won’t spend time completing a full assessment.
Additionally, TestGorilla enables you to add your company’s logo and brand colors to your assessments to make them stand out. You can also add a custom intro or outro video to introduce your company or thank candidates for their time.Â
Talentoday enables you to send personalized invitations to candidates. Applicants must create a Talentoday account to access the assessment, which they can attempt on any device.
Talentoday’s personality assessment takes 20-30 minutes to complete. There are no qualifying questions to determine if an applicant is eligible for your job before they take the test.
The platform offers an online knowledge base for applicants, but support is available by email only.
Users with a Business Package can set up a branded welcome page, but this isn’t available with lower-level packages. Additionally, you can’t include a custom video in the assessment.
| TestGorilla | Talentoday |
Your company’s intro or outro video | Yes | No |
Assessments branded with your company logo and colors | Yes | No (but Business Package includes option for branded welcome page)Â |
Customizable invitation and rejection emails | Yes | Yes |
No login required for candidates | Yes | No |
Help and support for your candidates | Yes | Yes |
Typical assessment length | 45 minutes | 20-30 minutes |
Qualifying questions prior to assessment | Yes | No |
Test preview | Yes | No |
Small businesses and large enterprises alike need to hire talented employees to stay competitive.Â
The pre-employment screening software you choose should be suitable for businesses of all sizes and flexible enough to grow with your business as your hiring needs change.
TestGorilla offers several affordable plans to meet different hiring needs.
For small businesses that only hire new employees occasionally, we offer a free-forever plan that includes unlimited access to five tests.
Businesses that hire more frequently or want access to all our tests can choose from two tiered plans.Â
Our platform works with popular ATS solutions, including SmartRecruiters, Personio, JazzHR, and Workable. You can also use TestGorilla’s built-in API to integrate with your company’s in-house hiring software.
TestGorilla helps companies making a large hiring push keep track of candidates. You can create a unique invitation link for each online job board you use and send invitations to applicants in bulk.
Companies can also use TestGorilla to recruit talent from abroad, as our tests are available in 12 languages.
Talentoday has multiple pricing options based on the number of candidates and employees you want to assess. The software can quickly become expensive if you want to evaluate many job applicants or your company is making a significant hiring push.
Invitations to take an assessment must be sent individually to candidates, as there are no bulk invite options. Talentoday also doesn’t support premade integrations with ATS platforms. However, you can build your own integrations using the Talentoday API.
Talentoday’s assessment is available in six languages, supporting international recruitment.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
ATS integration | Yes | No |
Multiple users and role-based rights management | Yes | Yes |
GDPR compliant | Yes | Yes |
Multiple candidate invitation options | Yes | No |
Public links to invite candidates | Yes | No |
Public links for each candidate source | Yes | No |
Bulk invite candidates (CSV/XLSX upload) | Yes | No |
Track candidate stages from invited to hired | Yes | No |
API access | Yes | Yes |
Bulk actions to manage candidates | Yes | No |
Quality-control measures ensure your pre-employment tests are science-backed and professionally designed.
TestGorilla’s tests are designed based on the latest scientific data. They are reviewed by subject-matter experts, peer reviewers, copywriters, and sample testers. Our 28-step quality-control process ensures our tests are accurate and effective.
In addition, we strive to continually improve the quality of our tests using proprietary algorithms and feedback from hiring teams and candidates. Our tests are continuously reviewed and updated to ensure they meet our customers' evolving needs and exceed industry standards.
Lastly, our questions are replaced after a certain number of exposures.
Talentoday’s assessment is designed using data-backed psychometric standards. Members of the American Psychological Association and the International Test Commission have validated the test.
Talentoday doesn’t replace its questions based on exposure. It also doesn’t modify its test based on customer or candidate feedback.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
Proprietary algorithms that continuously improve the quality of each test | Yes | No |
Extensive quality checks before tests go live | Yes | Yes |
Questions reviewed and updated to limit exposure | Yes | No |
Customer feedback used to improve tests | Yes | No |
Test-taker feedback used to improve tests | Yes | No |
Anti-cheating measures prevent candidates from gaining an unfair advantage during the pre-employment testing process. This is particularly important for skills tests so you can directly compare candidates based on their performance.
TestGorilla offers several anti-cheating measures to keep candidates honest during assessments. Our anti-cheating features include:
Continued review and updating of questions, which helps prevent candidates from anticipating what questions they might be asked.
Randomizing questions for each test. Each test includes a bank of more than 100 questions, of which only a fraction is used per assessment.
Disabling copy and paste. This prevents candidates from plagiarizing answers from outside sources and leaking questions online.
Enabling time limits and deadlines on tests. This prevents candidates from being able to conduct research and finish on time.
Enabling full-screen tracking and alerting hiring managers if a candidate leaves the test window. This could indicate that the applicant is researching answers.
Taking webcam snapshots of a candidate during an assessment. This requires the applicant’s permission to access their webcam.
Tracking test-takers’ IP addresses. This prevents candidates from attempting a test multiple times.
Talentoday doesn’t offer any anti-cheating measures. This is partly because the platform’s assessment evaluates a candidate’s personality rather than their proficiency at specific tasks or skills.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
IP-address logging (to avoid multiple attempts by the same candidate) | Yes | No |
Logging of a candidate’s location | Yes | No |
Webcam snapshots (with the option to turn on/off) | Yes | No |
Full-screen mode detection (to avoid research during the test) | Yes | No |
Randomized questions per test | Yes | No |
Large question pool for each test | Yes (100+) | No |
Questions and answers not visible to employers to protect test integrity | Yes | No |
Time limit on tests | Yes (typically 10 minutes) | No |
Copy-paste disabled | Yes | No |
Flexible and insightful reporting tools enable you to make hiring decisions based on the results of your pre-employment assessments. Your software’s reporting tools should enable you to evaluate candidates in-depth and compare them side-by-side.
TestGorilla offers a detailed report for each candidate that breaks down how they performed on your assessment.Â
You can see their overall score, as well as scores for each test and their responses to individual questions. You can also compare an applicant’s performance against the average for each test.
To help you decide which candidates to invite for an interview, TestGorilla enables you to rank and filter applicants based on their performance. You can also compare two candidates head-to-head (based on factors such as test scores, responses to custom questions, and answers to multiple-choice questions) and add comments to candidate reports.
You can export reports in PDF, XLSX, and CSV format. You can also export data to an integrated ATS platform.
Talentoday offers two reports for each candidate. A one-page report offers a visual breakdown of an applicant’s personality traits, such as patience, empathy, and ambition.Â
A more detailed report provides further information about each applicant’s personality type and how their trait scores compare on average.
In addition, Talentoday offers example interview questions for employers to use based on a candidate’s personality.
Reports are available in PDF format only and can’t be exported to Excel. You also can’t add notes to reports.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
PDF reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | Yes |
Excel and CSV reports of assessments and individual candidates | Yes | No |
Comprehensive overview of all current and past candidates | Yes | No |
Scoring benchmarks for candidates (including percentile rank scoring) | Yes | Yes |
Add your ratings and personal notes for candidates | Yes | No |
A responsive customer support team can prevent delays in your hiring process. The pre-employment hiring software you choose should provide support not only for your company but also for candidates taking an assessment.
TestGorilla offers customer support by email and live chat for both businesses and applicants.
In addition, all TestGorilla users have access to our online help center. This includes tutorials explaining how to craft an assessment, insert custom questions, use reports, and so much more.
TestGorilla also offers training and onboarding sessions for all new customers.
Talentoday offers customer support by phone, email, and live chat for businesses and candidates.
There’s also an online help center, although the tutorials are relatively brief. New customers don’t receive an onboarding tour.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | |
Live chat | Yes | Yes |
Help center | Yes | Yes |
Email support | Yes | Yes |
Training and onboarding tour | Yes | No |
Common pricing models for pre-employment screening software include annual subscriptions and pay-as-you-go plans. Your software provider should offer multiple pricing options to suit different hiring needs.
TestGorilla offers three pricing options with no hidden extra costs. Pricing is based on the number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) you have. For instance, one worker at 40 hours per week or two workers at 20 hours each per week is one FTE.
Free forever at $0: Full access to five tests and five custom questions for companies of any size.
Depending on the size of your company, paid plans begin with:
Starter from $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for businesses with 1-15 FTEs). Full access to TestGorilla’s test library and custom question features.
Pro from $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for businesses with 1-15 FTEs). Maximize your hiring with access to all features in the Starter plan, plus ATS integrations, custom branding options, and video question features.
Teams of 15 or fewer FTEs must subscribe to an annual plan, but all plans include testing for unlimited candidates. Additionally, teams of 50+ FTEs can take advantage of our 15-day free trial.Â
Talentoday’s pricing varies based on the number of applicants you wish to test. You can test up to 10 candidates for $400 per year or up to 100 for $3,000 per year. To sign up for a plan, you must contact Talentoday for a custom quote.
All plans include one seat for a hiring manager or recruiter. Additional seats are available for $250 per year each.
Talentoday offers a 15-day free trial but no free plan.
TestGorilla | Talentoday | ||
Plan | Price | Plan | Price |
Free | $0 | No free plan | |
Starter | From $75 USD per month ($900 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs) | Discovery | $400 per year |
Pro | From $115 USD per month ($1,380 per year paid upfront for companies with 1-15 FTEs) | Business | $3,000 per year |
A good user experience is key to ensuring that your hiring team is excited to use your pre-employment screening software. The platform you choose should be easy to learn and offer tools to streamline the recruitment process.
TestGorilla provides an excellent user experience and has a very short learning curve.
It’s easy to create a new assessment in TestGorilla. Our software will suggest which tests to include based on the title of your open job. You can also add custom questions to any assessment in just a few minutes.
You can use personalized invitations and bulk applicant management tools to share your assessment. You can also place unique links on every site where your job is advertised and integrate TestGorilla with your ATS platform.
After candidates take an assessment, hiring teams can comment directly on reports for collaboration. You can also filter and rank candidates or compare two candidates side-by-side. All of TestGorilla’s reporting tools are intuitive and actionable.
Find out what sets TestGorilla apart in hiring. Sign up for our free plan and access comprehensive tools for effective candidate screening.
Talentoday doesn’t enable you to create custom tests. So, it only takes a few clicks to send an invitation to a candidate to get started. However, Talentoday doesn’t support bulk invitations or integrate with your ATS platform.
Talentoday’s reports are shareable, and the one-page report is very easy to interpret. The software doesn’t enable hiring teams to comment on reports, thereby inhibiting collaboration. However, HR managers can compare candidates based on their personality traits with relative ease.
TestGorilla and Talentoday each offer pre-employment screening tests to help you find the best candidate for any open position. For most businesses, TestGorilla can provide more actionable information about applicants.
TestGorilla offers 400+ tests that assess a candidate’s personality traits, job-specific skills, and work culture fit. In contrast, Talentoday offers only a single personality test. TestGorilla also lets you add custom questions to your assessments, which isn’t possible with Talentoday.
TestGorilla has a wide range of pricing options to perfectly suit your company’s hiring load. The platform is easy to use and can integrate seamlessly into the ATS software your business already uses. Plus, TestGorilla has handy features to promote better collaboration within hiring teams.
Overall, TestGorilla is a much more comprehensive option – and the superior choice for talent assessment today.
Pre-employment testing can help you quickly understand what skills and qualities a job candidate will bring to your organization.Â
Compared with traditional recruitment processes, such as resume screening and preliminary phone calls, pre-employment testing is invaluable for saving company resources and efficiently deciding who to invite for an interview.
TestGorilla is the right pre-employment testing platform to help you make your next great hire. Sign up for a free 45-minute live demo today and see how we can improve your hiring process!
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