How to add work scenario questions to a job
To add work scenarios in Truffle, describe the situations the job involves, keep Assessments on with Work Scenarios chosen, and pick the approach you want for each scenario Truffle drafts. Candidates rank four responses per scenario, and each ranking is compared with your pick and labelled from Aligned to Opposite.
Key takeaways
- Work scenarios is Truffle's situational judgment test: a situation from the job, four plausible responses, ranked by the candidate.
- Truffle drafts the scenarios from your description, six for the sales role in this video, so name the hard moments the job involves. A position holds up to 10.
- You pick one approach per scenario, the one you want your team to use. Truffle suggests a starting pick, tagged AI suggested. Change it, swap the scenario from the library, or remove it.
- Candidates see the option text only, never the approach names or your pick.
- Each scenario is labelled by where the candidate ranked your pick: first is Aligned, second Close, third Different and last Opposite. The result is one input to your decision and rejects no one.
- Assessments cost 2 credits per candidate, charged when a candidate completes them.
Add work scenarios to a position in Truffle, so you can see how candidates would handle real situations from the job.
You describe the hard moments in the role. Truffle drafts scenarios from them, each with four possible responses, and you pick the one you would want. Candidates rank all four. Their ranking is compared with your pick, scenario by scenario, and labelled from Aligned to Opposite, next to everything else you know about them.
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Here’s how to add work scenarios to a position, so you can see how candidates would handle real situations from the job. Start a new position, and describe the situations the job involves, like prospects who go quiet, or push back on price. On Build position, keep Assessments on, and choose Work Scenarios. Truffle drafts scenarios for the role, like a key prospect going silent. Open one. There are four responses, and you pick the one you’d want. Your pick is what candidates are compared against. Truffle suggests a starting pick. Change it if your team would do it differently. Or swap a scenario for another from the library. Then review, and activate. Each candidate’s ranking is compared with your picks, scenario by scenario, and labelled, from Aligned to Opposite. It sits next to everything else you know about them, and the call is yours. Start free at hiretruffle.com.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this a situational judgment test?
- Yes. Work scenarios is the product's name for Truffle's situational judgment test: a work situation, four plausible responses, ranked by the candidate. Truffle compares each candidate's ranking with the approach you picked, so the result shows alignment with how your team handles the work. It is Truffle's own question set, not a validated psychometric instrument.
- Do I rank all four responses?
- No. You pick one approach per scenario, the one you want your team to use. Candidates rank all four, and the result shows where they put your pick.
- Can candidates see which answer you prefer?
- No. Candidates see the situation and the four options, without the approach names or your pick. The intro tells them there is no perfect answer and no trick questions.
- Does a low alignment result reject candidates?
- No. The result shows how a candidate's ranking compares with the approaches you picked, scenario by scenario. It rejects no one. The only automatic rejection in Truffle is a qualification check you set to Reject automatically.
- What does it cost, and how long does it take candidates?
- Assessments cost 2 credits per candidate, charged when a candidate completes them, so someone who never starts costs nothing. Build position lists Work Scenarios at 6 minutes, and with six scenarios candidates were told about 7 minutes.
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