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Talent assessments by the International Intelligence Federation Every bad hire burns 6 to 9 months of salary. The interview that cleared them lasted 45 minutes.

That's not a hiring process — it's an expensive guess. Insight Metrics replaces gut feel with science: personality profiling, cognitive tests, leadership assessments, decision-making scenarios and role-specific skill evaluations. Every instrument built by psychometricians, not scraped from a textbook.

127
Data points per profile
8
Cognitive functions mapped
34
Page deep-dive report
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✓Grounded in the MBTI® clinical framework
PERSONALITY TYPE
INTJ — Architect
LEADERSHIP SCORE
91st percentile
Candidate Report · Verified · Assessment #4,827
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Anya Rao
Engineering Manager · Assessed 2d ago · 28 min
Overall match
94th
Strong match for role
Personality type
INTJ
"The Architect"
94th 10th 25th 50th 75th 99th
127
Data points
98.2%
Consistency
High
Signal quality
Personality-role fit
+21 vs avg96
Cognitive ability
+17 vs avg92
Leadership
+16 vs avg91
Decision making
+14 vs avg89
Technical skills
+12 vs avg87
Full report unlocks 29 more insights
Cognitive stack Career match Team dynamics Blind spots Growth plan +24 more
Built for
HR TeamsCoachesRecruitersStartupsL&D LeadersIndividuals
The expensive truth

A bad hire costs 6–9 months of salary.
A good assessment costs nothing.

Every year, companies pour six and seven figures into people who looked great in interviews and crumbled in the role. The résumé didn't warn you. The interview didn't catch it. Here's what the research actually says:

85%
of candidates exaggerate on their résumé. One in three outright fabricate qualifications. You're screening fiction and calling it due diligence.
— SHRM Talent Acquisition Research
46%
of new hires fail within 18 months. But here's the kicker — only 11% fail because they lacked hard skills. The rest fail on personality, decision-making and cultural fit.
— Leadership IQ, 5,247-hire longitudinal study
14sec
is how long a recruiter actually reads your résumé. Fourteen seconds. That's not assessment — that's pattern-matching on fonts and college names.
— Ladders Inc., eye-tracking study
How it works

Describe the role. Assess the person.
Know before you offer.

Three steps between "we're hiring" and "we know exactly who to pick." No psychometrics degree required.

Step one

Tell us who you're looking for. We'll build the assessment.

Paste a job description or just describe the role in a sentence. Our engine picks the right mix of personality profiling, cognitive tests, leadership scenarios and role-specific skills — calibrated to what actually predicts success in that seat.

  • No JD? No problem. "We need a lead developer who can manage a team" is enough to start.
  • Full control — swap tests, adjust timers, change scoring weights before you hit send.
  • Ready in under a minute. Share via link, email, or embed in your careers page.
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We need a Senior Engineering Manager who can lead a 12-person team, make sound architectural decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly across functions
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Step two

Candidates take a focused, science-backed assessment.

No two-hour ordeal that top candidates abandon. A focused 20–40 minute battery that measures what actually predicts job performance — not trivia about frameworks they'll Google anyway.

  • Personality profiling — 127 data points across 8 cognitive functions. Not a quiz — a clinical instrument.
  • Leadership & decision-making — situational judgment scenarios that reveal how they think under real pressure.
  • Cognitive + skills tests — timed, adaptive, role-specific. Measures reasoning, not rote memorisation.
Personality
MBTI · 127 data points
Cognitive
GCA · Adaptive
Leadership
Situational · Scored
Skills
Role-specific
Step three

Get a 34-page report your hiring committee will actually read.

Not a vague score card. A deep-dive with cognitive function breakdowns, leadership style analysis, career-path compatibility and a ready-made interview guide — built from what the data revealed, not what the candidate chose to tell you.

  • Side-by-side comparison — rank candidates by fit, not by who had the flashier résumé.
  • Every score is auditable. Drill into any number to see the methodology and underlying responses.
  • Interview playbook — three questions tailored to each candidate's blind spots, auto-generated.
Shortlist · Eng ManagerRanked by fit
1
Anya Rao
INTJ · Leadership 91 · Cognitive 92
94th
2
Karthik Nair
ENTJ · Leadership 88 · Cognitive 90
89th
3
Meera Shah
INFJ · Leadership 90 · Cognitive 82
86th
Assessment library

Every test is built to be the best version of that test.

We don't pad a library with 300 mediocre instruments to win a comparison chart. We build fewer assessments and make each one clinically rigorous, deeply validated, and actually predictive of job performance.

Personality Profiling

Our flagship. A clinical-grade MBTI assessment that maps 127 data points across 8 cognitive functions — then translates it into plain English your hiring panel can actually use.

  • 8 cognitive functions, not just 4 letters
  • Career-path compatibility scoring
  • Relationship & team dynamics mapping
  • Blind spots + 30-day growth blueprint
  • 34-page downloadable PDF report
Flagship · 127 data points

Cognitive Ability

General cognitive assessment — the single strongest predictor of job performance across virtually every role, according to 100 years of industrial psychology research.

  • Logical reasoning & pattern recognition
  • Numerical & verbal reasoning
  • Adaptive difficulty (adjusts to the candidate)
  • Timed, cheat-resistant, mobile-friendly
  • Benchmarked against real performance data
Core · Strongest predictor

Leadership & Decision-Making

Situational judgment tests that put candidates in realistic management scenarios — resource conflicts, team tensions, strategic trade-offs — and measure how they actually think under pressure.

  • Scenario-based, not self-reported
  • Strategic thinking under ambiguity
  • Conflict resolution & delegation style
  • Risk assessment & prioritisation
  • Scored against high-performer benchmarks
New · Situational judgment
The library

Role-specific skills, precision-built.

Targeted assessments for specific roles and domains — each one written by a practitioner, not auto-generated. New tests ship monthly.

10 live · 4 in validation
Software Engineering
Product Design & UX
Data Analysis
Digital Marketing
Sales & Negotiation
Communication
Critical Thinking
Emotional Intelligence
Project Management
Financial Reasoning
More shipping monthly…

Don't see your role? Request an assessment → We'll prioritise it.

The report

34 pages that make the hiring decision obvious.

Most assessment reports give you a number and leave you to guess what it means. Ours reads like a briefing document — cognitive function stack, leadership style, decision-making patterns, team compatibility, career trajectory. Every claim sourced to the underlying response data.

  • 8 cognitive functions mapped — see how a candidate processes information, makes decisions, and leads under stress. Not just "introvert/extrovert."
  • Leadership style analysis — how they delegate, handle conflict, and make calls when the data is incomplete. Scored against high-performer patterns.
  • Team compatibility matrix — see exactly how this person will mesh (or clash) with your existing team's personality types.
  • Growth blueprint + blind spots — so onboarding starts before the offer letter is signed.
See a sample report →
Candidate report
Anya Rao · INTJ "The Architect"
94th
94thBelow avgAverageWell above
Personality-role fit
96
Cognitive ability
92
Leadership
91
Decision making
89
Technical skills
87
What people say

The reports do the selling for us.

We don't have a massive sales team. We have a product that people recommend to each other after seeing their first report.

Verified
★★★★★
We were about to hire a VP of Engineering based on three great interviews. Ran the leadership assessment as a final check — it flagged a decision-making pattern that would have been disastrous with our team structure. Saved us from a six-figure mistake.
SK
Stefan K.CTO · Berlin
Verified
★★★★★
The cognitive function breakdown is something I've never seen from any other platform. It doesn't just tell you "she's an INTJ" — it tells you exactly how she'll respond when the sprint plan falls apart on a Tuesday morning.
PM
Priya M.VP of People · Singapore
Verified
★★★★★
Took the assessment myself before using it on candidates. The 34-page report was eerily accurate about my blind spots. Shared it with my executive coach — she said it was more useful than her own two-hour intake session.
AS
Ana S.Founder · London
★★★★★
4.8 / 5from verified users
Frequently asked

The questions you're actually thinking.

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How is this different from the free MBTI tests everywhere?
Free tests give you a 4-letter label from 20 questions. We analyse 127 data points across 8 cognitive functions and produce a 34-page clinical-grade report with career matching, team compatibility and a growth blueprint. It's the difference between a horoscope and a medical diagnosis.
You're not as big as [competitor]. Why should I trust you?
Because size doesn't equal accuracy. Large platforms often pad their libraries with auto-generated filler to hit marketing numbers. Every instrument we ship is built by a working psychometrician, grounded in peer-reviewed research, and validated before release. We publish our methodology — you can audit any score down to the underlying response.
What assessments do you offer right now?
Personality profiling (MBTI, 127 data points), cognitive ability testing, leadership & decision-making (situational judgment), and role-specific skills tests for software engineering, design, marketing, sales, communication and more. New instruments ship every month — but nothing goes live that hasn't been validated first.
How long does it take the candidate?
20 to 40 minutes depending on the assessment mix. Candidates can pause and resume on any device. We optimise ruthlessly for signal-per-minute — no filler questions that exist to make the test feel important.
The personality test failed miserably at my last company. Why would this be different?
Most "personality tests" in hiring are self-reported questionnaires — candidates know which answers look good and game accordingly. Our instrument uses forced-choice methodology and consistency checks across 127 data points to catch gaming patterns. We also map the full 8-function cognitive stack, not just surface preferences. That's why our reports consistently surprise people who thought they'd "already done MBTI."
What does it cost?
Free to start — no credit card, no "book a demo" gate. Run assessments, see reports, and decide if it's worth paying for before you spend a cent. Paid plans scale with usage, and there are no surprise per-candidate fees. We'd rather you try it and stay than sign a contract and regret it.
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Your next hire is either going to cost you or build you.

Run an assessment on yourself, a teammate, or your next candidate. See the 34-page report. Then decide. No commitment. No credit card. No salesperson following up for the next six months.

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