Cognitive Assessments for High-Impact Roles
Evaluate Critical Thinking.
Understand Business Reasoning. Strengthen Decision-Making.
Cognitive assessments provide valuable insights into how individuals analyze information, solve complex problems, evaluate alternatives, and approach important decisions.
Talent Authority offers a portfolio of assessments supporting hiring, leadership development, and succession planning for high-impact positions at every organizational level. We help organizations identify the assessments most relevant to a position's responsibilities, business challenges, and performance expectations.
Role-Relevant Insight
Assess the cognitive capabilities that matter most for success.
Better Talent Decisions
Add objective, practical data to your selection and development process.
Broad Applications
Support hiring, promotion, succession planning and leadership development.
Our Cognitive Assessment Portfolio
A targeted set of assessments that evaluate business reasoning, critical thinking, abstract reasoning, and decision-making tendencies
BUSINESS REASONING
Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory (HBRI)
Measures business reasoning and problem solving capabilities, including the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative information.
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Roles requiring business acumen
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Financial and operational analysis
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Evaluating opportunities and risks
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Making analytically sound decisions
CRITICAL THINKING
Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal
Measures critical thinking capabilities, including recognizing assumptions, evaluating arguments, interpreting information, and drawing logical conclusions.
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Roles that require sound judgment
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Evaluating competing alternatives
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Challenging assumptions and conventional thinking
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Making complex, consequential decisions
ABSTRACT REASONING
Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM-III)
Measure abstract reasoning, pattern recognition, and the ability to solve unfamiliar problems.
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Roles facing new or complex challenges
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Positions requiring high-level problem solving
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Environments with ambiguity and change
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Growth, transformation, and innovation
DECISION-MAKING STYLE
Hogan Judgment
Measures decision-making tendencies, information processing, responses to feedback, and learning from experience.
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Leadership and professional development
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Strengthening decision quality
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Identifying potential decision-making risks
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Building adaptability and learning agility
Critical Thinking and Decision-Making in an AI-Enabled Workplace
Artificial intelligence is changing how professionals analyze information, solve problems, and make decisions. While AI can generate insights, evaluate alternatives, and support complex tasks, individuals remain responsible for questioning assumptions, interpreting results, and exercising sound judgment.
For positions where decisions have significant business consequences, understanding an individual's underlying reasoning and critical thinking capabilities remains important. These capabilities can help professionals evaluate AI-generated recommendations, recognize potential errors, and determine appropriate courses of action.
Talent Authority's cognitive assessment solutions provide additional insight into these foundational capabilities, supporting more informed hiring and development decisions in an increasingly AI-enabled workplace.
An Integrated, Job-Relevant Approach
Cognitive assessments are most valuable when aligned to the requirements of the role and used alongside personality assessments (Position Insights), structured interviews, and other job-related evidence. We'll help you select the right combination based on the position's responsibilities, complexity, and performance expectations.
