Why do companies like yours choose Vervoe over SHL?

Vervoe is a Skills Assessment Platform that tests candidates on realistic, in-context job tasks rather than recall-based quiz questions, so you can see how someone actually performs before you interview them. You can customize the questions, the correct answers and the AI grading criteria, start from 300+ role-based templates designed by I/O psychologists, and brand the candidate experience as your own. Use the comparison table on this page to see how the two platforms line up, and check SHL's current documentation too, as features change over time.

Vervoe uses job simulations and skills assessments built around the real tasks of a role. Candidates can record video and audio responses, write code in 8 languages, work in embedded native Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint or Google Sheets, upload documents, or answer media-based multiple-choice questions. Responses are scored automatically, so you can assess candidates at volume and rank them by demonstrated performance rather than by their résumé.

Vervoe's AI scores and ranks candidates on how they perform on each task. You set the grading criteria and can train the model on what a strong answer looks like for your organization, and each score is traceable to the evidence in the candidate's response through their report card. Vervoe's AI is independently bias audited by Holistic AI under NYC Local Law 144, and the published results are available on our AI bias audit results page.

Vervoe takes a layered approach: question randomization, geolocation detection that flags assessments completed from multiple incompatible locations, machine learning plagiarism detection that checks answers against other candidates, AI and web sources, and immersive job simulation tasks that are much harder to game than text-only questions. These measures are designed to protect the integrity of your results without intruding on candidate privacy.

Vervoe integrates with Greenhouse, SmartRecruiters, PageUp, Workday and SuccessFactors, connects through Zapier and Tray.io, and offers an open API for custom workflows. Vervoe is ISO/IEC 27001 compliant and GDPR compliant, with regional data storage and priority SLAs available for enterprise customers.