Cappfinity Results: How to Read Your Strengths Feedback Report

You finish a Cappfinity assessment and, often within minutes or days, an email arrives with a report describing your strengths. It looks like a result, so many candidates read it as one: three strengths sounds good, a "development area" sounds bad, and "moderate" next to a reasoning test sounds worrying.

This guide explains what the report is, what it is not, what candidates see in it, and how it relates to Cappfinity's separate Skills Discovery tool, formerly called Strengths Profile.

The short answer

The Cappfinity feedback report describes your strengths. It is not the outcome of your application. Deloitte and Shoosmiths both say so explicitly. The employer decides separately whether you progress, using results that Cappfinity does not publish, and no pass mark is public.

Who gets a report

Cappfinity's public G-Cloud listing says candidates typically receive a feedback report automatically when they complete any Cappfinity assessment. Employers confirm it:

• Deloitte sends a strengths feedback report with advice on developing your skills after both its online assessment and its job simulation.
• Shoosmiths says you get a report on your strengths and areas to work on at the end of its assessment.
• M&G says the report comes from Cappfinity and covers your strengths and areas for development.
• HSBC says you get developmental feedback by email at each stage.

If yours has not arrived, check your junk folder before contacting the employer.

What the report contains

Cappfinity does not publish a standard layout, and the employer can customise it. Candidates who share their reports describe a similar pattern:

• A few top strengths, each with a short description. Candidates on The Student Room describe three top strengths in FCA reports, with names such as Relationship Builder, Adaptability and Analysis.
• One lower strength or development area, with tips for working on it. "Lowest" here means least strong among the strengths measured, not a failure.
• Bands for reasoning tests, in some reports. Deloitte candidates in 2025 described their numerical and verbal reasoning results shown as low, moderate or proficient.
• Employer-specific names, sometimes. Accenture candidates described strengths such as Customer Champion and Data Interpreter, which suggests employers can define their own strengths.

These are candidate reports, not official descriptions, and reports vary by employer and year.

Why the report is not your result

It is natural to read "top three strengths" as a pass and "development area" as a fail. That is not how employers describe it:

• Deloitte: the report "isn't the outcome of your assessment". The outcome comes separately, within four weeks.
• Shoosmiths: the report does not include the outcome of your application.

What the employer sees is not public. Cappfinity's G-Cloud listing says its analytics include pass, consider and fail data, which suggests employers can sort candidates into bands, but the cut-offs and what goes into them are not published. Your report describes you; the employer's decision compares you with what the role needs and with other applicants.

Is there a good Cappfinity score?

No public one. Cappfinity and the employers we checked publish no pass mark or percentile table. So:

• A "proficient" band on a reasoning test is better than "low", but nobody outside the employer knows the threshold, or how much the reasoning tests weigh against the behavioural part.
• Behavioural strengths have no good or bad answer in themselves. A strength that suits one role may matter less for another.
• Numbers shared online (for example "you need proficient in both") cannot be checked.

How speed affects your result

In most Cappfinity reasoning tests, time counts. Cappfinity's demo says the score combines accuracy with the time you take, and Deloitte and Aviva say the same. The FCA is an exception: its 2024 video says time is not scored in its online assessment. So a slow but accurate performance can come out lower than you expect.

Skills Discovery (formerly Strengths Profile)

Skills Discovery, which until recently was called Strengths Profile, is a Cappfinity product you can take yourself at strengthsprofile.com. It is easy to confuse with the employer report, but it is a separate tool.

• What it measures: performance, energy and use for up to 80 skills. Paid profiles come in 60 and 80 skill versions.
• The four categories: realised strengths (skills you use and enjoy), unrealised strengths (skills you use less but enjoy), learned skills (skills you have learned but may not enjoy) and weaknesses.
• The free version: a Starter profile showing up to 9 skills.
• History: its site says it launched in 2009. Third-party sources trace it to an earlier tool called Realise2.

Is it the same as your employer report? Cappfinity's Preparation Hub treats Strengths Profile as something you can take before an assessment, to understand your strengths, and says those results will never be shared with employers. No official source says whether employer reports use the same list of strengths. Treat them as related but separate: the employer report describes your assessment; Skills Discovery is a self-assessment for your own use.

What to do after you get your report

1. Do not treat it as a rejection or an offer. Wait for the outcome email.
2. Use the strengths in your next stages. If you progress to a video interview or assessment centre, the report gives you language for describing how you work. Prepare a real example for each strength. Our strengths-based interview questions guide shows how.
3. Take the development area seriously, not personally. It is a useful answer to "What are you still working on?"
4. If a band surprises you, think about timing. In time-recorded tests, long pauses can cost you even when your answers are right.
5. Save the report. It is useful for future applications and for your own reflection.

FAQs

Is the Cappfinity feedback report my result?

No. Deloitte and Shoosmiths both say the report is not the outcome of your application. The employer tells you separately whether you progress.

How long does it take to get Cappfinity results?

The feedback report usually arrives automatically, soon after you finish; Deloitte candidates describe receiving it after about two days. The outcome depends on the employer: HSBC says a couple of days, Deloitte within four weeks.

What is a good Cappfinity score?

There is no published pass mark or percentile table. Employers compare your results with what the role needs, and Cappfinity's analytics include pass, consider and fail bands whose cut-offs are not public.

Is Strengths Profile the same as the Cappfinity assessment?

No. Strengths Profile, now called Skills Discovery, is a separate Cappfinity self-assessment of up to 80 skills. Cappfinity's Preparation Hub says its results are never shared with employers.

Can I improve my Cappfinity results?

Cappfinity offers a free demo and Preparation Hub so you can get familiar with the formats before you start. In reasoning tests, work quickly as well as accurately, because time usually counts. For the behavioural part, Cappfinity advises answering honestly rather than trying to guess the right profile. Candidate Falcon's Cappfinity practice has independent simulations of seven parts of the assessment; they are not Cappfinity's tests and practice results are not Cappfinity scores.

Sources

• Cappfinity G-Cloud listing: automatic feedback reports and pass, consider and fail analytics.
• Deloitte UK early careers assessment (read October 2026): the strengths feedback report is not the outcome.
• Shoosmiths: guide to the online strengths-based assessment (2023): report contents and outcome.
• M&G early careers FAQs and HSBC students and graduates FAQs (read October 2026).
• Skills Discovery (formerly Strengths Profile) and its profiles page: skills, categories and versions.
• Cappfinity Preparation Hub: Strengths Profile and FAQs: a Cappfinity product whose results are not shared with employers.
• Candidate reports on The Student Room (FCA 2022, Deloitte 2025 and 2026, Accenture 2025 threads): individual experiences, not official policy.

Candidate Falcon is independent and not affiliated with Cappfinity or any employer named here.