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Customer Service & Admin Assessments

Find People Who Don’t Just Do the Job—They Deliver the Experience.

Why Use Customer Service & Admin Assessments?

The difference between an average hire and a great one isn’t just technical ability. It’s the combination of accuracy, reliability, system capability, and the ability to engage customers professionally, solve problems, and remain composed under pressure.

Our assessment approach uncovers that full picture. By combining objective skills testing with customer service behavioural insight, we provide a clear, evidence-based view of how candidates are likely to perform in real-world roles—day in, day out.
The result? Fewer hiring mistakes, stronger operational performance, and a more consistent, high-quality customer experience.

Assessments Overview

Our assessment suite provides a clear view of both technical capability and customer service behaviour in administrative and customer-facing roles.

We assess core skills such as typing, data entry, digital literacy, Microsoft Office, and call centre scenarios—ensuring candidates can meet the practical demands of the role.

Our Customer Service Personality Assessment goes further, revealing how individuals are likely to engage with customers, handle pressure, and maintain service standards in real-world situations.

The result is a more complete picture of performance—so you can hire people who not only do the job, but consistently deliver a strong customer experience..

Sample Tests & Reports

Explore the full range People Central Administrative & Customer Service Skills Tests below. Each test delivers clear, evidence-based insights into practical skills, helping you make fair and confident hiring decisions. They highlight genuine strengths and areas for improvement, giving you a transparent benchmark to guide both selection and development.

Customer Service Assessment

This assessment evaluates the behavioural patterns that underpin effective performance in customer service roles, where interaction quality and service consistency directly impact customer satisfaction and long-term relationships.

Service representatives are often the primary point of contact with an organisation. This assessment provides a clear, objective view of how individuals are likely to behave in these interactions and how consistently they are likely to deliver service standards in day-to-day environments.

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What the Assessment Measures

  • Identify strengths and gaps in customer service capability
  • Inform selection decisions with behaviour-based insight
  • Support targeted development and coaching
  • Guide more focused behavioural interviews

It focuses on how service is delivered in practice—not just what an individual knows.

Core Service Dimensions

  • Service Orientation – motivation to support and assist customers
  • Customer Interaction – communication effectiveness and rapport-building
  • Service Delivery – consistency and follow-through
  • Service Improvement – openness to feedback and improvement
  • Service Ethics – reliability and adherence to standards
  • Adaptability and Coping – effectiveness under pressure and change

Core Service Dimensions

Work Environment & Role Alignment Insights

The assessment also provides insight into the environments and role demands an individual is most likely to perform well in, including:

  • Working under pressure and sustaining performance
  • Handling sensitive interactions with diplomacy
  • Engaging with the public or presenting information
  • Collaborating with others
  • Operating in competitive or target-driven settings
  • Maintaining high standards and consistency
  • Adapting to changing conditions
  • Working in performance- or incentive-based roles

What This Means in Practice

The result is a clear, evidence-based view of how an individual is likely to behave in customer service situations, how consistently they will deliver service standards, and the environments in which they are most likely to succeed.

What This Means in Practice

Admin Staff Ability Assessment

Aimed at people who have completed secondary school education, the Admin Staff Ability Assessment is a custom combination that blends GCAT with a Checking test with applications in a wide range of admin, clerical and customer services type roles. The assessment includes:

  • Verbal Reasoning to test effectively communicating in everyday business English
  • Numerical Abilities in making sense of everyday office arithmetic and numbers
  • Abstract Reasoning to test how quickly they can learn and grasp new concepts outside of previous experience
  • Clerical Checking Test to test conscientiousness, attention to detail and accuracy in performing repetitive administrative tasks

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Microsoft Office Suite

Please view the full range of Microsoft tests in the ‘IT & Software Skills Tests’ tab of the website. Click here to access.

  • Click here for a MS-Excel 2016 Beginner Level sample report
  • Click here for a MS-Excel 2013 Advanced Level sample report
  • Click here for a MS-Word 2013 Intermediate Level sample report
  • Click here for a MS-Outlook 2016 Intermediate Level sample report
  • Click here for a MS-PowerPoint 2016 Intermediate Level sample report

Contact Centre Scenario Inventory (CCSI)

The CCSI presents candidates with scenarios commonly experienced in contact centres to assess their suitability for working effectively in customer services and sales environments.  Scenarios include:

  • Reaction to customer requests & demands
  • Team member interaction & support
  • Performance and meeting targets
  • Following policy & procedure consistently
  • Adding value
  • Outbound sales

CCSI focuses on personality traits associated with success in contact centre environments.  Clients typically combine the CCSI with the Administrative Assessment to cover both abilities and personality of contact centre candidates.

Take a look at the sample report to see the easy to interpret, then give us a call to add the CCSI to your selection process.

Typing Tests

We have a range of Typing Tests, pick a general test or an industry specific test; all of which assess online a candidate’s copy typing speed and accuracy.

Industry – Specific Typing Tests

  • Technology
  • Medical
  • Legal
  • Banking & Finance
  • Accounting

Data Entry Alphanumeric

This test measures a candidate’s ability to quickly and accurately enter both letters and numbers into database fields, simulating the real demands of administrative and customer service roles. It provides an objective assessment of speed, accuracy, and attention to detail—critical skills for handling large volumes of information without errors. Results help you identify candidates who can maintain productivity and data quality under pressure

Click here to see the easily interpreted performance reports generated from the Alphanumeric Data Entry Test.

Basic Computing Test

Can your candidate perform the absolute basics when working in any system? Ideal for entry level roles and for candidates with limited computing experience to date. The test is in a simulated database/CRM environment where candidates have to actually operate the system to answer questions.

Topics covered:

  • Moving, Maximising & Prioritising Windows
  • Typing, including using arrows, alt & shift keys & backspace
  • Navigation, including pages, hyperlinks, dialogue tabs & scrolling
  • Printing
  • Mouse Operation, including right/left clicks, rolling, drag & drop, cursor changes, selecting from dropdown menus & checkboxes
  • Password creation & management
  • Editing, including menu commands, deleting and changing text

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Digital Literacy Test

A step up from the Basic Computer Literacy Test, this test is set in a simulated environment where candidates need to navigate the software to answer questions and  covers a broad spectrum of computing and software skills including:

  • Web Pages – Opening using links & tabs
  • Desktop – Editing & Administration
  • Files & Disks – Creating folders, copying between disks & renaming files
  • Using Tools & Help
  • Hardware – Identifying & using Printers etc.
  • Software – Word editing & basic Excel formatting.  File management
  • Printing – print preview & printing Word & Excel files
  • Security & Safety – Virus risks
  • Operating System Requirement understanding
  • Email – Opening, writing, sending, forwarding & sorting

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