Pre-Hire Assessments for Higher Education
TeamTrait is one of the industry’s leading pre-hire assessment tools — tailored for higher education institutions. Our advanced psychometric assessments provide deep insights to strengthen your hiring, support your faculty and staff, and build high-performing academic teams. With TeamTrait, you can make smarter hiring decisions, optimize your recruiting of high-potential students, and drive institutional success.
Use better behavioral assessments to build high-performing teams in higher education.
Recruiting and retaining top talent in higher education has never been more challenging. Universities and colleges face increasing competition for skilled faculty, staff, and administrators, all while student expectations and institutional needs continue to evolve.
Traditional hiring methods can result in costly mishires and missed opportunities for campus growth. TeamTrait’s prehire assessments for higher education enable you to identify candidates who thrive in academic environments and who align with your institution’s mission.
Our assessments evaluate the soft skills essential for teaching, recruiting, research, administration, and student support—such as adaptability, collaboration and communication. You’ll also be able to predict how candidates will respond to the unique pressures of academia, from managing diverse classrooms to navigating complex stakeholder relationships.
By building stronger teams, your institution is also better positioned to attract and support high-potential students, creating a virtuous cycle of academic excellence.
Institutional success starts with hiring the right people.
Academic roles demand more than just subject-matter expertise. Successful faculty and staff must demonstrate empathy, resilience, and the ability to create inclusive and psychologically safe learning environments.
Unfortunately, traditional interviews and CVs often fail to reveal these critical traits. With TeamTrait, you no longer have to guess how a candidate will perform under the demands and standards of higher education.
This approach not only improves your hiring outcomes but also ensures that your teams are equipped to mentor and inspire high-potential students, further enhancing your institution’s reputation.
After a 20-minute psychometric assessment, you’ll receive a comprehensive report on each candidate’s behavioral profile, strengths, and potential challenges. This empowers you to make confident, data-driven hiring decisions without unintentional bias.
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TeamTrait is the right tool to help you develop and retain your higher education workforce.
Retaining talented faculty and staff is just as important as hiring them. TeamTrait supports your long-term workforce strategy by matching employees with the right supervisors and departments, which reduces turnover and boosts engagement.
Our platform provides actionable insights for professional development and succession planning. It can also alert you to potential issues such as misalignment with institutional culture or risk of burnout.
By supporting equity-minded hiring and helping you evaluate candidates objectively and inclusively, TeamTrait advances your diversity goals. Stronger teams not only improve institutional outcomes but also create the supportive environments that attract high-potential students and help them thrive.
Use TeamTrait to improve self-awareness and campus culture.
When employees understand their behavioral profiles, they feel valued and understood. This leads to greater motivation and engagement.
TeamTrait helps leaders tailor motivation and recognition strategies to each team member’s unique drivers. It also provides communication tips based on personality insights, making difficult conversations easier and more productive.
By identifying natural roles and working styles, you can structure teams for collaboration and innovation. This improved self-awareness and team cohesion translate into a more vibrant campus culture—one that is attractive to both talented employees and ambitious students.
TeamTrait can reveal skill gaps for academic and administrative roles.
Whether you’re hiring faculty, student advisors, admissions staff, or administrators, TeamTrait’s assessments highlight subject-matter expertise and cognitive abilities. The platform also reveals leadership, teamwork, and problem-solving skills, as well as potential for growth and adaptability in a changing academic landscape.
By using our proprietary tools, you can build teams that excel in teaching, research, and campus operations. This, in turn, helps your institution recruit and retain high-potential students who are seeking a dynamic and supportive academic environment.
TeamTrait is the best pre-hire assessment and aptitude testing platform
for building high-performing teams in higher education.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Pre-hire assessments provide objective, standardized data that improve the accuracy and fairness of hiring decisions. This reduces bias and increases the quality of hires.
By aligning candidates to roles and supervisors, you increase satisfaction and retention, which reduces costly turnover. These assessments allow you to evaluate beyond the resume, considering soft skills, cultural fit, and potential for long-term success.
Every applicant is evaluated fairly, which increases trust and reinforces your institution’s commitment to their success. Ultimately, these benefits help you build a reputation as an employer and educator of choice, attracting both top talent and high-potential students.
Yes. By ensuring new hires are well-matched to their roles and supervisors, you increase satisfaction and retention, and reduce costly turnover.
Pre-employment tests are considered reliable and valid predictors of job performance when they are well-designed, job-related, and scientifically proven over time. While no assessment is 100% accurate or can guarantee against bad hires, because their personal lives sometimes get in the way, they are significantly more predictive than interviews alone. The best results come from using pre-hire assessments as part of a broader, multi-method hiring process.
Core assessments for non-administrative roles take about 20 minutes. For leadership or specialized positions, additional modules may take up to 30 minutes.
Pre-hire assessments help provide a positive candidate experience by ensuring every applicant is evaluated fairly and objectively, giving everyone an equal opportunity to demonstrate their strengths beyond just their resume. These assessments also allow employers to avoid placing people in situations where they’re unlikely to succeed. By showing candidates that you care about matching them to roles where they’ll thrive, you build trust and reinforce your commitment to their long-term success and satisfaction.
They should help answer two questions: Should the manager spend their time interviewing them, and should they hire the candidate?
Our assessments are designed to minimize bias and support equity-minded hiring practices, helping you build diverse and inclusive teams.
This page is tailored for higher education institutions, drawing on best practices in academic hiring, workforce planning, student recruitment, and employee retention.
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