Instrument · Judgment

What will they do when it’s their call?

Resumes claim judgment; interviews perform it. A situational judgment test measures it — realistic dilemmas with real trade-offs, scored against expert keys, graded for partial credit rather than right-or-wrong.

Judgment is one

5 fits

Answers

3 per candidate

By design

0 trick questions

How it works

Scenarios with a defensible key

Every scenario is keyed by experts on what effective people actually do — and scored with graded credit, because “nearly right” and “actively harmful” are not the same wrong.

  • Expert-keyed — panels of practitioners key each scenario; disputed items are adjudicated, not averaged away.
  • Graded, not binary — partial-credit scoring separates the good-but-cautious from the confidently wrong.
  • Context-real — conflict, prioritisation, ethics under deadline — the dilemmas your floor actually produces.
  • Feeds the interview — judgment divergences become the exact probes your panel runs live.
What you receive

A report the panel can actually read

Answers up top, 30 facets in plain language underneath, and the exact interview probes worth the panel's forty-five minutes — within minutes of completion. No four-letter labels, no astrology.

Read two real report pages

A real 5Profiler report page: executive scorecard with facet-fit score against role targets, domains at target, critical facets met, red flags and response validity
Real report page · sample-data tenant
Worked example

The dilemma that separates

A client demands a mandated check be skipped “just this once.” Complying scores lowest; quietly delaying scores mid; declining while offering the fastest compliant path scores highest. Candidates sort themselves — and the ones who chose the middle option get a targeted interview probe, not a rejection.

Before you ask

Questions we always get

Can candidates just pick the “nice” answer?

Scenarios are built with costly trade-offs precisely so social desirability doesn’t identify the key — sounding kind and judging well come apart under pressure.

Are scenarios role-specific?

Scenario families map to role context — customer-facing, managerial, safety-critical — and to your declared values where you’ve set them.

How does it combine with personality?

Personality says how they tend to behave; judgment says what they decide in context. When the two disagree, that disagreement is the interview agenda.

Go deeper in the research library: situational judgment tests · work samples and simulations.

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A 30-minute walkthrough with your roles, not a canned deck — and a sample report to keep.