Arctic Shores vs TalentClick

Arctic Shores provides task-based psychometric assessments to help employers evaluate candidates’ potential. Rather than asking questions, its assessments use interactive tasks and measure candidate behaviour during them. The platform assesses Personality and Workplace Intelligence, which Arctic Shores describes as its answer to Cognitive Ability. Recruiters can assemble assessments with drag-and-drop tools, choose psychologist-designed options, or get help from the company’s team. Candidate and recruiter resources include round-the-clock user support, instant feedback reports, candidate reports, campaign dashboard scores, interview guides, and assessment branding. Listed ATS integrations include Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor, Tribepad, Willo, and Eploy; a standard API is another connection route when an ATS marketplace integration is unavailable. Arctic Shores says it complies with GDPR, UK GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018, is ISO 27001 certified, and encrypts customer data at rest using AES-256. The paid service runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Pricing is available on request.

TalentClick provides behavioral and skills assessments for hiring, employee development, and workplace safety. Its assessments cover personality traits, values and attitudes, cognitive abilities, and other characteristics intended to predict behavior on the job. Reports may include benchmarks, fit scores, suggested interview questions, and management considerations. A cloud portal supports assessment invitations and campaign reminders, fit-score sorting, a benchmark library, analytics, and report building. Assessment methods include normative assessments, self-rating, and multi-rater feedback; listed capabilities also include development plans, competency gap analysis, and role competency mapping. TalentClick offers a partner API and reports integrations with Oracle/Taleo and SAP/SuccessFactors. The company says it is SOC 2 certified, conducts annual voluntary audits, and uses third-party penetration testers. Reports and employee data are stored on US or Canadian servers. TalentClick states at least 99.5% uptime and says support responds to cases within one business day. The free basic account includes one assessment link per organization, active for 30 days, plus up to 20 free AVP uses. Subscription pricing is on request; some surveys and customizations may cost extra.