Overview
HackerRank for Work generates Tests based on the selected role. For roles created by HackerRank, recruiters can easily generate Tests by including skill-mapped questions from the HackerRank Library.
You can refer to this article to learn more about Roles and Skills.
You can follow the below steps to learn more about how you can create a role-specific test from your HackerRank for Work account.
Create a Test from the Test Dashboard
Follow the below steps to create a Test on a specific role.
- On the Test tab, click on the Create Test button.
- The test creation wizard that opens allows you to select a particular role you want to generate the test.
- You can either type the role you are looking for in the search bar or scroll down and select it from the list.
- Once you select the required role, the skills associated with that role get displayed below it. Click on the Create Test button to create a test based on the selected role.
- On clicking Create Test, a new test is generated, and the skill sections lists the mapped skills and questions under them. These Questions are relevant to the skills mapped to the selected role.
- On the test page, you can access the details such as selected role, core skills mapped to that role and other relevant skills. You can click on the + icon beside the relevant skills to add them to your assessment.
Adding a New Skill Section
- Click on Add New+ and select from the available options:
- Add Skill Based Questions: Add questions curated by HackerRank mapped to each skill.
- Add Manually: Add questions from HackerRank or My Company library.
- If you select Add Skill Based Questions you will be asked to choose the skills.
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There are two types of skill bundles:
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Basic Skill Bundles:
- These are standard skill bundles. The questions in these bundles are mapped to specific skills. These bundles are not protected from leakage. In case of a question leak you have to manually change that question within the test.
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Leak Protected Skill Bundles: You can identify one with
- The questions in these skill bundles are safeguarded against leakage
- HackerRank manages these skill bundles exclusively. If any questions from these bundles are leaked, HackerRank replaces the compromised questions with new ones.
- Leak protected skill bundles are highlighted with the safeguard icon as shown below.
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Basic Skill Bundles:
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The skills are differentiated at three levels:
- Basic: Consists of questions with easy difficulty.
- Intermediate: Consists of questions with medium difficulty.
- Advanced: Consists of questions with Hard difficulty.
- Next, you can choose the Question Type, such as Coding, MCQ, or Project.
- After selecting the desired Skill and Question type, click the add to the test. You can view that your selected skill is now present in your test as a new section.
Adding Questions Manually
- Select the Add Manually option after clicking on Add New+.
- Select Add From Library or Create Question option.
- When you select Add From Library you will be taken to the HackerRank library where you can select the desired question using the available filtering options. Click on the plus icon to add the question. Selected questions will appear on the left pane of the screen.
- Once done you can click on Go Back to Test to proceed with the test. Selected questions are added as a section.
Skill Section Settings
- Hover over the skill section and click on the settings icon
- Within the skill section settings you can change its name, select the number of questions for it and change the time limit to answer that section.
- From the Advanced Settings you can:
- Control if you want the candidates to see the sections. When disabled candidates will only see the questions within a test.
- Enable or disable the sections to be shuffled for the candidates.
- Allow or disallow the candidates to revisit previous sections once answered.
- Allow the candidates to use the duration left in previous sections for the upcoming sections.
Note: You must add duration to each section to enable the above three settings.
Removing a Section
Hover your cursor over the skill you want to remove and click the delete icon. This will remove that skill section you chose.
Once done you can Publish the test and start inviting the candidates.
Create a Test from the Roles Management
You can also create a Test specific to a Role from the Roles Dashboard.
- Log in to your HackerRank for Work account and click on the Roles Management option from the top-right menu.
- The Roles Management page lists all the roles available on the HackerRank for Work platform.
- You can use the search option to search for the specific role for which you want to create the test. The skills that are mapped to the specific Role are displayed below the Role.
- Click on the horizontal ellipsis beside the role and click on the Create Test option.
- Remember that you can create a test only from published roles.
- The test creation window pops up with the specific Role automatically selected from the dropdown on clicking the Create Test button.
- Follow the same workflow as mentioned above to create a test based on the selected role.