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Hire and develop fairly, under the scrutiny public sector work demands 

Rigid platforms don't fit complex organisational structures or strict procurement rules. Assessio Bloom adapts to yours, with EU-hosted data and validated assessments you can stand behind.

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Built for public accountability

Every process is transparent and defensible, so your talent decisions always stand up to scrutiny.

Decisions that survive challenge

Public hiring gets scrutinised, appealed, and audited. Every Assessio recommendation carries a validated, auditable, and explainable trail.

Objectivity, not opinion

Gut-feel hiring can't survive scrutiny. Assessio replaces it with consistent, defensible criteria, applied the same way to every candidate, every time.

AI with guardrails

AI in HR needs oversight, not blind trust. Assessio is ISO 42001 certified and aligned with the EU AI Act, with AI features you can toggle on or off.

Every person is unique. Your processes should be, too

Shape an approach that fits your organisation and drives tangible results. From high-volume recruitment to leadership assessment, development programmes, and tender-grade compliance, our assessment platform runs in sync with your business.

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Predictive Hiring

Gut feel doesn't scale, whether you're hiring hundreds of employees or one executive. Validated cognitive, personality, motivation, and skills assessments deliver side-by-side comparison and decision support, for job fit and true potential at every level.

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Talent Development

Insights gained during hiring often disappear post-hire. Assessments for personal development, leadership growth, and learning agility keep that picture alive, giving managers a richer view of progress and employees clearer insights into their strengths.

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Assessio Services

Assessio's tools are even more valuable with the right expertise behind them. Our psychologists and specialists can work directly with your data, or train your team to do it on their own, so you get the most from every assessment and decision.

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Why choose Assessio?

Hire the right people and keep them longer

Decrease employee turnover by up to 28%

Use predictive hiring analytics to pinpoint the best fit for each role, saving money and avoiding disruptions.

Avoid costly mis-hires

48% of HR managers admit to bias in hiring

Use our skills, personality, cognitive, and motivation assessments to hire based on facts, not opinions.

Services that support you

Assessio's tools are even more valuable with the right expertise behind them. Our Services team can help you get the most from every assessment and decision.

Streamline your hiring

Spend up to 89% less time interviewing

Screen and prioritise the candidates who genuinely fit the role, so your team can focus more on strategy and growth.

Recruit without limits

Assess candidates in 28+ languages

Test people in the language they know best so you can hire the right person, no matter where they're from.

The City of Utrecht wanted a fairer, more engaging way to select its trainees. Candidates built hyper-personal online presentations combining a game-based assessment and a video pitch, assessed against a role profile built with the city's own managers, so selection rested on talent and fit rather than a CV alone.

Wide reach

over 1,200 people engaged with the selection portal

Fair by design

candidates assessed on a role profile, not a CV

Positive experience

even non-selected candidates leave with self-knowledge and a positive impression

"We get positive reactions, even from candidates who didn't become trainees. They come away with more self-knowledge, assessed by a respected firm, and a good experience of the City of Utrecht."
Jan Willem de Boer, Senior Corporate Recruiter, City of Utrecht

Germany's Federal Employment Agency uses competency-based assessment to gauge the skills of refugees and jobseekers, giving caseworkers an objective basis to support labour-market integration, whatever a person's background or paperwork.

Skills instead of paperwork

competences are measured directly, not inferred from documents

Objective results

a consistent, science-based basis is used for assessment

Postitive social impact

supports labour-market integration at scale

"We know the German labour and training market well, but little is known about the actual skills and competences of refugees. The competence tests help us, as a first step, to enable successful integration into our labour market."
R. Becker, Board, Federal Employment Agency (Germany)

GGD West-Brabant, a regional public-health service, was struggling to meet the needs of its communities. It moved over 300 professionals into self-managing teams, and rebuilt its entire HR approach around proactive leadership, with a shared mission, clear values and tools that let professionals write their own work plans, self-assess, and give each other feedback.

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Self-goverened HR across over 300 professionals

A shared story

with common values gives everyone focus

Ownership

means people write their own work plans, self-assess and give peer feedback

Strong uptake

with 55 of 70 people enthusiastically showing up to the first portfolio pilot review

"They rewrote our job profiles around actual activities. It fitted exactly what we were doing, but we'd never have thought of it ourselves."
Annemieke van der Zijden, Director, GGD West-Brabant

De Toekomst van Brabant runs a two-year traineeship for the public sector, with around fifteen member organisations, from small and large municipalities to the province and a water authority. It rebuilt selection so candidates show who they really are, rather than sending a CV and cover letter, making the process engaging and helping build a cohort that fits together.

Engaging applications

candidates show who they are, beyond their CVs

Development from day one

a "brilliant failure" exercise puts reflection at the centre

Something to take away

every candidate leaves with a personal profile, even if not selected

“What works for us is that we can make personal contact with candidates from the very start."
Iris Bögels, Recruitment & Selection Coordinator

Transvorm, a regional association of around 200 healthcare and welfare employers, needed to move with a fast-changing labour market, from mass job losses to acute shortages. With two shared portals, a career portal and a talent centre, it helps people take charge of their careers and attracts career-changers into the sector, keeping talent within healthcare even when one employer has no fit.

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Sector-wide — one shared approach across around 200 employers

Talent retained

candidates who don't fit one employer are matched to another, keeping people in the sector

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Strong uptake — nearly 5,000 personal profiles created, and growing

"People are genuinely proud when they download their profile page. They look at it and think: yes, this is me!"
Liesbeth Verstegen, Project Lead, Transvorm

Security and compliance without compromise

Assessio is built to withstand the scrutiny of enterprise security reviews and public sector procurement.

ISO and CSA certified

ISO certified, externally audited every year, with role-based access, 2FA, pseudonymisation, and regular penetration tests as standard.

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Psychometric certification

DNV-certified assessments meeting COTAN, DIN 33430, and WCAG standards — backed by an in-house psychometrics team in every market we serve.

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EU/EEA hosting

All personal data is hosted within the EU/EEA, encrypted at rest and in transit, and processed in accordance with GDPR requirements.

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People data you can trust

See why thousands of organisations around the world use Assessio to unlock their full potential.

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From psychometric testing to practitioner experiences, find everything you need to make better talent decisions.

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Articles

Practical thinking on hiring, development, and talent strategy from Assessio's psychometrics and HR experts

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Regular online sessions covering the topics shaping modern HR, with leading industry figures and live Q&As.

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Reports

Data-driven research on the trends defining talent management, drawn from thousands of assessments across Europe.

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Frequently asked questions about Assessio for public sector organisations

Browse our FAQS to find out more.

How does Assessio help meet our requirements for fair and equal treatment of candidates?

Every candidate is measured against the same validated criteria, in the same way, regardless of who reviews the application. Assessments are scientifically validated to minimise bias, and scoring is standardised, so equal treatment isbuilt into the process itself. 

Can we justify our decisions if a candidate appeals or an auditor asks?

Yes, that's a core design principle. Every recommendation is traceable to validated, documented criteria, so you can show exactly how a decision was reached and that every candidate went through an identical process. That documentation holds up in appeals, audits, and freedom-of-information requests alike.

Is Assessio's AI compliant with the EU AI Act?

Assessio is one of the first HR platforms certified to ISO 42001, the leading standard for AI management systems. Our AI is explainable and auditable by design, and all AI capabilities are optional — human judgement always makes the final call. Your legal and procurement reviews can rely on certified, documented governance rather than vendor promises. 

How is candidate and employee data handled?

Assessio is fully GDPR compliant, with data processed and stored within the EU. You retain control over retention periods and data access, and every data point is handled to certified security standards — meeting the obligations public bodies carry as data controllers.

Does Assessio have experience with public sector organisations?

Yes. Public and publicly-owned organisations across Europe — including Schiphol Group, Swedavia, Keolis, and Transdev — use Assessio for objective, defensible talent decisions, from high-volume recruitment to leadership development.