SJT Customer Service
The SJT Customer Service measures how someone functions in customer-oriented and stressful communication situations. Candidates listen to 9 situations via audio clips, each with four possible responses. Each response must be evaluated individually for appropriateness.
Unique to this test is that the situations are explained through audio files . This makes the experience extra realistic and closely aligns with roles where telephone or digital customer contact is central.
The test evaluates three core competencies:
- Customer orientation – always putting the customer first, providing targeted advice and responding to needs
- Results orientation – staying focused on goals and persevering through obstacles or unexpected circumstances
- Stress resilience – remaining calm and effective under pressure, resistance, or emotions
Digital communication often requires quick decisions, customer-friendly behavior, and dealing with stress. This SJT provides a realistic picture of how someone behaves in such situations.
The test is particularly suitable for roles where employees:
- have intensive contact with customers (by phone or digitally)
- must make correct and efficient decisions under pressure
- must remain calm during resistance or challenging conversations
Because the test works through audio clips , the candidate experiences the situations more realistically than in a text-based SJT. This gives you a better prediction of future behavior in a real work context.
The report provides standardized scores (stanine 1–9) on three competencies:
- Customer orientation – how well someone responds to customer needs and expectations
- Results orientation – the extent to which someone acts goal-oriented and persistently
- Stress resilience – how effectively someone continues to function under pressure
Each score is explained with:
- Feedback text – description of current behavior
- Development advice – practical tips to become stronger in the competency
- Graphical score display – clearly presented relative to the norm group
The report is suitable for both selection and coaching and development conversations.
No single test perfectly predicts how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so you gather as much relevant information as possible, without overlap or test fatigue. This increases the incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.
Recommended combination with the SJT Customer Service:
- Personality test (MAPS)
→ provides insight into stable behavioral preferences such as empathy, stress resilience, and flexibility.
→ helps explain why someone reacts in a certain way in customer situations. - Reasoning test (abstract, verbal, or numerical)
→ measures cognitive capacity: logical, verbal, and/or numerical thinking.
→ indicates what someone can handle in terms of complexity and learning ability.
The SJT Customer Service can be used in both selection and development for roles within call centers, customer service, reception, and secretarial work:
- In selection the test provides an objective picture of how candidates handle situations that specifically occur in roles with extensive customer contact. You get a clear score on customer orientation, results orientation, and stress resilience. This improves the quality of your hires and reduces the risk of mismatches.
- In learning & development the test can serve as a baseline measurement at the start of a training or development program. You map the competencies of employees and gain insight into strengths and development points. With a later administration, you also see the growth and learning effect.
Measures customer orientation, results orientation, and stress resilience
Realistic audio simulations
Dutch
Suitable for all education levels
Situational Judgment Test (SJT) – audio format
9 situations, each with 4 responses to evaluate
Time: Maximum 30 minutes
Price per administration: €55




















