This step-by-step guide walks you through how to create assessments in Canditech. Whether you are a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR professional, Canditech offers flexible ways to build assessments that align with your hiring goals, from fast and automated to fully customized.
In this article, you will learn how to leverage our AI Assessment Builder, explore ready-made test templates, use expert-designed library sections, and create assessments entirely from scratch. No matter your approach, Canditech gives you the tools to build assessments that match your role requirements and candidate experience needs.
In Canditech, you can create assessments in four different ways.
First, you can use AI Assessment Builder, our fastest and most guided option. The AI Assessment Builder helps you generate a complete, role-specific assessment by simply providing a job title and description. Based on this input, the builder automatically suggests relevant Canditech Library sections, giving you a strong starting point that you can further edit and customize.
Second, you can build an assessment using our Library of 500+ ready-to-use sections, created by subject-matter experts for a wide range of roles and industries. These sections can be used as-is or fully customized. You can edit questions, add new ones, or remove anything that is not relevant.
Third, you can quickly by choose from our expertly crafted ready-made test templates, tailored to specific roles and topics such as Digital Marketing or Excel Skills. These templates are designed to reflect real job requirements and best practices.
Fourth, you can create an assessment entirely from scratch. This option gives you full control over structure and content. You can choose from a wide variety of question types, including coding, SQL, Excel, multiple-choice, video response, written response, and more. You can also upload your existing company tests directly into Canditech.
In this article, we'll go over your 4 assessment-building options step-by-step:
Creating an Assessment using the AI Assessment Builder
Canditech’s AI Assessment Builder is the fastest way to create a role-specific assessment. By entering a job title and providing the job description, the AI Assessment Builder automatically generates a complete assessment structure aligned with the role’s skills, seniority, and real-world requirements.
The AI Assessment Builder analyzes the role and suggests relevant assessment sections and skill areas, removing the need to manually decide what to test or how to structure the assessment. This makes it an ideal starting point when building a new assessment from scratch or when you want to ensure strong coverage of core competencies.
Assessments created with the AI Assessment Builder are fully flexible and customizable. You can edit or remove any suggested sections, add additional Library sections, adjust questions, or combine the AI Assessment Builder's content with other assessment-building options to match your exact hiring needs and candidate experience goals.
For more information on additional AI Features offered by Canditech, click here.
To create an assessment using the AI Assessment Builder, select "Create Assessment with AI" from the homepage of yoru Assessment Tab.
Once you click on "Create Assessment with AI", you will be prompted to select the role you are hiring for. You can either choose one of the suggested roles displayed on the screen or type in a custom role name.
After selecting the role, the AI Assessment Builder will ask for additional context about the position. You can share this information in one of the following ways: by pasting a URL to the job description, copying and pasting the full job description directly into the chat, or providing a brief summary of the key responsibilities and required skills. The more detailed the information you provide, the more accurately the AI Assessment Builder can generate relevant assessment sections and questions tailored to the role.
The AI Assessment Builder will summarize the key information extracted from the job description or role requirements you provided. Review this summary to ensure it accurately reflects the role and expectations.
Once confirmed, you can reply with “Looks good” to proceed. The AI Assessment Builder will then generate a recommended assessment, including relevant sections, question types, and estimated completion time, all tailored to the role. You can review the suggested structure before deciding whether to proceed as-is or request adjustments.
Once the assessment structure has been generated, click "See in Assessment Builder" to open it in the Assessment Builder. From here, you can review the full assessment and customize every detail, including editing questions, adjusting time limits, adding or removing sections, and incorporating additional sections if needed.
Creating an Assessment using Library Sections
Canditech's extensive library contains over 500+ ready-to-use sections that are designed to help you evaluate your candidates' skills for various industries, roles, and topics. Created by industry experts and psychologists, Canditech's sections contain a large variety of questions and exercises to ensure you receive a comprehensive understanding of your candidate's skills. These sections are an excellent solution for Canditech users seeking the flexibility to select the specific skills and topics that will be included in their assessment, based on their unique hiring needs. All sections in the library are also 100% customizable, so you can easily add, delete, or change questions.
To create an assessment using Library Sections, select "create assessment" from the homepage of your Assessment Tab.
Note: you can also browse the Library by clicking "explore library", also from the homepage of your Assessments Tab on the top right. The process of browsing and selecting sections through this option is virtually the same as the process outlined below. The only difference is that you will be prompted to name your assessment after selecting a section, rather than doing so beforehand).
Once you click on "create assessment", you will be prompted to write which role you are creating an assessment for (for example, data analyst). Input the name of the role and click save.
Your assessment will be automatically titled based on the role you've specified.
The Assessment Position is displayed to candidates when they take the test. Therefore, it's important to choose a descriptive and accurate title.
Additionally, you have the option to set an internal Assessment Name. Candidates won't see this name; it's purely for your team's reference and can help differentiate between various assessments. For instructions on changing the Assessment position or name, click here.
Once your assessment has been titled, your new Assessment Page will open up with a blank first Section.
To begin creating your assessment using library sections, click on "select question set from library".
From there, the Canditech Library will open.
Canditech's library features 6 filters designed to simplify your search and allow you to easily sort and find the specific topics you're interested in.
Job-specific skills - This filter allows you to browse the library based on the industry or role for which you are designing an assessment, such as customer-facing positions or marketing roles.
Cognitive Skills - This filter allows you to browse our range of cognitive skill evaluations, such as attention to detail and critical thinking, and soft skill evaluations, such as effective communication skills.
Personality Tests - This filter allows you to browse our 3 Personality Assessments: The Big 5, the DISC, and the Enneagram Model. To read more about the Personality Tests offered by Canditech, click here.
AI Skills - This filter allows you to browse curated library sections designed to assess candidates’ AI literacy and practical use of AI tools across different roles and seniority levels. These sections focus on evaluating how candidates understand, apply, and reason about AI in real-world work scenarios, including AI prompting, responsible AI usage, and role-specific AI applications.
Leadership & Management Skills - Explore curated library sections designed to assess and refine managerial competencies and leadership aptitudes.
Generic Skills - With this filter, you can browse our wide variety of general, cross-industry, skill evaluations, including computer literacy skills, English language proficiency, general math skills, and much more.
Company Filter - The filter labeled with your company's name (which appears as “Canditech” in the image above), houses the sections that have already been created and saved within your company's account. For example, any sections generated by a user in your organization, whether from scratch or selected from Canditech's library for a different assessment, will be readily available for you to reuse here.
Now that you understand how to navigate the library, you can begin adding the sections of your choice into your newly created assessment.
Select any Section from the column on the left to view its contents.
Click ‘Add questions’ in the bottom right corner to add it to your Assessment.
Your added Section will appear in your assessment.
To add additional sections, click on the ‘Add section’ button on the bottom of your page.
After adding in your library sections, you are free to make any changes or customizations, including adding, deleting or changing questions, and much more.
Creating an Assessment using ready-made test templates
Canditech's ready-made test templates, expertly crafted by industry leaders, provide an excellent solution for Canditech users looking to quickly begin evaluating their candidates. Each template offers a comprehensive evaluation for specific roles or subjects and can be used as-is or customized to your specific needs.
To create an assessment using our ready-made templates, select the option to "browse our ready-to-use examples" from the homepage of your Assessment Tab.
From there, the library of test templates will open.
For every template, you can easily see its intended industry or role (e.g., Data & BI, Sales), along with a concise overview of the assessment's content and the allotted time limit.
Select "More details" to open up a more in-depth summary of the assessment template, as well as it's section-by-section breakdown.
Select the eyeball icon to preview and take the assessment template from a candidates' perspective.
To add the template to your account, select "Use as template" in the bottom right-hand corner.
Great! Your ready-made assessment template will be added to your Assessment Tab for you to use as-is or customize 100% to your liking.
For information about customizing your chosen assessment template, click here.
Creating an Assessment from Scratch
While we have a wide range of ready-to-use sections in our library, we understand that roles vary across companies. This is why Canditech offers its users the flexibility to quickly and easily create an assessment entirely from scratch. This is a great option for users who would like to design a 100% customized assessment tailored explicitly to their company's unique needs. It's also a great option for those who wish to implement their existing assessments while benefiting from Canditech's wide array of question types and assessment features.
To create an assessment from scratch, select "create assessment" from the homepage of your Assessments Tab.
Once you click on "create assessment", you will be prompted to write which role you are creating an assessment for (for example, data analyst). Input the name of the role and click save.
Your assessment will be titled based on the role you inputted. For more information on titling your assessment, click here.
Once your assessment has been titled, your new Assessment Page will open up with a blank first Section.
To begin creating your assessment from scratch, click on "create question from scratch".
Select the question type you'd like to add, and create your question.
Note: For information and instructions on the various Question types, click here.
To add more questions, select "Add question". Add as many Questions as desired.
To add an Intro text or info section, click on "Add intro text".
Note: Info sections can be used to provide additional information or instructions to candidates about tasks in the assessment. Info sections can also be used to create sub-sections within your Assessment.
Once you're finished creating your questions from scratch, you can create a relevant title for your section by clicking on "Section 01".
Title your section and click save.
To add additional sections, click on the ‘Add section’ button on the bottom of your page.
For instructions on editing your Assessment's content, click here.
For instructions on editing additional assessment features, such as your Welcome Page, your email correspondence to candidates, and your Proctoring Settings, click here.
To learn more about our skill assessment solutions, you can visit our website.