Can you fail a Cappfinity assessment?

Cappfinity looks at each skill on three measures: performance (how well you do it), energy (how motivated you feel doing it) and use (how often you do it). A skill you do well, use regularly and enjoy is what Cappfinity calls a strength.¹

Depending on the role, it may measure behavioral skills such as collaboration and adaptability, cognitive skills such as working with numbers, patterns and written arguments, and technical skills such as Excel. The scores for capability and motivation are combined into a holistic decision about which candidates are most likely to succeed.¹ So there is no single "right" answer to a strengths question, but there is a profile the employer is looking for.

Cappfinity also says doing well in its assessments predicts doing well in the job.¹ That is exactly why employers act on the result: a low match is a reason to stop, not just a data point.

Reasoning sections are the most test-like part. Cappfinity typically assesses critical, numerical, verbal and diagrammatic reasoning, and some of these are time-recorded, meaning the time you take may count toward your score. The instructions tell you when that applies, and Cappfinity's advice is to work as quickly and accurately as possible.¹

Behavioral questions are not timed, apart from video and written responses. Cappfinity asks you to read each scenario and option carefully, answer the way you would naturally behave, and not try to guess what the employer wants to hear.¹ Trying to game a strengths test usually produces an inconsistent profile, which is its own kind of fail.

Some assessments also set a time limit for the whole assessment or for each question, and the instructions say so before you start.¹ Read that screen properly; it is the one place the rules are spelled out.

Cappfinity has a US base in Houston and teams in the UK, the US and Australia.^3,4 Its clearest US example is Credera, a consulting firm that hires interns and graduates across the US: from its fall 2023 early careers campaign, applicants were invited after the initial application to a bespoke Cappfinity assessment built from real Credera work scenarios, and Credera says it can now identify high performers without adding an interview.² In other words, the assessment is the screen.

Among the US firms Intervyo covers, Latham & Watkins uses Cappfinity differently. Its US students page points law students to an interview preparation site, and that site is run by Cappfinity, which holds the data and sends feedback. It is practice for Latham's process, not a scored step in it.^5,6

If your summer 2028 invite comes from Cappfinity, read it for which parts you face and whether any are timed. That one email tells you more than any general guide.