Career Potential Test (CPT)
Discover your Highest Potential Candidates
100% free for employers and candidates. Implement into your hiring process in under 5 minutes.
Simply direct candidates to the career potential test page to take the CPT online, then have them submit the link to you with their shareable results. This allows high-potential candidates to be discovered by employers and allows employers to hire the best candidates possible.
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How It Works
Where do I start?
Try the free course: Sign up and start one of our free introduction courses. You will learn all about what the career entails, the current job market, how to break in, and whether you would be a good fit.
Where do I go next?
Learn new skills: Once you've decided on a career path, it’s time to join our community! Enroll in one of our online self-paced courses to begin learning. We will teach you all the skills required to land your first position, and you'll have access to free workshops and affordable 1:1 coaching with industry professionals.
Where do I end up?
Start your career: We teach you exactly how to land an entry-level position, giving you insider knowledge to help you set up your LinkedIn profile and resume, apply to companies the right way, and prepare for interviews like a pro.
What's included in the test
The CPT was built to test the most valuable skills required to succeed across all ocupations. All the questions on our test are built to test for skills that affect real job performance. There are four sections to the CPT.
Critical Thinking
Reading
Writing
Math
Why it works
There are more high-potential people not going to college. This makes it hard to identify them in a stack of resumes with no signals to go on, similar to finding a needle in a haystack.
Most learning happens outside the classroom. The CPT measures foundational skills regardless of how or where they were developed.
Evaluate every candidate’s raw potential and foundational skills against a consistent, standardized rubric to help minimize bias in the hiring process.
How to implement the test into your hiring process
There are two main ways employers can implement this test into their hiring process.
Option 1
List the CPT as an optional qualification on your job postings to help stand out as a qualified candidate. This gives you the benefit of allowing high-potential candidates to stand out that you otherwise would miss, without the friction of requiring everyone to take the test.
Here are some example bullet points you can use:
- Candidates much have one of the following: bachelor's degree, 1+ year of relevant work experience, or an 80%+ on the CPT is required.
- Bachelor’s degree or 1+ year of relevant work experience required. An 80%+ CPT score may be submitted in lieu of relevant experience.
- 1+ year of relevant experience preferred. Taking the online CPT and submitting the link to your score can be used in lieu of relevant experience.
Option 2
Require every job applicant to complete the CPT before moving to a phone screen. That way, you evaluate everyone on the same baseline and compare raw potential objectively. The tradeoff is extra friction upfront in your hiring funnel.
You can do this by sending an automated email through your ATS directing all new applicants to take the CPT and reply back/submit the link to their results as part of the next step in your interview process.
FAQs
Q: Do I need to go to trade school before applying for an electrician apprenticeship
No. Trade school is not required to apply for or enter an electrical apprenticeship. Most programs evaluate applicants based on a math aptitude test, a basic interview, and demonstrated interest in the trade. Apprenticeships provide paid, on-the-job training from day one. Pre-apprenticeship training like the CourseCareers Electrician Course helps candidates build foundational knowledge before applying, which can strengthen their interview performance without the cost or time commitment of trade school