cut-e's New Communications Game
cut-e has launched a new customizable, psychometric communications game: chatAssess.
This powerful situational judgment tool adopts the instant messaging style of WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger to assess a candidate’s strengths, personality characteristics and abilities. chatAssess can be customized to suit any role, at any level, in any organization. The 6 – 15 minute assessment was developed for use in early screening and attraction stages of graduate and apprentice recruitment. chatAssess has been designed for use with smartphones as well as working easily on tablets, laptops and desktop devices.
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chatAssess, the world’s first instant messaging simulation game
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cut-e launches the world’s first instant messaging simulation game for more engaging recruitment
chatAssess - Product details
What does this assessment measure?
Behavior, personality and ability in client specific work-based scenario and using mobile, interactive technology and simulating real-time instant-messaging.
What is the task?
The test taker is presented with incoming real-life work messages from different people and responds by selecting from one of the answer options given. Based on the test taker response, subsequent questions or situations are presented. The test uses a simulated instant-messaging format and making for a more realistic and enjoyable presentation than traditional situational judgement tests.
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Rolls-Royce about chatAssess
"At Rolls-Royce, we strive for candidate-centric, innovative recruitment. chatAssess allows us to engage our candidates in an realistic and easy to use format. This helps us create a wonderful user experience for our applicants, as well as providing us with robust assessments and process efficiencies for our HR team."
What Makes chatAssess Different?

The assessment resembles popular messenger services used on smartphones, making it attractive, engaging and realistic to candidates. They receive incoming instant messages from ‘colleagues’ with specific questions or requests for advice. In real time, the candidate is asked to select a text message response from a number of predefined replies. chatAssess reacts to each response and sends back a further message from the same ‘colleague’. Different ‘colleagues’ will often face different issues or challenges and the candidate must prioritize the tasks and manage all commitments to colleagues and do this under pressure. From a user-experience perspective, chatAssess appeals to millennials and early career candidates by providing a conversational interaction in a familiar format.
Why Has cut-e Introduced chatAssess?
In many Situational Judgement Tests (SJT), the situations presented lack a sense of reality for the candidates and this can impact user acceptance and compromise test validity. Furthermore, the responses proposed may not feel instinctive for the candidates and sometimes they can be confused about whether to answer ‘what they would do’ or ‘what they think is the right thing to do’. With this in mind, cut-e set out to create a new, valid and immersive SJT that would be both realistic and fun to complete.
Completion Rates at Rolls Royce

Leading employers compete to recruit top graduates, interns and apprentices, and candidates often undertake multiple similar assessments, leading to disengagement and high drop out rates. Rolls-Royce wanted a differentiator, a short assessment that would not only identify the most talented and high potential candidates but would also support its diversity and inclusion agenda.
cut-e saw an opportunity to integrate a user-friendly mobile solution that would be radically different to the traditional situational judgement questionnaires (SJQs) that are typically used by other employers. In addition to selecting a number of modular assessment tools for Rolls-Royce, cut-e created chatAssess – an instant messaging simulation game which hosts dynamic SJQs in both a familiar format and a job-relevant context.