26 Feb 2026

Psychometric Assessment Technologies
Six months ago, we met with an Australian firm that paid very well and tended to hire smart people, at least by educational standards. They were struggling to reconcile losing their top 15% of performers in half a year. When we looked deeper using psychometric testing, we saw a pattern. Many high achievers scored high on agreeableness and very low on stress resilience. That was the re...

18 Nov 2025

Psychometric testing has travelled an extraordinary path over the last two millennia—from hand-scored civil service examinations to today’s adaptive, AI-assisted assessments that inform hiring, development, and workforce planning at scale. Along the way, the field has been shaped by breakthroughs in psychology, statistics, and measurement theory, and by social movements and legal framewo...