Portuguese proficiency test B1: Pre-employment screening assessment to hire the best candidates

Use our Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test to hire the best

The Portuguese – Portugal (intermediate/B1) test evaluates a candidate’s Portuguese proficiency at the B1 level of the CEFR framework. This test will help you hire employees who can communicate in Portuguese on subjects commonly encountered at work.

Covered skills

Basic grammar and vocabulary
Composing sentences
Reading comprehension
Listening comprehension

Use the Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test to hire

Editors, writers, content creators, customer success managers, and other employees that need to be proficient in Portuguese to perform well in their roles.

Type

Language

Time

10 min

Languages

English

Level

Advanced

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About the Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test

Employees who are proficient in Portuguese will enrich your company’s internal and external communications by clearly and effectively discussing ideas, plans, and goals with customers and colleagues. They will also be able to write well-structured reports, presentations, and other material in Portuguese to help promote the company’s brand and ideas to others.

The Portuguese (proficient/C1) test evaluates a candidate’s ability to communicate at the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages. The test evaluates candidates in the areas of grammar and vocabulary, sentence composition, reading comprehension, and listening comprehension.

Employees who are proficient in Portuguese can express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much searching for expressions. They can understand demanding, longer texts and recognize implicit meaning in both written and verbal communications. They use the language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes and can produce detailed texts on complex subjects, showing a controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices.

The test is made by a subject-matter expert

Margarida M.

Margarida Madeira channels her love of languages into translation (from French and English to Portuguese) and the development of e-learning content for Portuguese learners. Drawing on years of experience, she strives to use her knowledge to help bridge the distance between languages.

This Lisbon resident speaks Portuguese and English fluently, but her linguistic prowess doesn’t stop there. Her skills also include proficiency in French and Spanish.

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What is an online C1 Portuguese proficiency test? How will it help you?

The online Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test helps help you evaluate your candidates’ fluency in the Portuguese language.

In today’s market, it’s challenging to find candidates with the right business-operational skills in addition to the Portuguese language skills necessary for certain roles.

Three significant factors negatively impact the hiring process:

• Limited candidate pool: You may be getting many more applications for your open roles these days, but they’re not necessarily the candidates you want applying for the job. Many candidates use the “shotgun approach,” applying to as many jobs as possible without looking in detail at the requirements of the roles. They do this hoping that one of those applications will be fruitful – but this only creates a problem for the hiring manager who needs to go through hundreds of unqualified applications, losing precious time, and in the process not giving enough attention to the qualified candidates.

• Hiring bias: Add to that the hiring bias that occurs during the recruitment process and you could have a recipe for a bias disaster. Hiring managers sifting through hundreds of bad applications to find a handful of good ones find it impossible to avoid unconscious bias: From the Halo effect to the confirmation bias, various kinds of bias and the lack of an objective recruitment method frequently lead to hiring the wrong candidate.

• Resume dependence: Finally, the overreliance on resumes fails to properly identify suitable candidates for a given role. Not only do candidates “overestimate” their skills on their resumes, but the hiring manager finds themselves evaluating their resume writing skills instead of the real, practical, and actionable skills that they want to see in a prospective employee.

You can solve all of these problems with a pre-employment test like the Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test.

What will you be evaluating with the Portuguese (proficient/C1) test?

With a Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test, you’re evaluating if the candidates have an advanced level of language fluency. The test itself evaluates the four fundamental aspects of language proficiency in 10 minutes:

• Grammar: This section assesses your candidate's abilities to think about an idea and present it in written form in Portuguese. A candidate with C1 Portuguese shouldn’t have any problems exploring even complex topics in the language.

• Vocabulary and spelling: The test’s speaking section requires your candidates to talk in the Portuguese language at the C1 level. The test evaluates whether candidates can form coherent and clear sentences and discuss complex topics.

• Reading comprehension: The reading comprehension component presents your candidates with a Portuguese text and tests their understanding of its meaning. A candidate with a C1 level in the language shouldn’t struggle much with complex and technical written language.

• Listening comprehension: The listening section is often the most difficult. Your candidates have to listen to a conversation in Portuguese and decipher what's being discussed. A C1 level candidate will understand language nuances and idioms and they should be able to understand everything that’s spoken.

With a Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test, you can gather the necessary data to make an informed decision about your candidates. This test works wonders in hiring candidates in editorial, content creation, or customer success manager roles that require C1 Portuguese.

Use the C1 Portuguese proficiency test to hire top candidates in a matter of days

The Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test solves many of the problems in your hiring process.

The biggest issue in recruitment isn’t failing to hire someone but hiring the wrong candidate. When that happens, you have to do two things: re-open the hiring process and figure out what to do with the unsuitable employee you hired.

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What is the difference between an assessment and a test?

An assessment is the total package of tests and custom questions that you put together to evaluate your candidates. Each individual test within an assessment is designed to test something specific, such as a job skill or language. An assessment can consist of up to 5 tests and 20 custom questions. You can have candidates respond to your custom questions in several ways, such as with a personalized video.

Can I add my own questions to an assessment?

Yes! Custom questions are great for testing candidates in your own unique way. We support the following question types: video, multiple-choice, coding, file upload, and essay. Besides adding your own custom questions, you can also create your own tests.

How do video questions work?

A video question is a specific type of custom question you can add to your assessment. Video questions let you create a question and have your candidates use their webcam to record a video response. This is an excellent way to see how a candidate would conduct themselves in a live interview, and is especially useful for sales and hospitality roles. Some good examples of things to ask for video questions would be "Why do you want to work for our company?" or "Try to sell me an item you have on your desk right now." You can learn more about video questions here.

Can you explain how the other custom question types work?

Besides video questions, you can also add the following types of custom questions: multiple-choice, coding, file upload, and essay. Multiple-choice lets your candidates choose from a list of answers that you provide, coding lets you create a coding problem for them to solve, file upload allows your candidates to upload a file that you request (such as a resume or portfolio), and essay allows an open-ended text response to your question. You can learn more about different custom question types here.

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Can I combine the Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test with other tests?

Yes. You can add up to five tests to each assessment.

Where in my recruitment process should I use the Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1) test?

We recommend using our assessment software as a pre-screening tool at the beginning of your recruitment process. You can add a link to the assessment in your job post or directly invite candidates by email. TestGorilla replaces traditional CV screening with a much more reliable and efficient process, designed to find the most skilled candidates earlier and faster.

What is the difference between intermediate and proficient level of the English language tests?

The intermediate tests test the B1 level of the CEFR framework language skills. The proficient tests, which are more advanced, test the C1 level language skills of a candidate. You can read more about the different skill levels here.

Portuguese – Portugal (proficient/C1)