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.
A time management test shows how a person turns a deadline into a realistic work plan. Day to day, this skill comes into play long before things become urgent: estimating how long an unfamiliar task will take, spreading a large deliverable over several weeks, setting aside slots for demanding work, revising the schedule when a supplier or colleague falls behind. It determines how reliable one's commitments to clients and management really are.
This online planning test draws on scenarios from banking, construction, hospitality and manufacturing. It sheds light on how candidates anticipate, break down and readjust their work. Candidates get a clear picture of their habits; recruiters get useful insight for roles bound by contractual deadlines or tight calendars.
What this test measures
- How one estimates the duration of a new or unfamiliar task before committing to a deadline
- How a distant deliverable is broken down into dated, verifiable intermediate steps
- How much room is left for the unexpected when the week is planned on paper
- How one acts when a promised deadline looks threatened by an external delay
- How one deals with tedious or awkward tasks that tend to get put off
Examples of situations in the test
- 1A design office engineer who realizes halfway through that the drawings are several days behind schedule
- 2A hotel events manager coordinating several suppliers for a seminar taking place in a few weeks
- 3A consultant asked by a client to estimate the duration of a type of assignment new to them
- 4A bank management controller whose every month-end close finishes in a rush
About this test
This test uses situational judgement tests (SJT), true/false questions and prioritisation exercises to assess your real behaviours. Each answer is weighted: there is no obvious "wrong" answer.
How to read your result
High result
A high result describes someone who builds credible schedules, sees deadlines coming from afar and adjusts their organization before the situation gets out of hand.
Result to develop
A result to develop indicates that deadlines are still often decided in the final days. The report pinpoints the stages where organization weakens, from estimating to tracking, and suggests concrete ways to plan with more peace of mind.
Roles where this skill is decisive
- Project manager
- Design office engineer
- Consultant
- Management controller
- Events manager
- Account manager
Who is it for?
Candidates & Professionals
Assess your behavioural skills through realistic scenario-based questions. Get a detailed AI report on your strengths and development areas.
Recruiters & HR
Integrate this test into your selection process to objectively assess your candidates' soft skills.
Frequently asked questions
How does this test differ from a prioritization test?
Prioritization is about choosing between competing requests at a given moment. This test looks along the time axis: how you estimate effort, how you spread work out until its deadline, how you respond when a schedule slips. The two skills complement each other, and taking both tests gives a fuller picture of how you organize yourself.
Do I need to know time management methods to do well?
No. No particular method or tool is required. The scenarios describe concrete work contexts and ask how you would act. Because answers are weighted, several options may seem acceptable: the best preparation is to answer according to your real habits, since that behavior is what the report then analyzes.
Where does this time management test fit in a hiring process?
It works best before the interview: candidates shortlisted for a campaign sign in and take it remotely. The AI-generated behavioral report then points out each person's strengths and weak spots, giving material for the conversation, for example by asking the candidate to describe a project whose timeline was disrupted.
How long does the test take and in which languages is it available?
Allow 35 minutes for 20 questions drawn at random from a larger bank: situational scenarios, True/False statements and prioritization exercises. Two attempts will therefore not necessarily show the same questions. The test is available in French, English and Arabic and ends with a behavioral report.