Profiel: Maatwerkcoach

SiSO-tool

Select the right customised employment coach with the SiSO-tool.
This test is only available to customised employment companies.

The SiSO tool is a Situational Judgment Test (SJT) that immerses candidates in realistic work situations and asks them to respond as they would on the job. Competencies are measured across 24 scenarios, each with four response options that are assessed for suitability.

The SiSO tool measures six core competencies of customized employment coaches:

  • Collaboration – Creating a constructive environment in which people can work together effectively.
  • Coaching – Supporting employees in achieving their goals through an equal and empowering relationship.
  • Dealing with conflicts – Detecting conflicts and intervening appropriately, with understanding for all parties involved.
  • Flexibility – Adapting smoothly to changes and accurately assessing priorities.
  • Organization – Using time, resources, and people efficiently to achieve objectives.
  • Communication – Conveying ideas and information clearly and structuredly, tailored to the conversation partner.

The tool was developed in collaboration with representatives from the social economy and therefore aligns with the diversity within the customized employment sector. As a result, the tool remains usable in a wide range of organizational and work settings within customized employment.

The test offers:

  • Insight into the core competencies of customized employment coaches as defined in the Decree on Customized Employment (BVR Maatwerk).
  • Realistic job preview for candidates

Because the test is administered through realistic videos, it better aligns with candidates who are less familiar with textual test formats. This increases engagement and measurement accuracy.

The report provides standardized scores (stanine 1–9) for each competency, each accompanied by:

  • Feedback text – description of the current level
  • Development advice – specific advice to strengthen the skill
  • Graphical score display – a visual overview of the results

Through the SJT, both the candidates and the customized employment company gain insight into the candidates’ strengths and development areas. This makes the report useful not only for selection but also for coaching and development discussions.

The six competencies that are reported separately are:

  • Collaboration
  • Coaching
  • Dealing with conflicts
  • Flexibility
  • Organization
  • Communication

No single test perfectly predicts how someone will perform 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 incremental validity: the added value of one test on top of the others.

Recommended combination with the SiSO tool:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioral preferences such as team orientation, perseverance, or stress resilience,
    → helps explain why someone responds in a certain way in social situations.
  • Reasoning test (numerical/verbal)
    → measures cognitive ability: numerical and/or verbal thinking.
    → provides insight into what someone can handle in terms of complexity and pace.
  • Planningstest
    → meet praktische planningsvaardigheden onder druk.
    → vult de SJT aan met een objectieve prestatiemeting van planning en prioritering.
  • Accuracy test
    → measures accuracy under time pressure.
    → provides insight into how carefully and thoroughly someone works when they have to check numerical, textual or visual information.

The SiSO tool is exclusively for use by social enterprises and can be applied in the following contexts:

  • Selection: the test supports the selection process by providing an objective picture of how candidates act as customized employment coaches in everyday work situations. This way you gain insight into who successfully applies competencies such as coaching, clear communication, and problem-solving in practice. This enhances the quality of your hires and reduces the risk of mismatches.
  • Learning & Development: the test can serve as a baseline measurement for new employees. You gain insight into the participants’ strengths and development areas, allowing you to tailor the learning plan accordingly.

Measures the competencies of customized employment coaches in realistic situations

Dutch

Suitable for all educational levels

24 situations, each with 4 reactions to asses

Situational judgment test (SJT) – video format

Accessible to non-native speakers & profiles with limited reading skills

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Value Fit

The Value Fit assesses the match between organisational values and the personal values of candidates. The methodology is based on Schwartz’s value model (1992).

Waarden die gescoord worden :

  • Performance & Recognition: personal success at work, with skills and achievements being recognised within the
    organisation
  • Status & Leadership: social status and prestige in the workplace, which manifest themselves in leadership roles
    and influence
  • Colleagueship: committing to the needs of people with whom one regularly works and building harmonious and
    supportive working relationships
  • Equality & Inclusion: equality, respect, and protection against discrimination for all members of the organisation;
    socially responsible policies
  • Stability & Security: safety, stability, well-being and risk avoidance in the work and organisational setting
  • Tradition: preserving, respecting and promoting the organisation’s traditions, culture and customs
  • Conformity: meeting and adapting to management’s expectations and standards, setting aside personal
    preferences to maintain organisational order
  • Autonomy: independent thinking and decision-making, creativity and exploration at work; freedom to choose
    how one does their job
  • Variety & Challenge: variation, seeking out new impetus and challenges in work situations and contexts
  • Job Satisfaction & Personal Interests: job satisfaction and balance between work and recreational and leisure
    interests
  • Predictor of retention – values fit is a strong indicator of retention, engagement and well-being.
  • Culture and team fit – increases the likelihood of sustainable matches, smoother onboarding and better collaboration.
  • Clear, shared language – makes values explicit and easier to discuss in both selection and HR processes.
  • Fair & transparent – there is no “right or wrong”; it is about finding a good fit.

By including the Value Fit, you can identify early in the process where there is a strong values match (and where there isn’t) something that often remains invisible during interviews.

The report provides an overview of what values are, how they can be interpreted, and why you may want to assess them. It also takes a closer look at the candidate’s results and their fit with the organisation, using rich visuals and tailored feedback texts.

You get:

  • What are values and why measure them
  • Candidate results – The values hierarchy shows which values carry more weight than others in a candidate’s choices and behaviour. Each value includes an explanation of the score.
  • Overall Value Fit* – a concise overview of the degree of fit.
  • Person–Organisation Fit per value* – a visual representation of the proximity or distance between the organisation and the candidate for each value.
  • Explanation of Person–Organisation Fit* – when is there a good fit, and what does this mean for the candidate and the organisation?

*This section is optional in the report. This information is only shown when your organisation has completed the Value Fit organisational survey. The results of that survey are then used as an internal benchmark in the report.

No single test can perfectly predict how someone will perform in a job. Combining assessments intelligently increases incremental validity.

Recommended combination with the Value Fit:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioural preferences (e.g. orderliness, flexibility, stress response).
    → complements values (why) with behaviour (how).
  • SJT (Situational Judgement Test)
    → assesses decision-making and judgement in context.
    → shows how someone makes choices in dilemmas where values come into play.
  • Reasoning test (abstract or verbal)
    → measures cognitive ability, such as handling complexity and learning speed.
    → completes the overall picture without unnecessary overlap.
  • In selection
    Use the Value Fit to assess whether a candidate’s values align with your organisation’s culture. This helps identify potential mismatches early and increases the likelihood of sustainable hiring, motivation and retention.

  • In team development
    Compare individual profiles with the values of the team or department. This highlights where strengths lie and where tensions may arise, helping to strengthen complementarity and collaboration.

  • In organisational development
    Use the Value Fit as a mirror: to what extent are your desired core values truly reflected within the organisation? By combining individual and group results, you gain valuable input to shape your culture and HR policies more effectively.

Self-assessment questionnaire

Schwartz Value Model

Organisational survey as an internal benchmark from €399

Dutch, French & English

Ranking

Suitable for all educational levels

Time: 15 minutes

Price per administration: Starting from €65

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Personality (MAPS)

What does the MAPS (Mapwave’s Appreciative Personality Survey) measure?

In the MAPS, we map professional personality using the Big Five model, one of the most scientifically validated models in psychology.

The five main dimensions are:

  1. Emotional stability – how resilient or sensitive you react to stress or setbacks.
  2. Extraversion – how social, energetic, or reserved you are.
  3. Conscientiousness – how structured, orderly, or flexible you work.
  4. Altruism – how much you consider others versus your own interests.
  5. Openness – how curious and innovation-oriented you are versus conservative.

Why include the MAPS in your test package?

The MAPS provides insight into stable behavioral preferences and the way someone tends to react in various situations. It helps you assess whether someone will fit the job context, team, and organizational culture.

Personality doesn’t tell everything about performance, but is often decisive for long-term behavior such as dealing with stress, collaboration or independent functioning, handling change or feedback, etc. This adds unique predictive value on top of, for example, a reasoning test or situational judgment test.

All questions in the test are specifically formulated for the professional context, making the test feel highly relevant and recognizable to candidates.

About the report

The report displays results across the 5 personality dimensions. Each dimension is further divided into subdimensions, allowing the profile to show much nuance.

For each subdimension, you receive a score, feedback text, and a completed core quadrant by Ofman:

  • Quality – a natural strength in your personality
  • Pitfall – the risk that this quality is used too strongly, causing it to overshoot.
  • Allergy – behavior in others that can strongly irritate you, often the opposite of your quality.
  • Challenge – the behavior you can develop to keep your quality in balance and avoid your pitfall.

This way, you don’t get a “right-wrong” story, but a nuanced, practical, and development-oriented view of the personality profile. This makes the report extremely suitable for recruiters as preparation for selection interviews. Additionally, this is naturally also suitable for self-reflection, coaching, and development conversations.

The results are displayed relative to a representative norm group, so you can put your scores in perspective. Response tendencies are also provided so you get an indication of the social desirability with which a candidate responded.

Recommended combinations with other tests

No single test perfectly predicts on its own how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so that you gather as much relevant information as possible, without unnecessary overlap or test fatigue.

This increases incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.

Recommended combination with a personality questionnaire:

  • Reasoning test
    → measures cognitive abilities, such as abstract reasoning and learning capacity.
    → indicates what someone can handle in terms of complexity and pace.
  • Situational judgment test (SJT)
    → simulates concrete work situations and measures practical decision-making.
    → indicates how someone tends to act in typical job situations.

Through these combinations, you get a multi-layered and reliable overall picture: from capabilities to behavioral preferences to contextual behavior.

Application

The MAPS personality questionnaire is broadly applicable within selection and development.

Specifically, you can use it for:

  • Selection – get an objective and nuanced view of someone’s personality and behavioral preferences. This allows you to assess whether someone aligns with the role and organizational context, and adds reliable data points alongside interviews or CVs.
  • Self-insight – the connection with Ofman’s core quadrants makes strengths, pitfalls, challenges, and allergies concretely visible. Candidates or employees recognize themselves better and understand how their behavior is experienced by others.
  • Coaching and development – the insights form a powerful foundation for coaching trajectories and development plans. It clarifies where growth opportunities lie and how someone can more effectively deal with their own pitfalls and challenges.

This way, you turn selection and development from guesswork into a substantiated process that leads to targeted growth.

Big Five Model

Core Quadrants for development-oriented insight

Dutch, French & English

Suitable for all education levels

Self-assessment questionnaire

120 questions

Time: 15 minutes

Price per administration: €55

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Accuracy Test Bachelor

The accuracy test measures how carefully and thoroughly someone works when they need to check numerical, textual, or visual information. Candidates are presented with a series of short items — think of number sequences, figures, or text fragments — and must indicate each time whether these are identical or not.

The test measures the extent to which someone can detect errors, correctly verify data, and remain focused under time pressure. This is an important competency in positions where precision, error-free work, or quality control are essential.

In many positions, one small mistake is enough to have major consequences — think of incorrect amounts on an invoice, an error in a contract, or a wrong serial number in logistics.

This test is particularly suitable for positions where employees:

  • Regularly need to check and process data or documents
  • Must work error-free, even with monotonous or repetitive tasks
  • Must act quickly and precisely, for example in administrative processing, quality control, or data entry

By combining three different forms of input (numbers, text, and figures), you get a broad picture of someone’s accuracy in diverse contexts. The built-in time pressure also simulates the reality of many positions, giving the results high predictive value for performance in daily work.

The test results show one standardized score: accuracy. The score is based on the number of correct, incorrect, and blank answers within the time limit. Each incorrect answer leads to a negative score, which encourages candidates not to guess blindly. This makes the test particularly suitable for reliably detecting differences in meticulousness.

The score is presented as a stanine score (1-9), so you can easily assess how someone scores relative to the norm group. In the report, you also receive textual feedback about how accurately and carefully the candidate typically works.

Accuracy is only one part of the broader picture. Combine this test with other measurements for a more complete view of someone’s suitability for a role.

Recommended combinations:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioral preferences such as empathy, stress resistance, 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 something about what someone can handle in terms of complexity and learning ability.
  • Situational judgment test (SJT)
    → measures behavior in recognizable work situations.
    → indicates something about how someone is inclined to act in practice-oriented contexts.

The Accuracy Test is a valuable addition within selection procedures. Interviews and CVs can give a biased picture, as candidates often present themselves better than they really are. This test offers an objective and reliable measure of their ability to process detailed information quickly and accurately. This provides you with a reliable picture of precision and attention to detail.

Simple, yet powerful in measuring meticulousness

High validity in roles with error-sensitive tasks

Dutch, French & English

Speed test with correct/incorrect choices

Suitable for bachelor level

30 questions

Time: Maximum 5 minutes

Price per administration: €40

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Accuracy Test Secondary

The accuracy test measures how carefully and thoroughly someone works when they need to check numerical, textual, or visual information. Candidates are presented with a series of short items — think of number sequences, figures, or text fragments — and must indicate each time whether these are identical or not.

The test measures the extent to which someone can detect errors, correctly verify data, and remain focused under time pressure. This is an important competency in positions where precision, error-free work, or quality control are essential.

In many positions, one small mistake is enough to have major consequences — think of incorrect amounts on an invoice, an error in a contract, or a wrong serial number in logistics.

This test is particularly suitable for positions where employees:

  • Regularly need to check and process data or documents
  • Must work error-free, even with monotonous or repetitive tasks
  • Must act quickly and precisely, for example in administrative processing, quality control, or data entry

By combining three different forms of input (numbers, text, and figures), you get a broad picture of someone’s accuracy in diverse contexts. The built-in time pressure also simulates the reality of many positions, giving the results high predictive value for performance in daily work.

The test results show one standardized score: accuracy. The score is based on the number of correct, incorrect, and blank answers within the time limit. Each incorrect answer leads to a negative score, which encourages candidates not to guess blindly. This makes the test particularly suitable for reliably detecting differences in diligence.

The score is presented as a stanine score (1-9), so you can easily assess how someone scores relative to the norm group. In the report, you also receive textual feedback about how accurately and carefully the candidate typically works.

Accuracy is only one part of the broader picture. Combine this test with other measurements for a more complete view of someone’s suitability for a role.

Recommended combinations:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioral preferences such as empathy, stress resistance, 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 something about what someone can handle in terms of complexity and learning ability.
  • Situational judgment test (SJT)
    → measures behavior in recognizable work situations.
    → indicates something about how someone is inclined to act in practice-oriented contexts.

The Accuracy Test is a valuable addition within selection procedures. Where interviews or CVs often give a biased picture and candidates can present themselves better than they actually are, this test offers an objective measurement of someone’s ability to quickly and error-free process detailed information. This provides you with a reliable picture of precision and attention to detail.

Simple, yet powerful in measuring diligence

High validity in roles with error-sensitive tasks

Dutch, French & English

Suitable for secondary level

Speed test with correct/incorrect choices

30 questions

Time: Maximum 5 minutes

Price per administration: €40

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Planning Test

The planning test measures practical planning skills under time pressure. Candidates receive a large amount of information – such as tasks, time limits and priorities – and must create the most optimal planning possible.

This test evaluates:

  • Information processing – how quickly and accurately you process complex input
  • Working memory and analytical thinking – how well you make connections and create a realistic plan
  • Stress resistance and efficiency – how you perform under time pressure

The test simulates a realistic work situation in which candidates demonstrate their ability to work in a structured and goal-oriented manner, even under high cognitive load.

Planning ability is crucial in roles where:

  • Deadlines must be met
  • Multiple tasks must be efficiently combined
  • Work must be organized
  • Priorities must be properly assessed

The planning test provides an objective, performance-oriented measure of this skill. Candidates cannot ‘guess well’: only a correctly constructed plan leads to a high score.

By including this test in your selection procedure, you gain insight into how someone plans, prioritizes and makes decisions under pressure – information that is often not visible in interviews or personality questionnaires. This increases the chance of sustainable performance and smooth integration in demanding roles.

The report provides one clear score on planning ability, displayed relative to a norm group via a stanine score (1-9).

Additionally, the report contains:

  • Feedback text – a brief description of the current planning level
  • Development tips – practical recommendations to further strengthen planning ability
  • Item analysis – number of correct, incorrect and unanswered questions
  • Time registration – total duration of the test administration (max. 45 minutes)

No single test perfectly predicts on its own how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so that you gather as much relevant information as possible, without unnecessary overlap or test fatigue. This increases the incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.

Recommended combination with a planning test:

  • Reasoning test
    → measures cognitive capacities, such as abstract reasoning and learning ability.
    → indicates what someone can handle in terms of complexity and pace.
  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioral preferences, such as orderliness, stress resistance and flexibility.
    → indicates how someone is inclined to act in work situations.

Through these combinations, you get a multi-layered and reliable overall picture: from capacities to behavioral preferences to practical problem-solving ability.

The Planning Test is a valuable addition within selection procedures. Where interviews and CV screenings are often based on what a candidate says, this exercise shows how someone practically deals with pressure, priorities and complex choices.

Measures planning skills under pressure – realistic simulation

Objective performance measurement – not a guessing test

Dutch

Suitable for bachelor and master levels

Performance-oriented multiple-choice test

15 questions

Time: maximum 45 minutes

Price per administration: €40

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Numerical Reasoning Bachelor

The numerical reasoning test assesses how well someone understands numerical information and processes it logically. Candidates are presented with numerical material in the form of tables, graphs or text. They must interpret this data and perform the correct calculations to arrive at the right answer.

The test focuses on reasoning skills, not on calculation rules. It is therefore not about how well you can do mental arithmetic, but how logically you process numerical information and make connections. Using a calculator is allowed and recommended.

Numerical reasoning ability is one of the three most predictive cognitive skills for general intelligence and therefore also for success in many roles, especially when analytical thinking, numerical insight or data usage plays a role.

Numerical reasoning ability is among the core skills that are highly predictive for:

  • Roles where numerical analysis and reporting is important
  • Making quick and correct decisions based on quantitative information
  • Understanding financial and operational data

It is a relevant indicator for learning speed, complexity processing and analytical ability. This test is relevant for a broad range of roles, from administrative and commercial positions to technical and management positions.
Because the questions do not require specific subject knowledge, the test purely measures numerical thinking ability, independent of education or work experience.

By including this test in your selection procedure, you quickly and objectively gain insight into how smoothly someone works with numbers and whether they possess the analytical foundation that the role requires.

The test results are displayed in stanines (standardized scores from 1 to 9) on:

  • Numerical reasoning ability – the extent to which you succeed in correctly interpreting numerical information and drawing logical conclusions from it.
  • Speed – how quickly you answered the questions. This has no impact on your total score, but provides additional insight into your work pace.

The test is scientifically founded, validated and standardized. It allows scores to be correctly placed in perspective relative to a relevant reference group.

No single test perfectly predicts on its own how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so that you gather as much relevant information as possible, without unnecessary overlap or test fatigue.

This increases incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.

Recommended combination with a reasoning test:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → measures stable behavioral preferences, such as stress resistance, independence, flexibility.
    → says something about how someone behaves in the workplace.
  • Situational judgment test (SJT)
    → simulates realistic work situations and measures how someone is inclined to react.
    → says something about practical judgment, setting priorities, collaboration, etc.

The Numerical Reasoning test is a strong addition within selection procedures. Where an interview or CV is based on self-presentation, this test offers an objective measurement of the ability to logically process and interpret numerical information.

This gives you a reliable picture of a candidate’s analytical and numerical skills, which supports your selection process with results instead of assumptions.

Measures the ability to process and interpret numerical data

Relevant indicator for learning speed, complexity processing and analytical ability

Dutch, French & English

Reasoning test based on numerical material

Performance-oriented multiple-choice test

7 questions

Time: Maximum 18 minutes

Price per administration: €40

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Verbal Reasoning Bachelor

The verbal reasoning test measures your ability to critically analyze written information and draw correct conclusions from it. Candidates read short texts and evaluate subsequent statements as true, false or cannot be determined from the text.

This test evaluates:

  • Logical reasoning with language – interpreting facts and implications
  • Critical thinking and concentration – distinguishing between what is explicitly stated and what is not
  • Accuracy and speed of information processing

Verbal reasoning ability is one of the cognitive skills that is most predictive of general intelligence and future job performance.

Verbal reasoning ability is crucial in roles where:

  • Sharp analysis of written information is required
  • Accuracy in interpretation has a direct impact
  • Candidates must quickly separate main points from details

By including this test in your selection procedure, you gain insight into how someone reasons with language, substantiates decisions, and processes textual information – capabilities that are often decisive for successful performance in a bachelor-level position.

The report displays results on three dimensions:

  • Verbal reasoning ability – the number of correct answers converted to a stanine score (1-9), standardized against a representative norm group
    • Recognizing Contradictions and Distortions: How well someone critically evaluates statements when the information is incorrect, overly absolute, or biased.
    • Assessing the Limits of Evidence: How well someone assesses whether there is sufficient information to make a claim.
    • Drawing Valid Conclusions: How well someone uses relevant information to reach accurate conclusions.
  • Accuracy – the extent to which the given answers were correct, without penalty points for answers marked as “I don’t know”
  • Speed – the time required to complete the test (does not affect the score, but provides additional insight into work pace)

The stanine score allows for objective comparison of candidates with a norm group.

The report is clear, concise, and immediately usable as input for selection and development interviews.

No single test perfectly predicts on its own how someone will function in a job. What you can do is smartly combine tests that each measure something different — so that you gather as much relevant information as possible, without unnecessary overlap or test fatigue. This increases the incremental validity: the added value of a test on top of the others.

Recommended combination with a verbal reasoning test:

  • Personality test (MAPS)
    → provides insight into stable behavioral preferences, such as orderliness, conscientiousness, and cooperation.
    → indicates how someone is inclined to act in work situations.
  • Abstract reasoning test
    → measures logical and analytical thinking with figures and patterns.
    → indicates learning ability and problem-solving thinking outside language context.

Through these combinations, you get a multi-layered and reliable overall picture: from cognitive capabilities to behavioral preferences and practical analysis.

The Verbal Reasoning test provides an objective addition within selection procedures. While interviews often give an impression of communicative skills, this test demonstrates in a standardized way how strong a candidate is in analyzing and interpreting information, and consequently drawing correct conclusions.

Measures critical and logical thinking with language

Objective performance measurement, standardized at bachelor level

Dutch, French & English

Suitable for bachelor education level

Performance-oriented multiple-choice test

12 statements (6 texts with 2 statements each)

Time: maximum 16 minutes

Price per administration: €40

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