# How to add work scenarios to a position in Truffle > Add a work scenario assessment in Truffle. Truffle drafts scenarios from the role, you set the approach you actually want, and candidates rank the same options. Source: https://www.hiretruffle.com/guides/add-work-scenario-questions Last verified against the product: 2026-07-28 Time required: 8 min Every screenshot and label below was captured from the live product. **Outcome.** By the end you'll have a position that puts every candidate through the same set of realistic work situations, scored against the approach you said you wanted — not against a hidden answer key — with the result sitting alongside everything else you know about them. ## Before you start - A Truffle account. The free trial works. 7 days, 30 credits, no card required. - A filled-in role brief. Truffle drafts the scenarios from what you write about the role, so a thin brief gets you generic situations and a specific one gets you the arguments this job actually has. ## Steps ### 1. Write the role, and mean it Work scenarios are drafted from the role and its brief, so this step does more work here than it does anywhere else in the wizard. Describe what the job actually involves and where it gets hard — the pressure, the judgement calls, the people who disagree. A brief that says "strong communicator, team player" produces scenarios about communication and teams. A brief that says the person has to qualify honestly even when it costs them the meeting produces a scenario about exactly that. ### 2. Open Assessments and pick Work scenarios On **Build position**, switch on **Assessments**. Three types appear, each with what it measures and roughly how long it takes a candidate: **Personality** (~4 min), **Work Scenarios** (~5 min) — _"See how candidates would handle real work situations and whether their approach matches your team's style"_ — and **Environment Fit** (~4 min). Tick **Work Scenarios**. > Note: Opening the section is not the same as choosing a type. Until you tick one, the component stays off. ### 3. Nothing else has to be switched on Work scenarios can carry the screen by itself. **Next: Configure** stays enabled with no resume screen and no video interview — unlike collecting resumes during the screening process, which does need something else alongside it. If a scenario assessment is all you want to run, that's a complete position. ### 4. Let Truffle draft the set Move to **Configure screening** and Truffle reads the role — _"Finding the best scenarios… AI is analyzing your position to suggest relevant work scenarios"_, which takes about fifteen seconds. What comes back is specific to the job, not a generic pack. For a sales development role that meant _Key prospect goes silent_, _Customer cites false competitor claim_, _Quota pressure vs customer fit_, _Territory overlap with colleague_, _Critical feedback from supervisor_ and _Sudden workload spike_. > Note: Every scenario arrives with an approach already chosen and tagged **AI suggested**, so the counter reads _All set_ before you've touched anything. That's a starting position, not a decision — the next step is checking whether you agree with it. ### 5. Open a scenario and set the approach you actually want Expand any scenario and you get the situation plus four responses. For _Key prospect goes silent_: **Graceful exit** — _"Send a thoughtful breakup email that acknowledges their silence, keeps the door open, and removes pressure by giving them an easy out"_; **Multi thread** — _"Try reaching them through a different channel or contact at the company"_; **Nurture with value** — _"Continue a steady cadence of value-adding follow-ups"_; and **Redirect energy** — _"Move the prospect to a lower-priority nurture track and redirect your energy toward other active opportunities."_ None of those is wrong. They're four defensible sales philosophies, and different teams genuinely want different ones. Pick yours. > Note: This is the difference between a work scenario and a test. There's no answer key — you're recording the approach you want, and candidates are measured against that. ### 6. Swap what you disagree with, add what's missing Each scenario has **Swap** and **Remove** beneath it, and **Add a scenario** opens the library — _"Browse scenarios by category and add one to your assessment"_ — organised by category: Teamwork, Integrity, Prioritization, Policy tension, Ambiguity, Quality standards, Customer conflict, Time pressure, Difficult customer, Resource constraints, Stakeholder conflict, Safety compliance, Safety and Conflicting authority. Swap out a suggestion that doesn't fit your team, and add the situation the draft missed. > Note: A position holds between three and ten scenarios. Removing is blocked once you're down to three. ### 7. Activate, then read the result for what it is Once every scenario shows a selection, take the position live from **Review and activate**. Candidates rank the same four options you saw, and what you get back is stated plainly on the page: _"How closely each candidate's judgment aligns with your preferred approach — scenario by scenario, with an overall alignment score."_ > Note: Alignment is not correctness. A low score means someone would handle the work differently from how you said you wanted it handled — which is worth a conversation, and is sometimes the more interesting answer. Truffle never rejects anyone on an alignment score, and neither should you on its own. ## FAQ **Is this a situational judgement test?** It's the same format — a workplace situation, four plausible responses, ranked. The difference is where the scoring comes from. A traditional situational judgement test scores candidates against an answer key set by the test publisher. Truffle scores them against the approach you selected, so the assessment reflects how your team actually works rather than a generic idea of good judgement. **How many scenarios does a position get?** Truffle suggests a set based on the role, and you can hold between three and ten. The suggested set isn't fixed — running the same role twice can return a slightly different draft, so treat it as a starting point and adjust it rather than expecting an exact number. **What if I disagree with the approach Truffle picked?** Change it. Every scenario arrives with an option pre-selected and tagged AI suggested, but it's just a default. Pick a different option, swap the whole scenario for another from the library, or remove it. The pre-selection exists so you're editing something rather than starting from a blank page. **Can candidates see which answer is right?** There isn't one. All four options are reasonable approaches a competent person might take, which is what stops the assessment from being a knowledge quiz. Candidates rank the options as they'd actually handle it. **Do work scenarios work on their own?** Yes. A position can run a work scenario assessment with no resume screen and no video interview. Most teams pair it with something else, but nothing forces you to. **What does a low alignment score actually mean?** That the candidate would approach the work differently from the way you said you wanted it approached. That's a prompt for a conversation, not a verdict — it's one signal among the resume, the interview and everything else you know. Truffle doesn't auto-reject on it. ## Exact labels in the product These strings are captured from the live product and verified automatically, so they can be quoted directly: `Build position` · `Configure screening` · `Review and activate` · `Work Scenarios` · `Work scenarios` · `Finding the best scenarios` · `AI is analyzing your position to suggest relevant work scenarios.` · `AI suggested` · `All set` · `Add a scenario` · `Browse scenarios by category and add one to your assessment.` · `Swap` · `Remove` · `Each scenario presents a workplace situation with four response options.` · `candidates will rank the same options` · `How closely each candidate's judgment aligns with your preferred approach` · `Key prospect goes silent` · `Graceful exit` · `Multi thread` · `Nurture with value` · `Redirect energy` ## Video How to Add Work Scenarios (Situational Judgement) in Truffle — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0i_G3pnM ## Related - https://www.hiretruffle.com/guides/add-a-personality-assessment - https://www.hiretruffle.com/guides/set-up-a-one-way-video-interview - https://www.hiretruffle.com/guides/screen-resumes-with-ai-criteria - https://www.hiretruffle.com/solution/pre-employment-assessment-software --- Truffle is candidate screening software for small businesses: resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments. AI surfaces evidence; humans decide. Truffle never auto-rejects a candidate. https://www.hiretruffle.com