How to Create Assessments for Hiring
Last updated: July 6, 2026
This guide walks through creating and managing hiring assessments in Solidroad - from setting up simulations, attempt limits, and candidate instructions, to testing assessments, sharing them, and reviewing candidate feedback.
Getting Started:
Before you can create or manage any assessment, you need to get to the right place in the platform.
What to do:
Log in to your Solidroad admin account.
Click Hiring in the left panel, then select the Assessments tab.
Why it matters: Every hiring assessment lives under this tab. Starting here keeps you from accidentally editing training content instead of hiring assessments, since the two live in separate areas of the platform.
Step 1: Create a new assessment
This is where you build out the actual assessment candidates will take.
What to do:
Click the Create tab to open the Create Assessment page.
Enter a Name for the assessment.
Enter Candidate instructions — any notes or guidance the candidate should see before starting.
Set an Attempt limit to control how many times a candidate can retake it.
Click Add simulations, select one or more simulations from the list of saved simulations, then click Done.
Click Create to save the assessment.
Why it matters: The name, instructions, and attempt limit set candidate expectations up front and directly affect how fair and consistent the evaluation is across every candidate who takes it.
Step 2: Test your assessment
Before sending an assessment to real candidates, you'll want to confirm it works as intended.
What to do:
From the assessment/interview screen, click 'Test'.
In the pop-up, click Continue.
On the status screen, review each added simulation, the number of attempts taken, and its current status (not started or submitted).
Click 'Start' and then 'Start Interview' to take any simulation yourself.
Why it matters: Catching a broken simulation, confusing instructions, or a misconfigured attempt limit before candidates see it prevents a bad candidate experience and avoids having to invalidate results later.
Step 3: Share the assessment with candidates
Once you're confident the assessment is ready, you can distribute it externally to candidates!
What to do:
Use Edit or Delete on this same screen if you need to make changes before sharing.
From the assessment/interview screen, copy the public link for the assessment.
Why it matters: The public link is what candidates actually receive, so any last edits need to happen before it's distributed - changes made after sharing could create inconsistent experiences between candidates who started at different times.
Step 4: Track assessment statuses and results
After candidates start completing assessments, you'll want visibility into where things stand.
What to do:
Go back to the assessment page and click on the assessment you want to view.
Use the filters to view candidate submissions, or to see who has yet to submit.
Why it matters: Filtering out incomplete assessments and test accounts keeps your results view focused on real, finished candidate submissions - so you're not making hiring decisions based on incomplete or test data.
Step 5: View candidate feedback
The final step is reviewing how each candidate actually performed.
What to do:
Click a candidate's assessment result to open the assessment status page.
Click the dropdown arrow beside the score.
Click View Feedback in the pop-up to see the full feedback page.
Why it matters: Feedback is what turns a raw score into an actionable hiring decision - it's the detail hiring managers need to compare candidates fairly and justify next steps.
Step 7: Browse and organize existing assessments
Once you've created assessments, you're able to search for and organize the assessments under the assessments tab.
What to do:
Use the search box to find an assessment by name, or apply filters to narrow the list to a specific set of assessments.
To organize assessments into folders:
Click the folder icon next to "Create" to add a new folder. New folders appear at the top of the panel.
Select the assessments you want to include, then add them to the folder.
Why it matters: As your assessment library grows, unorganized assessments get hard to find fast. Setting up folders early keeps hiring managers and admins from duplicating work or grading against the wrong version of an assessment.
What's Next?
Now that you've created a hiring assessment, learn how to track performance and view hiring reports!
→Track Hiring Performance and Reporting
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