Business judgment

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Summary of the Business judgment test

This business judgment test evaluates a candidate’s ability to make the right trade-offs and decisions in a business context. This test will help you hire business executives and strategy consultants with a good nose for value.

Covered skills

  • Chart iconStrategy & innovation
  • Chart iconSales & marketing
  • Chart iconPerformance improvement, org, finance, and mergers & acquisitions

Use the Business judgment test to hire

Candidates for roles that require strong business judgment such as strategy consultants, business executives, private equity associates, and analysts.

Document file icon Type

Role specific skills
Situational judgment

Clock icon Time

10 min

Flag icon Audience

English speaking

Chart icon Level

Advanced

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About the Business judgment test

Executives and strategy consultants are constantly involved in decision making that can make or break a business. A sustainable competitive advantage can only be attained by those who consistently make the right judgment calls in the face of uncertainty. Whether those judgments involve the company strategy, a business plan, or trade-off within performance improvement projects, there is value at stake in all of them.

This test evaluates candidates' judgment in the areas of corporate and portfolio strategy, innovation, cost transformation, digital transformation, procurement, supply chain, organization, operating model, behavior change, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, sales, pricing, customer segmentation, value propositions, go-to-market, and customer experience.

The scenarios are framed in such a way that not only experienced professionals but also recent graduates can demonstrate their judgment ability; knowledge of concepts, frameworks, or theories will not help candidates perform any better.

This screening test will help you identify candidates with the ability to make the right judgment calls in difficult business contexts to improve the competitive position of the company.

The test is made by a subject-matter expert

Otto V.

Otto worked at Bain & Company for 13 years and served as a Partner in Bain's Amsterdam office. He specializes in customer strategy and marketing, growth strategies, and change management. He supported mainly retail banks, telecom companies, and agrifood businesses. Otto has been involved in recruiting throughout his career and led Bain's Associate Recruiting department for a number of years. He is one of TestGorilla's co-founders, focusing on test development, product, and technology.

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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 10 custom questions. You can have candidates respond to your custom questions in several ways, such as with a personalized video.
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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.
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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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Which situational judgment tests do you offer?
We offer the following situational judgment tests: Leadership & People Management, Business Ethics & Compliance, Business Judgment, and Negotiation.

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