For public sector.
Public sector talent assessment solution
Score every applicant for a federal, state or municipal role against the competencies the position actually requires, structured, consistently scored, and documented for EEOC-defensible hiring.
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Score applicants against the job classification, not the résumé
One posting for a municipal clerk or a state agency analyst can draw hundreds of applications, and most are still screened by hand against a position description written years ago. Testlify replaces that read-through with a role-specific assessment, so every applicant is scored on the competencies the classification actually calls for and the results come back ranked.
Assemble the assessment from 3,500+ validated tests, cognitive ability, situational judgment, domain knowledge, written communication, or author your own questions for a role with no off-the-shelf equivalent, such as a permit inspector, a benefits caseworker or an emergency dispatcher.
Widen the field beyond candidates who already work in government
Screening on prior public sector experience narrows the pool to people already inside it, which is a problem when you are competing for the same scarce analysts and engineers as private employers. A skills-based assessment lets a logistics coordinator from industry and a career civil servant sit the same test and be compared on the same evidence.
Cognitive ability, problem-solving and situational judgment tests surface candidates whose capability does not show up on a résumé, the ones worth hiring for aptitude and training on your own statutes, systems and procedures.
See what skills your agency already has before you post externally
The same assessments run on the people you already employ. Test across a department and you get an evidence-based read on where capability actually sits, how much real cloud, security and data coverage a municipal IT team has, or which caseworkers are ready for a senior classification.
Skill breakdowns give internal mobility and promotion decisions something more defensible than a supervisor's recollection, and show which lines of the training budget are worth defending at the next hearing.
Test the competencies the role is graded on
Public sector roles are usually defined by a competency framework, and hiring panels are expected to evidence each one. Testlify maps to that structure: build an assessment per competency, weight them the way the classification does, and get a per-competency score for every candidate rather than one overall number.
Because every candidate for a posting receives the same assessment under the same conditions, the exercise behaves like a structured civil service examination, with the scoring, timing and records handled for you.
Clear the screening backlog without shortening the process
Assessments are scored automatically as candidates submit them, so a panel that used to spend weeks on first-round screening opens a ranked shortlist instead. The steps your policy requires stay in place; the manual sorting in front of them does not.
Results sync to 100+ ATS platforms, so scores land in the system of record your agency already runs and the audit trail stays in one place.
Keep a defensible record of how every candidate was assessed
Every assessment leaves the same artifacts: the questions asked, the answers given, the score awarded and the time taken. When a hiring decision is questioned, by an unsuccessful applicant, an auditor or a records request, the reasoning is documented rather than reconstructed.
Aggregate results also show which assessments actually predict performance in your roles, so the next round of hiring is built on your own data instead of a vendor's benchmark.
Candidate data handled to the standards your security review will ask about
Testlify is SOC 2 Type 2 audited and ISO 27001 certified, and supports GDPR and CCPA obligations for applicant data. Agencies subject to data-sovereignty requirements can select the country or region where their data is stored.
Access is role-based, so a panel member sees the assessments they are scoring and nothing else, the standard question in any public sector security review.
Run assessments under your own agency's branding
Candidates applying to a government role expect to stay on your brand, not be handed off to an unfamiliar commercial site midway through. White-label the assessment with your agency's logo, colors and domain so the experience reads as an official step in your process.
For shared service centers hiring on behalf of several departments, each can carry its own identity while running on one account with unlimited users.
Build an EEOC-defensible, accessible hiring process
Merit-system and equal-opportunity obligations mean a public employer has to show why one candidate was advanced over another. Structured, identically administered assessments produce exactly that: the same questions, the same scale and a documented score for every applicant, with résumé details kept out of the scoring.
Testlify commits to WCAG 2.1 AA in its accessibility policy, so candidates using assistive technology can complete the same assessment as everyone else rather than requesting a separate process.
Pilot it on one hard-to-fill classification
You do not need a procurement cycle to find out whether this works. Take the requisition that has sat open longest, build an assessment for it, and compare the shortlist against what your current screening produced.
The trial runs for 7 days with no credit card and no user limit, so the whole panel can review candidates before anyone is asked to sign anything.
Integrations.
Testlify integrates seamlessly with 100+ ATS tools
Streamline your hiring process from assessment to onboarding. Sync candidate data effortlessly, automate workflows, and gain deeper insights to make informed hiring decisions faster.
Security & compliance.
Cleared the security review before you ask
SOC 2 Type 2 audited, ISO 27001 certified, and built to support GDPR and CCPA obligations for applicant data, with role-based access control, configurable retention and selectable data residency. Testlify also commits to WCAG 2.1 AA in its accessibility policy.
Testimonials.
What our customers are saying about Testlify
G24.7As a staffing agency, we frequently hire for different roles and Testlify's extensive test library across various domains was invaluable in finding the right candidates for our diverse range of client requirements.
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