SHL-grade science. Startup-grade speed.
SHL earned its reputation over decades. 5Profiler measures the same trusted constructs — Big Five tradition, adaptive ability, expert-keyed judgment — and gets you live in a week, with three answers per candidate instead of a scores appendix.
To first pilot
1 week
Personality depth
30 facets
Answers
3 per candidate
Modern delivery of established science
The constructs are peer-reviewed and familiar. What changes is everything around them: adaptive sittings, instant plain-language reports, and a benchmark built from your organisation instead of a generic norm table.
- Live inside a week — role configuration, a test campaign and real candidates — not a quarter-long implementation.
- Plain-language reports — facet depth your panel can read without an occupational psychologist on call.
- Your benchmark — scored against your declared values and your real team, not only population norms.
- One platform — assessment, proctoring and structured interviews on one candidate record, one contract.
Side by side, plainly
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SHL
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5Profiler
one platform, one contract, one candidate record
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Questions we always get
Is the science comparable?
The constructs are the ones the literature validates — Big Five tradition personality at facet depth, adaptive cognitive measurement, expert-keyed situational judgment — with reliability documentation available to your assessment team on request.
Can our I-O psychologists review it?
Please do — the technical documentation pack is written for exactly that review, and the research library publishes sixty sourced briefings on the underlying science.
What does switching cost?
Start with a parallel-run pilot on one role — you keep the reports and the comparison either way.
Go deeper in the research library: what test scores mean · setting cut scores.
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See the science on your roles, this week.
A 30-minute walkthrough with your roles, not a canned deck — and a sample report to keep.