Sift thousands of applications.
Surface your best-fit candidates, every time.

Arctic Shores is the pre-hire behavioural assessment for talent teams hiring at scale. Our interactive tasks surface the candidates most likely to perform well in the role. So you never have to worry about missing someone brilliant.

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Talent acquisition leaders and hiring managers at 350+ organisations use Arctic Shores, including:

Recruiting at volume was already hard.
AI just made it a whole lot harder.

Your hiring process was built for a different time, and it's struggling to keep up.

You're drowning in applications that all look the same...

With thousands of application forms or CVs to sift through, separating the standouts from the stack becomes near impossible. And capable candidates get overlooked.

You can't trust the responses you're given anymore...

Self-report and question-based inputs measure how well candidates answer, not what they're capable of. And with AI, there's no way of knowing what's authentic and what's not.

Your process picks up biases you didn't put there...

Traditional screening methods reward polish over potential. And those barriers silently rule out candidates who could be just as good but don't have the same access or support.

There's a smarter way to assess candidates

Know which applicants to progress, and why

Arctic Shores gives you reliable behavioural and cognitive signals on every candidate — captured through interactive tasks that AI can't effectively complete. The result: a ranked shortlist based on what candidates are capable of. Not how well they (or ChatGPT) can answer. So you can cut through the volume, screen fairly, and stop wondering if you missed the right person.

Take the heavy lift out of sifting

Send role-matched assessments automatically for every candidate via your ATS. So your team starts with a filtered shortlist, without the hours of overhead. Whether you receive 800 applications or 8,000.

  • Modular role profiles can be configured to any position or sector
  • Ranked scoring against role-specific benchmarks up to 90th percentile
  • Candidate and manager reports generated for every applicant
"We cut our time-to-shortlist from weeks to hours." — Talent Lead, Enterprise Client

Get a true picture of every candidate

Our interactive assessment captures the cognitive and behavioural data that self-report methods can't. Action-based tasks give you authentic insights that are predictive of how someone might perform in the role.

  • Skill-Enabler™ profile measures potential to acquire new skills
  • Up to 6,000 data points captured per candidate across tasks
  • Behaviour-based tasks have no text input for AI to generate or complete
"We finally have data we trust to make better hiring decisions." — Head of Resourcing

Give every applicant a fair shot

Non-language, non-text tasks remove linguistic and cultural barriers by design. Assess every candidate on equal terms, with transparent and auditable scoring. So you can make hiring decisions you can stand behind.

  • Reasonable adjustments built in for disability and neurodivergence
  • Minimal adverse impact even at high-cut off benchmarks
  • Audit-ready scoring based on cognitive neuroscience research
"Candidates actually thank us for the process now." — Early Careers Lead

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Testimonials

See why talent teams switch to Arctic Shores

Hear from some of the 350+ organisations who have used Arctic Shores to improve quality of hire, reduce attrition, and build more diverse shortlists.

"We took 8 candidates to interview and if we could have hired everyone we would have! The quality of candidates was extremely high with Arctic Shores"

Jon Turner
MD of Electrification and Automation Business, Siemens
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"They've helped us attract top candidates for our Assessment Centers, making our hiring managers happy. Plus, it's freed up our team to focus on other important aspects of recruitment."

Iain Lindsay
Head of Talent, John Sisk & Son Ltd
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"They've helped us attract top candidates for our Assessment Centers, making our hiring managers happy. Plus, it's freed up our team to focus on other important aspects of recruitment."

Iain Lindsay
Head of Talent, John Sisk & Son Ltd
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How it works

Actions reveal more than answers

CVs, SJTs and question-based assessments were already poor predictors of actual performance. Now, with AI, they're easier to manipulate than ever. Arctic Shores takes a different approach. Instead of asking candidates to describe themselves, our interactive tasks put them in real cognitive situations and observe how they respond. Every button tap and reaction pattern captured builds a picture of how someone thinks and behaves under real conditions.

What we measure

Skills go out of date. The traits that build them don't.

Our assessment measures Skill-Enablers™ — the psychological building blocks that determine how someone thinks, learns and grows in a role. Giving you a far more reliable predictor of performance and potential.

Learning agility

How readily candidates absorb and apply new information in unfamiliar situations.

Persistent effort

How candidates maintain performance and motivation when tasks become demanding.

Cognitive agility

How quickly and accurately candidates adapt their thinking as conditions change.

Focused attention

How well candidates control their responses and stay composed under pressure.

Inductive reasoning

How candidates identify patterns and draw conclusions from new information.

Quantitative reasoning

How candidates process and apply numerical information to make decisions.

Emotion perception

How accurately candidates read and interpret others — critical for collaborative roles.

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Getting started

From application to decision in 4 simple steps

Arctic Shores sits at the very beginning of your hiring process. So every choice that follows is built on reliable data.

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Design your assessment

Set up easily using our drag and drop builder, with in-product guidance. Build your own or let our team of business psychologists configure a weighted assessment tailored to your role.

Send automatically

Arctic Shores works with or without an ATS integration. When a candidate applies, they're invited to complete their assessment on any device, no manual input required.

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Know who to progress

Use a high benchmark to select the highest-scoring candidates and invite them to the next stage. Manager reports and interview guides give you everything you need to focus on those with real potential.

Deliver instant feedback

Every candidate receives a personalised report on completion. With industry-leading completion rates of up to 91%, they leave with something valuable regardless of the outcome.

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You don't just get an assessment, you get the team behind it

For talent and hiring teams who need more than software, our team of business psychologists and programme managers are on hand to help. Whether that's defining the right success criteria for your roles, interpreting your results, or designing what comes next in your hiring process. We can help you get every stage right, not just the assessment.

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What I appreciate most is their proactive approach — always bringing fresh ideas and new solutions to the table. It's a partnership that keeps evolving and adding real value to our mission.

Anastasia Stamati,
Candidate & Community Engagement Manager

If it works for nuclear scientists and F1 engineers, it can work for all your roles

Arctic Shores is used by talent teams hiring across thousands of role configurations. Across early careers and graduate schemes to frontline operations and technically complex professional roles. Our assessment adapts to any role and sector. Whatever you're hiring for, we can help you assess for it.

Your next great hire is already in the pile.
Let's help you find them.

Sift at scale, shortlist with confidence, and stop wondering if a great candidate slipped through.

Tell us a bit about your hiring, and we'll be in touch to set up a call.

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