Best Workplace or Talent Assessment Project Award

HiringBranch delivers significant value to the organizations that have implemented its assessment technology. One global organization saw a 400% reduction in bad hire rates and millions of dollars in savings from using the HiringBranch skills-based hiring assessment. The HiringBranch assessment is a robust, reliable, and ethical solution for hiring teams to scale their hiring efforts and analyze a high volume of candidates easily and effectively.

The objective was to develop a digital language assessment tool that offers valid, reliable, and fair testing across all 24 official EU languages, accommodating special requirements and varying time zones. The development of an online testing platform has transformed the way EU employees and agency staff can demonstrate their language competencies. This state-of-the-art assessment tool is meticulously designed to align with the EU’s 2+1 language skills framework and with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Content and tasks are culturally pertinent and directly relevant to the professional environment of the EU. A pivotal advantage of this digital system lies in its uniform application of evaluation criteria across all 24 languages. This ensures that every language is assessed with consistent fairness. All receptive items are meticulously calibrated to match CEFR standards while the platform empowers assessors to appraise test-takers’ productive responses with more uniformity. This level of calibration in marking, unattainable with traditional paper-based assessments, underscores the online model’s superiority in fairness, accuracy, and reliability in multilingual evaluation