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TalentCat: Contextual Assessment of Talent
TalentCat takes you from job description to shortlist: a careers page, applications and CV screening, and short, job-relevant assessments in English and Urdu that candidates take on any phone. You get clear evidence on every applicant before the interview.
- No app to install
- Urdu and English
- Every question reviewed by people
Ready-made jobs and question libraries for
A CV can't tell you who can count the till at closing time.
Frontline roles are hired in volume, often by busy managers working from CVs and a short chat. The skills that matter on the job, like quick arithmetic, sound judgement with customers and staying steady on a rush shift, rarely show up on paper.
Generic aptitude tests don't help much either: they are written for graduates, in English only, and feel nothing like the work. TalentCat tests the job itself.
How it works
From job description to shortlist in four steps
- 01
Describe the job
Paste the job description or start from a common role. AI suggests the skills to test, screening questions and CV criteria, and can write or translate the advert. You choose what to keep.
- 02
Build the assessment
The job wizard draws reviewed questions from the library for the role and level: reasoning, job knowledge, workplace situations and work style. Add your own questions if you want.
- 03
Collect applicants
Publish to your careers page. Applicants apply on their phone, upload a CV, answer screening questions and get a personal link to the assessment.
- 04
Shortlist with evidence
Each applicant gets a report and a criteria matrix. Your team marks written answers blind, then moves people through the pipeline in bulk.
What you can measure
Choose what the job needs, at the right level
Every candidate gets the same mix of skills and difficulty, drawn at random from reviewed questions, so no two people see exactly the same test.
Reasoning
Everyday workplace reading, money and quantities, rules and arguments, at three levels of difficulty.
Attention to detail
Spotting the wrong digit on a bill or two swapped letters in a code, as the job demands.
Abstract and spatial
Picture-only questions that suit people who read less easily.
Job knowledge
The procedures, rules and numbers of the role itself, from new starter to senior. Starting with restaurant store managers and bank tellers.
Workplace situations
Six competencies measured by realistic situations, reported as strong, sound or to explore.
Written answers and case studies
Answers in the candidate's own words, in Urdu or English, marked by your team against the same checklist for everyone.
Work style
A short, published self-description scale with points to discuss at interview, never a pass or fail.
Your own questions
Write questions for your roles; only your jobs use them, after your own review.
Features
Everything a hiring team needs, nothing it doesn't
A complete hiring pipeline
Careers page, applications with CV reading, screening rules, a criteria matrix, stages and bulk actions, with every decision recorded.
Reviewed question library
Thousands of questions in Urdu and English, each checked automatically and approved by expert reviewers before any candidate sees it.
English and Urdu
Every assessment, screen and report heading in both languages, with Urdu set in a clear Nastaliq font on every phone.
Made for phones
One question at a time, large tap targets, answers saved as candidates go, and pages light enough for a weak connection.
Fair and watchful
Optional proctoring (full screen, one-way questions, camera snapshots) flags things for a person to review. It never fails anyone on its own.
Your AI, or ours
Use TalentCat's AI, or connect your own provider and key. Personal details are removed before anything reaches an AI.
Reports that explain themselves
Results by area and skill, competencies, written answers, a work-style profile and AI insights with interview questions, as a page or PDF.
Data your way
Every list as cards or a table with filters, chosen columns and export to Excel. Help that matches your role, and release notes with every update.
Privacy by default
Explicit consent, encrypted contact details, records kept per employer, and erasure on request.
Reports
See the whole candidate at a glance
Each submission becomes a report: results by area and skill, competencies, marked written answers, a work-style profile, what proctoring noticed, and insights tied to the role. Download it as a PDF or email it to the hiring manager.
Job knowledge by skill
Work-style profile
Insights
AI-written, for the interviewerAccurate with cash, stock counts and rota hours; strong on customer situations; 8 of 10 points on the written rota question. Describes herself as organised and cooperative, with a steady approach under pressure.
Suggested question: “Walk me through how you would rebuild the rota if two staff called in sick an hour before opening.”
For candidates
An assessment that respects people's time
- One link, one code. No account, no password, no app store.
- Their language. Switch between English and Urdu at any point, and write answers in either.
- Short and fair. Questions feel like the job, each section explains itself first, with a clear timer and no trick questions.
- Clear consent. Candidates see who is asking, why, and how their data is used before they start.
Job-relevant
Every question comes from the real work of the role.
Reviewed by people
AI assists. Expert reviewers and your team decide what is used.
Fair to every candidate
Same questions, same timing, in the language they read best.
FAQ
Questions hiring teams ask
What can we assess?
Reasoning (verbal, numerical, logical, critical thinking), attention to detail, abstract and spatial reasoning, job knowledge for specific roles and levels, workplace competencies, written answers and case studies, and work style. You choose the mix for each job; most assessments take 10 to 25 minutes.
Do candidates need to install an app?
No. They apply or open a personal link in any phone browser, confirm a six-digit code and start. Answers save as they go, so a dropped connection loses nothing.
Where do the questions come from?
From TalentCat's library, written for Pakistani workplaces and approved by expert reviewers, plus any questions your own team writes. A job built only from reviewed library questions is ready at once; your own questions go through your review first.
How is AI used?
To read job descriptions and suggest what to test, to write or translate adverts, to check CVs against your criteria (quoting the CV) and to write report insights. People make every decision, and you can use your own AI provider.
Who marks written answers?
Your team, in the Marking queue, against each question's checklist. Markers see a reference, not the candidate's name.
Who can see results?
Only people in your organisation with the right role. Each employer's records are separate, even when the same person applies to several employers.
Run your first pilot this month
Paste a job description, build its assessment in minutes and publish it to your careers page.
Talk to us: info@talentcat.net · +92 345 8888 027