Founded in 2005, Cappfinity is the world leader in strengths-based assessment, providing award-winning recruitment and development solutions for organisations across the globe. Cappfinity’s strength-based assessment model has considerably influenced the UK’s recruitment selection, with many major employers moving from competency-based selection to strength-based selection. Cappfinity operates in the UK, US, Australia and Ireland and works with more than 150 organisations.

What types of tests does Cappfinity provide?

There are currently four different types of tests offered by Cappfinity – Situational Strengths Test (SST), Numerical Reasoning Test (NRT), Verbal Reasoning Test (VRT) and Critical Reasoning Test (CRT). Cappifinity also provides an assessment platform and materials throughout the entire recruitment process. If you apply for companies that use Cappfinity as a test provider, you may notice that you will see a similar style of questions or themes from your online test through to your assessment centre.

Luckily, you can practise all Cappfinity style assessments on Learn and Pass. We have developed Numerical Reasoning, Situational Judgement, Verbal Reasoning and Logical Reasoning tests that simulate real assessments to help you feel confident and comfortable during online assessments with your dream companies.

Which companies use Cappfinity as a test provider?

Currently, more than 250 companies use Cappfinity as an assessment provider globally. However, in the UK, the following employers use Cappfinity tests.

Atkins

Aviva

Barclays

BT Group

Capgemini

UK Civil Service

Deloitte

EDF Energy

EY – Ernst & Young

Grant Thornton

HSBC

KPMG

Lloyds Banking Group

M&G

Mazars

Microsoft

Morrisons

Nestlé

NHS

RSM

Schneider Electric

Severn Trent

Standard Chartered

Thomson Reuters

Transport for London (TfL)

How to prepare for Cappfinity style assessments?

Usually, the best way of preparing for an online assessment is practice. You can be more efficient by understanding what you will be facing. According to their website:

–         Situational Strengths Tests (SST) usually come in ranking style, where you will need to rank 4-5 different options from most efficient to least efficient or from what you most likely do in a given scenario to what you least likely do. To do these tests well, you need to understand your target company’s corporate culture and what strengths they may look for from candidates.

–         Numerical Reasoning Tests (NRT) are slightly different to SHL or Cubik’s numerical reasoning tests. Cappfinity’s numerical reasoning test usually requires you to solve one question based on one diagram. In contrast, other numerical tests typically require answering two to four questions based on one diagram. This means you need to react quickly when you do Cappfinity style numerical tests, which can be improved by practising many times. You can see example question here.

An example of Cappfinity Numerical Reasoning Test (source: Cappfinity)

–         The Verbal Reasoning Test provides an assessment of candidates’ verbal cognitive ability, based on the examinee’s capacity to think and analyse written documents correctly and logically. The questions in this test may focus on different topics and appear in various formats, such as completing missing words in sentences, comparing different statements, examining grammar and spelling and making judgements on different statements.

–         The Capp Critical Reasoning Test (CRT) is designed to assess a candidate’s capacity to evaluate evidence, judge arguments and compare hypotheses whilst drawing logical conclusions from the data. The questions in the CRT are based on the modern-day job market and current events. The CRT’s questions may focus on different types of reasoning, such as abduction reasoning, syllogism, and other types of logical reasoning, as well as critical verbal reasoning.