Jordan Avery (Sample Candidate)
sample@hirovia.com · Corporate Accounts Manager · Completed · invited 2026-08-01 · completed 2026-08-01
1Assessment
Strong across the board, and the evidence backs it up.
Put this candidate at the front of the queue. Use the guide below to confirm rather than to screen.
- 74 Rapport Building
- 74 Systematic Execution
- 74 Situational Insight
- 50 Discovery & Qualification
- 64 Relationship Management
Full assessment detail: competencies, scenarios and written answers
Composite Score /100 — ranking metric
Behavioral fit 90 (55%) · Scenarios 78 (20%) · Résumé evidence 76 (15%) · Written evidence 71 (10%)
Role Fit /90 vs. success profile
ExceptionalThis profile is an exceptional match for the role's success pattern. Move quickly — candidates like this are rare and don't stay on the market long.
Core competencies
These decide the role-fit score. The shaded band is the range that works in this role; the marker is where this candidate sits against everyone who has taken the assessment.
Supporting indicators
Secondary competencies. They do not move the role-fit score, but they shape how the core strengths show up day to day.
Worth probing: Direct Dialogue
Situational judgment 7 of 9 points
Each situation below is one a person in this role actually meets, with no researchable right answer — every option is plausible, and the choice reveals what the candidate prioritises under pressure. Options carry different weights; the strongest is worth full marks.
Profile Match
17 of 22 behaviors in the success-profile zone.
Behavior detail (stanines 1–9)
| Behavior | Target | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assertiveness | high | 4 | ✗ |
| Communications | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Competitive Style | mid | 4 | ✓ |
| Concentration | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Conflict Management | high | 5 | ✗ |
| Creativeness | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Decisiveness | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Detail Orientation | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Ego | high | 4 | ✗ |
| Emotional Composure | mid | 7 | ✗ |
| Empathy | mid | 7 | ✗ |
| Initiative | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Instructiveness | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Learning | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Listening | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Negotiating | mid | 4 | ✓ |
| Planning | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Presentation Style | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Schedule Orientation | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Sociability | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Structure | high | 7 | ✓ |
| Task Completion | high | 7 | ✓ |
All 33 behaviors
| Affiliation | 4 |
| Assertiveness | 4 |
| Authority Relationships | 3 |
| Closure | 4 |
| Communications | 7 |
| Competitive Style | 4 |
| Concentration | 7 |
| Conflict Management | 5 |
| Creativeness | 7 |
| Decisiveness | 7 |
| Detail Orientation | 7 |
| Ego | 4 |
| Emotional Composure | 7 |
| Empathy | 7 |
| Goal Orientation | 4 |
| Influence | 3 |
| Initiative | 7 |
| Instructiveness | 7 |
| Intensity | 4 |
| Learning | 7 |
| Listening | 7 |
| Mobility | 4 |
| Negotiating | 4 |
| Planning | 7 |
| Presentation Style | 7 |
| Response to Change | 5 |
| Schedule Orientation | 7 |
| Self Responsibility | 7 |
| Sociability | 7 |
| Structure | 7 |
| Task Completion | 7 |
| Time Competency | 5 |
| Vitality | 7 |
Written answers (scored 71/100)
For the past three years I managed a portfolio of 18 corporate accounts worth about $2.4M annually. I ran quarterly business reviews with every account and monthly check-ins with the top five. When I took over, retention was 88%; I brought it to 96% by [sample answer continues...]
Assessed 74/100. Concrete account example with portfolio size, cadence of reviews and a quantified growth outcome. Slightly light on senior-stakeholder strategy.
Our largest client gave notice after a billing dispute compounded a service delay. I asked for 30 days, brought their operations lead into a weekly call, fixed the root invoice error, and negotiated a service credit. They renewed for two years [sample answer continues...]
Assessed 68/100. Honest account of a client on the verge of leaving; clear ownership and a structured recovery plan. Outcome stated but long-term relationship state left vague.
Overall: Answers are specific and grounded in real situations, with honest treatment of a near-loss. The retention answer would benefit from more detail on the long-term relationship repair.
2Résumé review
What the résumé shows for this role, and whether it was written with AI.
Blind résumé check
Strong evidenceWhat the résumé itself shows for this role, read blind: the name and personal details were removed first. It is not part of the overall score and it is not a hiring decision.
- Directly relevant experience
- More than 3 years
- Measurable results
- Several measurable results
- Relevant work in the last 3 years
- Yes
- Responsibility for others
- Managed a team
AI-writing check
AI-assistedParts of this résumé were written or reworded with an AI tool.
Next step: In the interview, ask about the specific projects, numbers and tools the résumé lists, and check the candidate can explain them in their own words.
Résumé evaluation — 76/100
Résumé evaluation — 76/100
Six years of B2B account management with clear progression from coordinator to senior account owner. Strong tenure pattern (2-3 years per role) and quantified retention results. Resume is well organized and achievement-oriented.
- Managed a $2.4M portfolio of 18 corporate accounts with 96% retention over two years
- Documented expansion wins, including growing a key account 40% through proactive needs analysis
- Stable career progression within the same industry
- No direct experience with enterprise procurement cycles longer than 6 months
- Gap of 7 months in 2023 is not explained
- Limited evidence of managing accounts through a pricing increase or service failure
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4Interview
Suggested interview guide
Questions cover every core competency plus any supporting indicator that scored below average — investigate core areas regardless of score.
Rapport Building
- Contacts clients only when something is due
- Knows the account, not the people
- Rapport is a script, not a relationship
- Maintains contact rhythm beyond transactions
- Knows clients' goals, pressures and preferences
- Clients ask for them by name
- What has kept it alive?
- What has it been worth to both sides?
- Walk me through a real onboarding you did.
- What do you record and remember?
- What was the first sign?
- What would you do differently?
Relationship Management
- Relationships are transactional and shallow
- Friction is left to harden into distance
- Wins the point, loses the partner
- Builds trust across levels and functions
- Repairs strained relationships proactively
- Trades short-term wins for long-term partnership
- What was your share of the badness?
- What did you actually do to repair it?
- Where is it now?
- Give me a live example.
- What's your rhythm of contact?
- How did you frame the no?
- What did you offer instead?
Systematic Execution
- Workflow is improvised daily
- Details slip; records lag reality
- Volume causes chaos rather than rhythm
- Runs a visible, repeatable system
- Documentation is current without being asked
- High volume raises throughput, not error rates
- What system kept it accurate?
- What was your error rate, honestly?
- What happened when volume spiked?
- What survives when the day goes sideways?
- How do you make sure nothing entering your queue gets lost?
- What problem did it solve?
- Did it stick after you moved on?
Situational Insight
- Misses shifts in tone and intent
- Assumes silence means agreement
- Surprised by outcomes others saw coming
- Notices what is said and what is avoided
- Tests hypotheses about the other side's position
- Anticipates objections before they surface
- What tipped you off?
- What did you do with the read?
- How did you surface it?
- Were you right?
- What did you miss?
- What do you watch for now?
Problem Solving
- Applies the standard fix whether or not it fits
- Firefights symptoms and leaves causes intact
- Gives up when the manual runs out
- Diagnoses before prescribing
- Generates several options and tests the best
- Enjoys problems nobody has solved yet
- How did you take it apart?
- What options did you generate before choosing?
- How did you know it worked?
- What led you astray?
- How did you catch it?
- What questions do you ask?
- When do you involve others?
Discovery & Qualification
- Meetings ramble without an agenda or goal
- Accepts vague answers and moves on
- Invests equally in good and hopeless prospects
- Comes with a structured line of questions
- Probes until answers are concrete
- Disqualifies fast and reinvests the time
- Which answer most often disqualifies?
- What do you do with a vague answer?
- What was the signal in each case?
- What did the miss cost?
- Show me with a recent example.
- What if the other side hijacks the agenda?
Direct Dialogue low score — probe carefully
- Goes quiet in meetings and vents in private afterward
- Lets small frictions accumulate into resentments
- Concedes quickly just to end the discomfort
- Raises the issue with the person involved, early and calmly
- Separates the problem from the person
- Negotiates toward a resolution both sides can accept
- How did you open that conversation?
- What was the hardest moment in it?
- Where did the relationship land?
- What was the cost of the delay?
- What would you do sooner next time?
- Give me a concrete recent case.
- How far do you push before accepting the call?