Get the link. Send the link. Get a ranked shortlist.
WorkProbe turns your job description into a 45-minute realistic work simulation. Candidates do the actual work — with documents, AI tools and simulated colleagues. You get them ranked on the skills a CV can’t show.
~80% of CVs are at least partly inflated
reported by recruiters in our interviews
Take-home tests are now done by AI — a polished submission and a faked one look identical
Interview answers can be coached. Live work can’t.
How it works
Send us the job description
We generate a realistic work scenario from it. Ready in one day.
Candidates take the simulation
45 minutes of real work: a task, noisy documents, an AI assistant, simulated colleagues, and a boss with an agenda. Each candidate registers with the email they used to apply — so your shortlist matches your pipeline with zero work on your side.
You get the ranked shortlist
Ranked on four skill dimensions when the role closes. Full per-candidate report — including an interview prep guide — on request.
Your total effort per role: paste one link into the email your ATS already sends, and read the shortlist out. Two touches. Nothing scales with applicant volume.
The shortlist
One screen. Everyone ranked on what actually matters.
Example shortlist — illustrative data. Fictional candidates; WorkProbe holds no applicant data until an employer opens a role.
| Rank | Candidate | Role Skills | AI Collaboration | Critical Verification | Judgment under Uncertainty | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A. Fedorov | Strong | Strong | Strong | Acceptable | Found the root cause in the logs, caught both planted hallucinations, pushed back on the misleading brief with evidence |
2tie | M. Silva | Strong | Strong | Acceptable | Acceptable | Excellent AI workflow; accepted the boss’s framing too quickly but recovered after checking the docs |
2tie | K. Tanaka | Acceptable | Strong | Acceptable | Strong | Correct solution; drew heavily on colleagues, kept the boss updated throughout |
4 | D. Novak | Acceptable | Weak | Acceptable | Acceptable | Independent but slow; ignored two relevant documents, final memo thin |
5 | S. Ivanova | Weak | Poor | WeakRed flag: delivered an unverified wrong AI answer to the boss. Caps Critical Verification at Weak. | Poor | Followed the boss’s wrong steer to the end; delivered an unverified AI answer as fact |
Role Skills
AI Collaboration
Critical Verification
Judgment under Uncertainty
Found the root cause in the logs, caught both planted hallucinations, pushed back on the misleading brief with evidence
Role Skills
AI Collaboration
Critical Verification
Judgment under Uncertainty
Excellent AI workflow; accepted the boss’s framing too quickly but recovered after checking the docs
Role Skills
AI Collaboration
Critical Verification
Judgment under Uncertainty
Correct solution; drew heavily on colleagues, kept the boss updated throughout
Role Skills
AI Collaboration
Critical Verification
Judgment under Uncertainty
Independent but slow; ignored two relevant documents, final memo thin
Role Skills
AI Collaboration
Critical Verification
Judgment under Uncertainty
Followed the boss’s wrong steer to the end; delivered an unverified AI answer as fact
Ordinal grades only — no invented scores or percentages. Ties are shown honestly. We rank; your team decides.
Ranked on the four skills employers say they can’t assess from a CV.
Role Skills
Competence on the actual task of your vacancy, observed in the scenario.
AI Collaboration
Prompt quality and awareness of AI limits. The #1 rising skill in 2026 hiring.
Critical Verification
Separating signal from noise, catching hallucinations, never passing unverified answers upward.
Judgment under Uncertainty
How the candidate acts on incomplete, ambiguous information.
The flagship feature
The report doesn’t just rank the candidate — it preps your interview.
Every employer report includes “What to ask, what to discuss”: 3–5 interview questions anchored to what the candidate actually did in the session — what they checked, what they skipped, where they pushed back, where they followed a wrong steer. A 40-minute session becomes a 10-minute prep sheet. And a stand-in can’t discuss a session they never sat.
What to ask — M. Silva
- 1
You initially accepted the framing that the Android update caused the drop, then reversed after reading the changelog. What changed your mind?
- 2
You asked the AI assistant to verify the retention figures against the raw export. What would you have done if they conflicted?
- 3
You skipped the user-interview file entirely. Walk me through that call.
Illustrative example. Interview questions appear in the employer report only — never in the candidate’s own report.
Impersonation isn’t blocked. It’s made pointless.
- Candidates know upfront: the interview will reference their session in detail. Whoever sits the session had better sit the interview.
- The session link is bound by verified email to the address the candidate applied with.
- Integrity signals — device, timing, paste patterns — are logged from the first session and surface as flags for your interviewer to probe, not verdicts.
- No webcam, no proctoring, no ID upload. Candidates stay human; cheating stays unprofitable.
WorkProbe is cheat-resistant by structure. We do not claim identity verification.
No integration. That’s the feature.
- No IT approval, no security review, no vendor onboarding, no access to your candidate data — we never see your ATS.
- Candidates register with the email they applied with, so the shortlist matches your pipeline by itself.
- Optional: if your ATS stage-email supports merge tags, the link arrives pre-filled per candidate.
- When the role closes, the link deactivates and your shortlist freezes — a deliverable you keep, plus CSV export.
Built so candidates complete it.
Every candidate — advanced or not — leaves holding their own skill report. Something real in exchange for 45 minutes. The stakes of a real vacancy do the rest: this isn’t an abstract test, it’s the application. Consent is explicit: candidates are told upfront their results go to you.
Questions
How fast is setup?
One day from job description to live link. We generate, stress-test and validate the scenario; you paste one link.
Why are some candidates tied?
We use ordinal grades and refuse to invent decimal places the evidence doesn’t support. With small batches, honest grading produces ties. The report shows what distinguishes tied candidates.
Why is there no communication score?
Conversation quality doesn’t reduce honestly to a grade. What the candidate said and did with colleagues and the boss appears as observed evidence in the summary and report — you judge it yourself.
Do you integrate with our ATS?
We deliberately sit beside it, not inside it: one link out, one shortlist back. Nothing to install, nothing to approve.
What does it cost?
One flat fee per role — scenario generation, all candidate sessions, the ranked shortlist and full reports included. First role is priced as a paid pilot. Talk to us.
Run your next shortlist through WorkProbe.
Setup from your job description in one day.