Criteria Corp

Criteria

Composite Score

7.7 /10

CX Score

8.1 /10

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What is Criteria?

Make more informed talent decisions with Criteria’s robust assessment platform. You’ll have access to our entire portfolio of assessments, including aptitude, personality, risk, skills, and emotional intelligence tests. Gain insight into your candidates with easy-to-read score reports and analytics. Plus, you can manage your full candidate pipeline directly in the platform, including customizable candidate communication and helpful automation features. The platform can also help you better manage, understand, and develop your current team members with Talent Insights.

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Awards & Recognition

Criteria won the following awards in the Pre-Employment Testing category

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2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2026

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2026

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025

1 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2024

Criteria Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Criteria?

0% Negative

12% Neutral

88% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Candidate Matching

100

Analytics and Reporting

Assessment Test Templates

Dashboard

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Mobile

Scoring & Results Processing

Candidate Assessment Delivery

Online Cloud Platform

Test Customization

3rd Party Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Criteria Downloads

Criteria-DefinitiveGuidetoStructuredInterviewing Download

Criteria Videos

Criteria Reviews

Lynette K.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Chemicals
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2024

Easy to use, but I wish it was easier to integrate

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Criteria from other similar products?

Great assessments

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The customization

What do you dislike most about this product?

it's hard to integrate with certain other products.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Do it! it's a great program to help find quality candidates.

Pros

Trustworthy
Client Friendly Policies
Fair
Acts with Integrity

Mythrayee K.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2024

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Cassandra S.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Transportation
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2025

Criteria has made an impact in our organization-

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Criteria from other similar products?

Criteria allows multiple specific centered solutions to my business needs.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect is accuracy.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The one thing that I dislike is not allowing the option to restart testing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

My recommendation for someone considering Criteria is to give it a try! I don't you would be able to find a better product to help with your hiring needs-

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

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What is Criteria?

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

Criteria Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

77 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Criteria?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Candidate Matching View applicants that are best-fit to the required skills and experience via AI-driven Candidate Match.

Analytics and Reporting Intelligent, configurable reporting allows managers to easily track and manage candidates entering the sourcing funnel to save time, money and effort.

Assessment Test Templates Utilize pre-built and configurable assessments to test potential candidates on a number of different areas including skills and cultural fit.

Dashboard Includes alerts and notifications, KPIs, visual analytics, and interactive features.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Use of AI/ML to identify high performers, good cultural fits, etc.

Mobile Ability to support multiple devices, OSes and platforms using mobile optimized, HTML-based web access and/or native applications.

Scoring & Results Processing Automated scoring, normalization, benchmarking, and result calculation of candidate assessments e.g. pass/fail, percentile ranking, job fit indicators etc.

Candidate Assessment Delivery Ability to securely distribute tests and invitations to candidates via links, email, ATS triggers, or portals and manage assessment sessions.

Online Cloud Platform Works as a SaaS solution natively on the cloud.

Test Customization Customization of tests to the competencies or skills specific to the user's organization.

3rd Party Integration Integrates with 3rd party applications such as ATS, HRIS, or LMS.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Criteria Downloads

Criteria-DefinitiveGuidetoStructuredInterviewing

Criteria-Research-2023BenchmarkReport

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Criteria Videos

Criteria: Who We Are

The Resume Problem | Talent Talk with Josh Millet

Skills-Based Hiring: Beyond the Basics | Talent Talk with Josh Millet

More Than My Resume | Stephen & Josh

Criteria Reviews

Lynette K.

Easy to use, but I wish it was easier to integrate

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mythrayee K.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cassandra S.

Criteria has made an impact in our organization-

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Feature Ratings

Candidate Matching

Analytics and Reporting

Assessment Test Templates

Dashboard

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Mobile

Scoring & Results Processing

Candidate Assessment Delivery

Online Cloud Platform

Test Customization

3rd Party Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization