Online soft skills test: the competencies that actually make the difference

Soft skills. Real-life scenarios. AI-powered reports ready for shortlisting.

When technical skills are equal, behavior is what sets candidates apart. Communication, adaptability, emotional intelligence — these competencies predict long-term performance better than any other criterion. CodeDuel measures them through realistic professional scenarios and generates detailed behavioral reports, directly usable by your HR teams during interviews.

13
competency families
52
available assessments
3 credits
per assessment
  • Measures what a résumé can't show
  • AI report usable in interviews
  • Questions randomly drawn from our question bank

The #1 competency cited by recruiters as decisive in professional success. For candidates, it means being understood, progressing quickly, and integrating without friction. For HR, it's a reliable predictor of team performance and conflict resolution. For managers, it's the assurance of a collaborator who communicates clearly. For clients and colleagues, it means productive exchanges and misunderstandings avoided.

Everything about Communication
Advanced

Managing Misunderstandings

Evaluates your ability to detect, prevent and resolve misunderstandings in a professional context, whether communicational, cultural or emotional.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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The ability to work in a team directly conditions collective productivity and talent retention. For candidates, it means knowing how to contribute, share, and navigate disagreements without creating tension. For HR, it's a strong predictor of job tenure. For managers, it's the assurance that the hire elevates the team. For clients, it's the guarantee that teams deliver together without internal dysfunction.

Everything about Collaboration
Advanced

Integration into a New Group

Evaluates your ability to effectively integrate into a new team or professional context, build trust quickly and contribute positively from the first weeks.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Managing Disagreements

Evaluates your ability to manage disagreements constructively, maintain healthy professional relationships while defending your positions and seeking solutions acceptable to all parties.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Cooperation and Sharing

Evaluates your ability to work constructively with others, share knowledge and resources, and actively contribute to collective success.

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20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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What separates a good executor from a true innovation driver. For candidates, it means proposing solutions where others see obstacles. For CHROs, it's a key lever for performance and organizational adaptability. For managers, it's the assurance of someone who resolves issues without constant escalation. For clients, it's an interlocutor who finds solutions even outside standard frameworks.

Everything about Problem Solving
Advanced

Decision Making Under Pressure

Evaluates your ability to make effective decisions in emergency, uncertainty or stress situations, maintaining clear judgment and owning your choices.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Prioritization

Evaluates your ability to distinguish urgent from important, manage competing demands and allocate your energy on what creates the most value in your professional context.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Creativity When Facing a Deadlock

Evaluates your ability to move beyond conventional solutions, generate new ideas when facing obstacles and mobilize your creativity to unblock complex professional situations.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Analyzing a Complex Situation

Evaluates your ability to identify root causes of a problem, distinguish the essential from the secondary and structure your analysis before acting in complex professional situations.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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In a constantly changing professional world, adaptability is no longer optional — it's an organizational survival condition. For candidates, it's the ability to remain effective under change and pressure. For HR, it's an indicator of resilience and tenure. For managers, it's confidence that the person won't be destabilized by the unexpected. For teams and clients, it's continuity of service even in difficult situations.

Everything about Adaptability
Advanced

Tolerance for Ambiguity

Assesses the ability to function effectively in incomplete, unclear or changing situations, without being paralyzed by the lack of information.

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20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Managing Professional Stress

Assesses the ability to recognize, regulate and manage stress in demanding professional contexts, while maintaining quality and working relationships.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Adapting to Change

Assesses the ability to positively adapt to new situations, organizational changes, and professional unexpected events.

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20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Leadership isn't limited to managers — every high-potential professional demonstrates it. For candidates, it's the ability to take initiative and inspire trust without waiting to be told what to do. For CHROs, it's a strong signal for succession and internal development plans. For managers, it's the prospect of delegating with confidence. For colleagues and clients, it's the reassuring presence of someone who organizes and drives forward, even in uncertainty.

Everything about Leadership
Advanced

Taking Initiative

Assesses the ability to act proactively, identify improvement opportunities without being asked, and make decisions in situations of uncertainty.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Influence Without Authority

Assesses the ability to convince, mobilize, and change people's minds without relying on hierarchical authority, through credibility, communication, and understanding of others.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Delegation and Trust

Assesses the ability to entrust responsibilities to others, build trust, set the right level of oversight, and develop team members through delegation.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Autonomy and Accountability

Assesses the ability to work autonomously, make decisions without constant supervision, own results, and take responsibility for one's actions and mistakes.

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20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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The differentiating factor of high performers in complex environments. For candidates, it means managing emotions and reading others to communicate and decide better. For HR, it's a powerful predictor of future leadership and relational quality. For managers, it's assurance of someone who handles tension without amplifying it. For clients and colleagues, it's the experience of an empathetic, stable, and pleasant interlocutor even under pressure.

Everything about Emotional Intelligence
Advanced

Emotional Regulation

Assess the ability to manage and modulate emotional reactions in demanding professional contexts, including under pressure, in conflict situations or when facing destabilizing events.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Managing Interpersonal Relationships

Assess the ability to build, maintain and repair quality professional relationships, manage tensions and disagreements constructively, and create a climate of trust and cooperation within teams.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Empathy and Active Listening

Assess the ability to understand and share others' emotions, practise attentive non-judgmental listening, and adapt responses by taking into account the interlocutor's experience and needs.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Emotional Self-Awareness

Assesses the ability to identify, name and understand one's own emotions, recognize their impact on behaviors and decisions, and use this self-knowledge to act more effectively.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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The invisible foundation on which trust rests in any organization. For candidates, it's the ability to make the right choices even when no one is watching. For CHROs, it's an essential filter against reputational and legal risks. For managers, it's certainty that the person will never compromise the team or company. For clients and partners, it's the guarantee of working with professionals of unquestionable integrity.

Everything about Professional Ethics
Advanced

Responsibility and Accountability

Assess the ability to fully assume one's responsibilities, account for one's actions and decisions, avoid shifting blame to others, and draw lessons from mistakes in a spirit of continuous improvement.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Respecting Confidentiality

Assesses the ability to protect sensitive information, respect confidentiality rules, and handle situations where discretion is essential.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Integrity and Honesty

Assess the ability to act with integrity, transparency and consistency between stated values and behaviours, particularly when facing pressure, compromises and ethically ambiguous situations.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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What distinguishes professionals who move forward from those who spin in place. For candidates, it's the ability to transform objectives into concrete actions and persevere until success. For CHROs and managers, it's a direct indicator of productivity and delivery reliability. For teams, it's the positive dynamic of a colleague who keeps commitments. For clients, it's certainty that deadlines will be met and promises kept.

Everything about Results Orientation
Advanced

Quality Orientation

Assesses the ability to maintain high quality standards in work, detect and correct errors, and place excellence at the heart of professional actions.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Measuring and Managing Impact

Assess the ability to define relevant indicators, measure the impact of actions taken, and manage results with rigour and transparency.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Achieving Objectives

Assesses the ability to define, pursue and achieve professional objectives despite obstacles, staying on course and adapting actions based on results.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Continuous Improvement

Assesses the ability to identify improvement areas in practices and processes, learn from past experiences and initiate lasting positive changes.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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The competency customers notice first, and the one that makes them come back or leave. For candidates, it means listening for the real need, staying calm with an unhappy customer and keeping their promises. For HR, it is a decisive criterion for every customer-facing role: advisory, sales, support, front desk, account management. For managers, it is the assurance of a team member who protects the company's image in delicate situations. For customers, it is the difference between someone who handles a file and a partner who solves their problem.

Everything about Customer Orientation
Advanced

Service Quality and Customer Follow-up

Evaluates your ability to keep your commitments to customers, keep them informed without waiting for them to chase you, check their satisfaction and maintain consistent service quality, even under heavy workload.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Understanding Customer Needs

Evaluates your ability to uncover the real need behind a customer's request, validate your understanding and propose a solution suited to their context and constraints.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment

People leave managers, not companies: the quality of front-line management directly drives team engagement, performance and retention. For candidates, it means saying things fairly, helping everyone grow and holding course in difficult periods. For HR, it is a way to assess a managerial promotion or hire beyond technical expertise. For leadership, it is the assurance of managers who turn decisions into action without breaking motivation. For teams, it means a manager who is fair, present and predictable.

Everything about Team Management
Advanced

Motivation and Recognition

Evaluates your ability to give meaning to your team's work, recognise each person's contributions in a fair and personalised way, and sustain engagement, including during difficult periods.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Managing Conflict Within the Team

Evaluates your ability, as a manager, to spot, understand and resolve conflicts between members of your team, remaining impartial, fostering shared solutions and deciding or escalating when the situation requires it.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Feedback and Corrective Conversations

Evaluates your ability to give specific positive feedback, address behaviour factually and fairly, handle the employee's reactions and follow up on the commitments made.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Developing Team Members

Evaluates your ability to identify each team member's potential, set concrete development goals with them and support their progress through a coaching stance.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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The invisible competency that separates professionals who endure their day from those who run it. For candidates, it means meeting deadlines without burning out, saying no in time and dropping nothing. For HR, it is a reliable indicator of autonomy and ability to take on more. For managers, it is the assurance of a team member who flags delays before they happen and whose files can be picked up at any time. For clients and colleagues, it means someone who answers, follows up and delivers on promises.

Everything about Organization and Personal Effectiveness
Advanced

Planning and Time Management

Evaluates your ability to plan your work, estimate task durations realistically, anticipate deadlines with margins and milestones, and adjust your schedule while giving early warning when a deadline is at risk.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Managing Multiple Files in Parallel

Evaluates your ability to keep an overview of your files, move each one forward without letting any lie dormant, manage dependencies and keep your stakeholders informed through to closure.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Information Organization and Follow-up

Evaluates your ability to file and retrieve information, record decisions and commitments, follow up at the right time and share documents in line with confidentiality rules.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Managing Workload and Interruptions

Evaluates your ability to assess your real workload before committing, to negotiate or redirect requests, to flag an overload in time and to protect your focus from interruptions.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Every contract, budget and deadline is negotiated, and a few points won or lost go straight to the margin. For candidates, it means defending their interests without damaging the relationship, resisting pressure and closing. For HR, it is a key criterion for purchasing, sales, legal and management roles. For leadership, it is the assurance of people who never concede without something in return and who respect their mandate. For partners, it means a demanding but reliable counterpart whose agreements last.

Everything about Negotiation
Advanced

Reaching a Win-Win Agreement

Evaluates your ability to distinguish positions from interests, broaden the discussion beyond price, trade conditional concessions based on objective criteria and conclude a written agreement that both parties can implement and that preserves the relationship.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Preparing a Negotiation

Evaluates your ability to prepare a negotiation by clarifying your objectives, your fallback option and your walk-away point, anticipating the other party's interests and objections, and planning your arguments, concessions and mandate.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Internal Negotiation

Evaluates your ability to negotiate within your organisation, to obtain resources, deadlines or rulings through costed arguments and an exchange of concessions, to loyally support the decisions made and to preserve lasting working relationships.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Handling Objections and Tension

Evaluates your ability to welcome and explore objections, answer them with facts, stay calm in the face of pressure tactics and aggressive counterparts, and know when to pause or walk away from a negotiation without compromising on ethics.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Teams no longer necessarily share the same office, language or codes. For candidates, it means being understood in writing and on video calls, avoiding cultural misunderstandings and moving forward without direct supervision. For HR, it is a decisive criterion for remote, subsidiary and international-facing roles. For managers, it is the assurance of a reliable remote team member who flags blockers early and includes everyone. For international partners, it means a respectful, clear and effective counterpart.

Everything about Intercultural and Remote Work
Advanced

International and Multilingual Teams

Evaluates your ability to work effectively in an international, multilingual team by simplifying your language, checking that everyone has understood, sharing time zone constraints fairly and taking each site's local rules into account.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
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Advanced

Intercultural Communication

Evaluates your ability to perceive differences in communication styles, check your understanding rather than assume, and adapt the way you interact with people from other cultures, without reducing a person to their origin.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Remote Collaboration

Evaluates your ability to collaborate effectively at a distance by choosing the right channel, writing clear and self-contained messages, taking part in video and hybrid meetings that leave no one out, and coordinating asynchronous work while respecting everyone's availability.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment
Advanced

Autonomy and Visibility When Working Remotely

Evaluates your ability to organize your work remotely without direct supervision, make it visible without overdoing it, flag blockers early and protect both your boundaries and data security outside the office.

Questions
20 · randomly drawn
Duration
35 min
Start assessment

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