Let’s talk about assessments for a moment. Assessments are take-home tasks and activities sent to candidates during the hiring process to evaluate their skills, abilities, and fit for a specific role.

They’re a key part of hiring that goes beyond just looking at resumes or having a conversation.

They can take the form of assignments, tests, tasks, or real-world challenges and are designed to give deeper insight into how a candidate thinks, solves problems, and approaches work.

It’s more than testing skills; it’s also about understanding how they’ll mesh with your team’s goals and culture. And having a thoughtful assessment process keeps things fair, so you’re choosing based on real potential, not just first impressions. In today’s market, smart assessments can be the difference in building an outstanding team.

The traditional assessment process can feel like a game of hot potato, with inefficiencies that lead to delays and headaches for everyone involved. So, what’s the deal with some of the typical challenges that pop up during assessments?

• Chaotic back-and-forth: Picture this: recruiters shooting off assessments via email, then playing the game of telephone by forwarding responses and questions to reviewers and hiring managers. Before you know it, you’ve got a tangled web of threads across email, and Slack that’s slowing down evaluations and turning the process into a circus.
• Lost in the inbox: Feedback and assessments can easily vanish into the abyss of crowded inboxes, making it a challenge to keep everything organized and accessible for everyone involved. Who hasn’t played hide-and-seek with an important email?
• Lack of a central hub: Without a single source of truth, it’s tough for everyone to debrief on a candidate’s progress and performance. This disconnect can lead to misalignment within the team—oftentimes, missing out on great candidates.
• Limited flexibility: Once assessments are shared, interviewers and hiring managers have little control over the questions. This rigidity means they miss golden opportunities to tweak questions based on real-time insights from candidates and their hiring teams.
• Multiple versions, more errors: If you are juggling different versions of assessments across various documents, it’s a recipe for disaster! Recruiters end up with misplaced files, sending the wrong assessments, and creating inconsistent evaluations. Yikes!

‍Introducing Kula Assessments—a solution designed to simplify and make the assessment process smoother. 

One-click assessment management

• With Kula, you can set up your assessments in one central spot within your interview plan—just once! After that, it’s smooth sailing. You can send them to any qualified candidate with a single click. No more juggling emails or documents each time you need to send an assessment. 
• Candidates receive everything straight in their inbox, and they can respond right in Kula—no logins or passwords needed. 
• If a candidate happens to miss the assessment email, no sweat! You can quickly grab a unique link to their assessment right from their profile. How easy is that?

‍Centralized, seamless review process

• Get instant notifications the moment candidates submit their assessments. Get reviewers to dive into submissions and wrap up scorecards all in one place, without the back-and-forth between recruiters, candidates, and reviewers.  
• Need to tweak a review? You know exactly where to find it.
• All the feedback, scorecards, and notes stay in one view, keeping everyone on the same page. No more digging through Slack, email, or chat for context and feedback—just a smooth, straightforward process that keeps your hiring decisions on point.

‍Flexibility and accuracy, built in‍

• Kula puts you in control of your assessments. Easily update questions, add or remove reviewers, and notify candidates of any changes—all in real time.
• This flexibility ensures your assessments always meet your team’s needs and capture valuable candidate feedback.

With Kula Assessments, you get a single, organized source of truth that keeps your whole hiring team on the same page. No more email clutter or random assessment files floating around—just a streamlined process that helps you find the qualified talent, faster!