Easy
hard skill
assessments

Trying to evaluate digital skills during hiring is harder than ever. Resumé inflation. AI-fabricated cover letters. Outsourced portfolios. Social media humblebragging. You name it. It’s trickier by the day to distinguish skill from con.

How can you know whether candidates — consultants, freelancers or employees — can do the job you’re hiring them for?

Use Gatekeeper to assess digital hard skills and competences quickly and affordably

Gatekeeper's standardized assessments are hand-crafted by experts to quickly determine whether a candidate has the problem-solving competences for the role you're hiring them for.

They're also easy to order, affordable and quick to complete.

This allows you to compare candidates early in the hiring process and quickly eliminate those who aren't up to the task.

Why Gatekeeper?
No recurring payments or SaaS — create an account for free and pay per assessment
Frequent assessment updates — no answers circulating on the web
Privacy-first invitation — no personal info needed
Completely digital assessment with robust anti-cheating features
Technology and platform agnostic
No need for in-house expertise to interpret assessment results
How Gatekeeper works
For a Data Engineer
Certification exams ask
What is Apache Spark?
Which product does not use the SQL-92 standard?
Which clause can not be used within a window function?
Test relevance
Talent assessment companies ask
Role-play as a data engineer that stands in for a colleague that has caught the flu and needs to pitch a new componend for the data stack to senior management. You have 15 minutes to prepare.
Test relevance
Gatekeeper asks
In which of the following organisations would you not introduce Apache Spark?
The sales team needs their monthly cumulative sales figures. Which of the following solutions will produce the answer to this request?
Which tool would not allow you to transform in-flight data?
Test relevance
How to use Gatekeeper?
Create an
account
Order an
assessment
Invite a
candidate
Get your
results
Get started today
Pricing

Simple, easy pricing: pay per assessment, no up-front or recurring costs.

Junior-level
Assessments
€ 50
per assessment
€ 100 if you never want anyone else to see the assessment results
Senior-level
Assessments
€ 75
per assessment
€ 150 if you never want anyone else to see the assessment results
FAQ
  • Which assessments do you offer?

    Currently, we offer assessments in digital marketing, data and analytics. These are roles that are highly typical, but often reside within business teams. Consequently, they are typically filled by consultants, agencies and freelancers. If you got an idea for an assessment, slide a message into info@gatekeeper.digital.

  • Do I have to pay to have an account?

    Creating an account with Gatekeeper is entirely free. We don't do subscriptions. As a matter of fact, we hate supscriptions. You pay on a per-assessment basis.

  • How do you prevent cheating?

    We use various technologies to track how a candidate behaves in their browser. We know if they open other tabs, if they try to copy test, if they minimize their window, etc. Oh, and they need to have their webcam on during an assessment. We take snapshots, including when multiple faces are detected.

  • How do you protect candidates’ privacy?

    ...we remove their pictures after seven days.

  • When in the hiring process do I use Gatekeeper?

    Gatekeeper is an excellent pre-screening tool. It's cheap and can easily be completed by multiple candidates before inviting them to an interview.

    You can then also use the results to inform the interview process. Outside of hiring, Gatekeeper’s also great for keeping track of your team’s competence levels, such as before and after training.

  • How do I use Gatekeeper results later in the hiring process?

    Gatekeeper's assessment results are grouped per competence.

    This means that they guide organizations for planning training, and further career development. They're also be topics for conversation during the interview.

  • How do I interpret the results?

    We group questions per competence so you can quickly interpret candidates’ strengths and weaknesses.

    Once we’ve gathered enough data, you’ll also be able to see how they compare to the rest of the market.

  • Will I be able to interpret Gatekeeper results if I’m not technical?

    All questions are part of a competence. These competences are formulated in such a way that they are easily understandable.

  • What if all my candidates fail the Gatekeeper test? Were none of them good enough?

    Gatekeeper assessments are difficult. A good candidate will score exceptionally well on one or more competences. Candidates rarely excel at all competences. Further training is usually needed to turn a good candidate into a rockstar.

  • Should I still work with talent assessment companies?

    For digital management roles: yes. Use Gatekeeper to test candidates’ digital competences and use talent and assessment company to verify their interpersonal skills and personalities.

    For other digital workers, there’s no harm in testing the interpersonal skills and personalities of your final shortlist of candidates—if you can afford to do it for such mobile talent.

  • Why do all assessments have two price points?

    Candidates hate doing the same assessments over and over for different companies. That’s why we charge more if you want to prevent other organizations from seeing the results you paid for.

    We prefer the cheaper option because we believe everyone wins in the long run. Candidates a better experience, and that benefits you too since the best ones are least likely to jump through hoops for you. If another organization opted for this option before, you also get your results immediately and pay the lower fee.