Explore free Candidate Falcon guides to understand common one-way video interview and game-based assessment formats, prepare your answers and setup, and decide when you are ready for interactive practice.
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Understand the recording process, prepare structured answers, and check your camera, microphone, and environment before moving into practice. For a practical checklist across providers, read our one-way video interview tips.
One-way / on-demand video interview
Understand the HireVue recording format, prepare structured answers, check your setup, and work through a free interactive preparation course.
Resource type: Free preparation guide + interactive course
View HireVue guide
One-way video interview
Learn the Spark Hire one-way interview flow, what to check before recording, how to structure answers, and how to prepare with the free course.
Resource type: Free preparation guide + interactive course
View Spark Hire guide
Pre-recorded / one-way video interview
Prepare for structured VidCruiter interviews with guidance on the recording flow, evidence-based answers, setup, and a free interactive course.
Resource type: Free preparation guide + interactive course
View VidCruiter guide
Automated / asynchronous video interview
Use six Talview-specific lessons to check assessment formats and devices, build truthful answers, rehearse recordings, and handle technical issues.
Resource type: Free preparation guide + interactive course
Start Talview courseExplore documented HireVue game formats, the Arctic Shores task-based assessment, the Cappfinity assessment, the Plum Discovery Survey, the Harver assessment, the pymetrics games and the UK Civil Service online tests: what candidates can expect, and practical preparation guidance.
Game-based assessments
Learn what HireVue games are, what documented game types can appear, how scoring and timing work, and how to prepare without relying on guesswork.
Resource type: Free guide library
Explore HireVue game guides
Task-based assessment
Learn what the Arctic Shores assessment involves, which tasks candidates report, how results and adjustments work, and how to prepare without guesswork.
Resource type: Free guide + task-by-task guides
Explore the Arctic Shores guide
Strengths, numerical and video stages
Learn what the Cappfinity assessment involves, how the situational strengths and numerical tests work, what employers such as Deloitte, HSBC and the FCA ask for, and how to prepare.
Resource type: Free guide + module guides
Explore the Cappfinity guideDiscovery Survey: preferences, puzzles and scenarios
Learn what the Plum Discovery Survey involves, how its five sections and problem-solving puzzles work, which parts have right answers, and how to prepare.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Plum guideCognitive, typing, chat, language and pymetrics games
Learn what the Harver assessment involves for contact-centre and other jobs: the cognitive subtests, situational judgement, typing test, live chat simulation, spoken English test and pymetrics games.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Harver guide12 behaviour games plus 4 reasoning games
Learn what the pymetrics test involves: the 12 games and what each one measures, the extra reasoning games, timing, results and trait reports, retakes and how to prepare.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the pymetrics guideVerbal, numerical, judgement, strengths and casework tests
Learn what each of the 8 UK Civil Service online tests involves, which parts are timed, how percentile scores, pass marks and banked results work, and how to prepare.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Civil Service guideSuccess Profiles behaviours for applications and interviews
Learn what each of the 9 Civil Service Behaviours asks for at your grade, with example questions, two STAR answers, the 1 to 7 scoring scale and how to prepare.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Behaviours guideBehaviour, strength and motivation questions
See example UK Civil Service interview questions of every type, from behaviour and strength questions to situational and technical ones, with how to answer each and how panels score them.
Resource type: Free guide
See the interview questionsHow to write it, with a full example
Learn how to write a UK Civil Service personal statement: what the sift scores, a structure by criterion, a full example for an Executive Officer role and the official rules on using AI.
Resource type: Free guide
Read the guideAA to SCS: roles, pay and tests
Learn the 7 UK Civil Service grades from AA to the Senior Civil Service, with what each role does, average starting salaries, entry routes and which online tests apply at each grade.
Resource type: Free guide
See the gradesApplying to medicine, nursing, business or engineering programs? Learn how the Casper test and Kira Talent interviews work, how they are scored and how to prepare.
Admissions situational judgment test: video and typed scenarios
Learn how the Casper test works in 2026–27: 4 video and 7 typed scenarios, the timing, the nine skills, how human raters score you and what your quartile means.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Casper guideUS and Canada school list for the 2026–27 cycle
See every US and Canadian medical school that requires Casper in 2026–27, from Acuity’s own list, with each school’s deadline, the test type to book and the fees.
Resource type: Free guide
See the school list10 practice scenarios with answer tips
Practise with 10 original Casper-style scenarios in the 2026–27 format, each with two questions, the skills it draws on, what a stronger answer covers and two example typed answers.
Resource type: Free guide
See the examplesAdmissions interview: timed video and written questions
Learn how Kira Talent interviews work: video and written questions, preparation and response timers, formats at McMaster, Queen's and Waterloo, retakes and preparation.
Resource type: Free guide
Explore the Kira guideUnderstand how the interview or assessment works and what to expect.
Use free checklists, examples, answer frameworks, and guidance.
When ready, try timed Candidate Falcon simulations and feedback.
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