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Language Tests are a type of assessment that aims to measure whether the candidate has sufficient language proficiency required for the job role.

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CEFR compliant
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What Is the Language Test?

The language test is the practice and study of assessing the candidates’ competencies in using a particular language effectively.

The purpose of the language tests is to determine the candidates’ language knowledge, abilities, and to distinguish those candidates from others. In this context, language proficiency tests refer to the tool of collecting information and making judgments about the candidates’ knowledge of a language and their abilities to use it.

What Are the Advantages of Language Tests?

Language proficiency testing helps to recruit people who can communicate effectively in the language you are testing. As language proficiency is so relative among people, objective language proficiency tests in human resources processes are necessary. The person you are going to test might understand the language very well but might not speak well or s/he might speak fluently but might have insufficient grammar knowledge. In this way, you can measure the candidate's language proficiency in the subjects you need.

Why Use Language Test in Assessment Processes?

Recruiters can assess the candidates' current level of language abilities in order to find out if they are suitable for a position. It is important that the language proficiency of the candidate you are planning to recruit is at the level you expect because language competence is often relative.

A language proficiency that seems to be sufficient for the candidate may be below the company's expectations. Therefore, it is necessary to act on concrete data by assessing the candidate, not just with interview notes.

Why Talentate

What Are Talentate Language Tests?

Talentate Language Tests provide insight to recruiters about the language competencies of the candidates with four dimensions; grammar, vocabulary, reading and listening within a certain period of time.
Each question type of Talentate Language Test consists of hundreds of questions. Talentate Language Tests question pool was created through the work of linguistic and other relevant academic units of prestigious universities.

Why Use

Grammar

With the Grammar dimension, the ability of the candidates to use the language and the mastery of spelling rules of the language is measured. Grammar dimension contains hundreds of questions of all difficulty levels.

Listening

Listening is the ability to understand spoken language. Recruiters can test how well the candidates are at understanding complex topics or terminologies depending on the required level of proficiency. Talentate Language Tests also contain hundreds of listening questions under each difficulty level from beginner to proficiency level like all other dimensions.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary is important as it forms the base of a language. They are raw building blocks that can be used to express thoughts and ideas, share information, understand others, and develop personal relationships. With this dimension, candidates' mastery of using the words and richness of vocabulary is measured.

Reading

Questions of the dimension require understanding written text, which can be complex and difficult. Especially for high-level positions, it’s essential to be able to understand written text, such as e-mails, contracts, and articles.

Features

7 Different Languages The Language Tests consist of English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Turkish languages.

CEFR Compliant CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) is an internationally valid scoring criterion that shows how well a person can speak and understand a language. In the Talentate Language Tests, the scoring of the results of the candidates is made and show according to this criterion.

Distribution Graphics The distribution graphics show the percentage distribution of all candidates who took this test according to their scores. There are two dimensions of graphics; company distribution and overall distribution. The company distribution shows the distribution of candidates who are exclusively included in your company, while the overall distribution shows the distribution of all candidates who took this test in the country.

Add Rule Feature If the most important competence of the candidates for a recruitment process is language proficiency and candidates who fall below the expected proficiency will not continue the process, the candidates can be eliminated from the beginning by determining the rule for the assessment set.

Safeguard Against Cheating During the test, photographs and videos of the candidate are taken randomly at regular intervals. This is a precaution against the possibility of the candidates taking the test fraudulently or with assistance.

How to Use?

Complete Your Assessment in 3 Steps!

Assignment Step Candidates' information is entered into the system as name-surname, e-mail and/or telephone. Candidate entries can be loaded in bulk into the system with an Excel file quickly. At this stage, candidates can be assigned to a position in the system if desired.

Testing Step Candidates log into the system via the invitation link, login code or QR code sent by the recruiter and they complete the test within the specified time interval.

Assessment Step Recruiters can view the results as visual and statistical data after the tests are conducted by the candidates. Recruiters can also examine which question was done wrong and which was done right by viewing the questions in person.

Testing Step Candidates log into the system via the invitation link, login code or QR code sent by the recruiter and they complete the test within the specified time interval.

FAQ

What are the different levels of language proficiency?

In the Talentate Language Tests, candidates are graded according to CEFR criteria. The CEFR framework consists of six levels of competence: A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2. This goes from A1, beginner to C2 proficiency level. A1 indicates that the candidate's language proficiency is at a basic level. The C2 level indicates that a candidate can understand and be involved in complex social and business interactions.

What kind of precautions do you have in case the candidate tries to cheat?

The recruiter can optionally set the test as mandatory for candidates to keep the camera on during the test. The camera captures the image of the candidate at random time intervals during the test, through the algorithm created by the Talentate. The algorithm detects if the candidate acts suspiciously during the test. Accordingly, it is considered suspicious if a second person appears on the screen during the test, or if the candidate turns off the camera. While the recruiter screens the test results of the candidates, the candidates who are found suspicious by the algorithm will display the results marked in red.

Which occupational groups and levels are Talentate Language Tests especially targets?

Talentate Language Tests can be applied to all positions that require competence in a language and where candidates' command of the language is to be measured with dimensions of vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar and listening.

How and by whom is the academic infrastructure created?

Talentate Language Test questions are prepared in cooperation with the highly skilled language professionals of the linguistics departments of reputable universities and language academies. These academicians have at least an M.A and many have a Ph.D. Tests are created in accordance with international standards. The question pool is constantly increasing and updated. These prepared test questions are constantly reviewed by experts so that misleading and potentially erroneous questions are avoided.