SJT Organizational Skills
The SJT Organizational Skills provides insight into how someone organizes work and adapts to unexpected situations. Candidates are presented with 5 situations, each with five possible responses. Each response must be evaluated individually for appropriateness.
This test focuses on two core competencies. They are measured using the following behavioral indicators:
- Planning ability
→ setting realistic deadlines
→ establishing the right priorities
→ maintaining overview - Adaptability
→ responding correctly to unexpected events
→ overcoming structural problems
This provides insight into how someone plans, organizes and deals with unforeseen circumstances in a professional context.
Organizational skills are a crucial competency in roles where:
- Many tasks run in parallel and must be properly prioritized
- Deadlines must be met without loss of quality
- Flexibility is needed to respond to unexpected circumstances
Unlike a reasoning test or personality questionnaire, this SJT shows how someone makes choices in realistic work contexts with multiple possible answers. This provides a reliable picture of how candidates would organize themselves and adapt to changes.
The report provides standardized scores per competency (stanines 1–9) with corresponding feedback and development advice.
The dimensions are:
- Planning ability
- Sets realistic deadlines
- Establishes the right priorities
- Maintains overview
- Adaptability
- Responds correctly to unexpected events
- Overcomes structural problems
Each score is explained with a feedback text and development tip, so the report not only has selection value but is also useful in coaching and development conversations.
The results are always compared with a representative norm group, so performance can be objectively interpreted.
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 the SJT Organizational Skills:
- Personality test (MAPS)
→ provides insight into stable behavioral preferences such as orderliness, flexibility and stress resistance.
→ reveals something about the natural style in which someone plans and organizes. - Reasoning test (abstract, verbal or numerical)
→ measures cognitive capacity: logical, verbal and/or numerical thinking.
→ reveals something about what someone can handle in terms of complexity and learning ability. - Planning test
→ measures practical planning skills under pressure.
→ complements the SJT with an objective performance measurement of planning and prioritization.
Together, this provides a nuanced and reliable picture of organizational skills: from preferences and behavioral style to practical application.
- Selection: the test offers objective and reliable insight into how candidates behave in realistic work situations. This allows you to better predict who has the most potential to function successfully within your organizational context. This improves the quality of your recruitment and reduces the risk of mismatches.
- Learning & development: the test can serve as a baseline measurement at the start of education or training. You gain insight into the strengths and development points of participants and can tailor the learning path accordingly. With a later measurement, you can also see what progress has been made.
Measures Planning and flexibility in realistic situations
Objective standardization with concrete feedback and development tips
Dutch, French & English
Suitable for all education levels
Situational Judgment Test (SJT) – textual
5 situations, each with 5 responses to evaluate
Time: Maximum 20 minutes
Price per administration: €55




















