Making confident talent decisions while the list of candidates keeps growing is hard to balance, but the tradeoff shouldn't be sacrificing quality for speed. We heard that. Starting today, Wonderlic Select looks and works differently, with eight updates across the platform designed to get you to the right people faster, give you clearer job-specific signals before you decide, and cut out the friction that slows the whole process down. Four are live now. Four more are rolling out soon.
"Hiring teams shouldn't have to fight their tools to make good and confident decisions. Every change we made to Wonderlic Select started with one question: does this help HR and the hiring manager see what they need, when they need it? This is one of the most significant steps forward we've taken in the Select experience, and it's only the beginning."
— Justin Corcoran, VP of Product, Wonderlic
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What's live in Wonderlic Select
Each update targets a specific point in the hiring process where critical insights are needed to make better decisions. Together, they reduce administrative friction, improve visibility into candidate fit, and help teams stay focused on who is most likely to succeed in the job.
UPDATE 01 | New Openings Dashboard
Everything you need, in one place
Your job openings now live on the dashboard in one centralized table. No more switching between pages or navigating away to take action. Click directly into any opening's detail view, follow or unfollow openings to stay on top of activity, and filter by status, hiring manager, location, and more. Choose which columns to display, view more than 10 openings at once, and see candidate volume and scoring at a glance. Fewer steps, everything in one place.
Why it matters:
The time you spend navigating the platform is time you're not spending on the candidates themselves.
You shouldn't have to remember which tab a candidate lives under. Type a name or a job title and Select now shows you both, candidates and job openings together, in real time, as you type. One click and you're in. No extra navigation, no retracing your steps.
Why it matters:
When you’re managing multiple openings across teams, the ability to find any candidate or job instantly means you stay focused on the work that matters most.
You've always been able to see how a candidate scored. What's been harder is understanding exactly what that score is measuring. Now you can. Each scoring profile includes a clear job summary so you can quickly confirm how the job is defined, and shows how specific job tasks connect to each key indicator so you know what each one actually means in the context of the job.
Add your job description and Select generates an AI summary that makes the connection between what the job requires and how candidates are being evaluated even clearer. This doesn't change how scoring works. The same assessment science continues to drive results exactly as it always has. What's new is the context around those results, so you can evaluate the job-specific insights with the full picture of the job in front of you and feel confident in what the score is telling you.
Note:
This change only applies to Jobs Engine Scoring Profiles of new job openings added moving forward (not retroactive).
Why it matters:
Knowing how a job is scored, and why, before results arrive means you're evaluating candidates with full context, not catching up after the fact.
The signals that actually predict success in this job used to be buried. Now they're the first thing you see. The improved results view puts the five key indicators most predictive of success right at the top of every candidate’s results page, ordered by their impact on the overall score and clearly labeled so you know what you're looking at. The detail is still there if you want to go deeper. But you no longer have to wade through everything to get to the answer.
Why it matters:
When the signals most predictive of success in this job are the first thing you see, you spend less time sifting and more time making decisions you can stand behind.
These four updates are in the final stages and will be available soon. Here's what to expect.
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UPDATE 05 | Redesigned Candidate List
A candidate list built around who to look at first
Right now, a full applicant pool requires real effort to make sense of, especially when some candidates have completed assessments and some haven't. The redesigned candidate list changes that. It surfaces a single overall fit score for each person based on what actually drives performance in the job, puts candidates with completed assessments at the top automatically, and makes bulk sorting and status updates faster. You go from a broad pool to a focused shortlist without having to do the work manually.
Why it matters:
Time spent on the wrong candidates is time you're not spending on the right ones.
Comparing candidate finalists has always been a powerful feature in Select. The improved compare view makes it even better. Candidates now appear on one screen with attributes shown in the same order and format as the individual results view. Job-specific attributes make it easy to spot strengths and gaps in the areas that actually matter for the job. And it's one click away from the candidate list.
Why it matters:
Other tools let you see two candidates at once. This one helps you compare them on the job-specific characteristics that actually predict success.
If you've ever had to dig through a candidate's results page to figure out whether they've started their assessment, whether the link expired, or whether you need to resend, you already know the problem. One location now shows you a full timeline of every candidate's testing activity, surfaces the right next action based on where they stand, and lets you send, resend, or arrange onsite testing from a single view.
Why it matters:
No more guessing where a candidate is in the process or switching between screens to take action.
The same assessments for every candidate in a job, every time
Every candidate for the same job should complete the same set of assessments. The new standardized assessment setup makes that the default. Whether they apply by email, via the Quick Apply link, or onsite, each candidate completes the same set. Comparisons are cleaner, and decisions are easier to make.
Why it matters:
Consistent assessments mean you’re comparing candidates on equal footing. And when every candidate in a role completes the same set regardless of how they applied, the hiring process itself becomes more defensible.
The four updates available today are live for every Wonderlic Select customer, no setup, no action required. Visit the New at Wonderlic section in our knowledge base to see everything that changed, with step-by-step guidance for each update. Questions? Our support team is available in the product via chat.
Wonderlic helps hiring teams and talent leaders put the right people in the right jobs, reduce turnover, and build teams that perform and stay. Through Wonderlic Select and Wonderlic Develop, organizations get job-specific insights into cognitive ability, personality, and motivation, the factors that predict whether someone is more likely to excel in the job, not just interview well. Trusted by thousands of companies across all industries. Learn more at wonderlic.com/select.
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