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Reveal the Invisible: Measure the critical human skills that resumes simply can’t show.
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Jemma Maddox
Shortlist
- Displaying Initiative 77%
- Working with Words 80%
- Listening to Others 96%
- Coping with Pressure 56%
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Taylor Wilson
Longlist
- Displaying Initiative 20%
- Working with Words 31%
- Listening to Others 43%
- Coping with Pressure 82%
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Explore candidates true depth of potential with actionable human skills data
Explore candidates true depth of potential with actionable human skills data
Like experience and education, technical skills are easy to see on a CV. But what truly predicts someone’s success or failure as an Administration Assistant within your organisation are the core capabilities underneath. The ‘how’ they get work done, not just the ‘what’ they know.
In fact, according to Schmidt & Hunter, Job Experience, Education and Reference Checks combined, account for just 14% of predicted hiring success.
How you define and measure these far more important capabilities, in an objective and scalable way, is where AbilityMap steps in.
The critical soft skills for an Administration Assistant you can’t spot on a resume
The first step is to quickly and accurately identify the core capabilities, or the required soft skills for an Administration Assistant to succeed in your team.
What makes someone a high performing Administration Assistant in one organisation does not necessarily mean they will succeed in yours. Every organisation is unique.
AbilityMap understands this, and provides you with a tool to create a bespoke Administration Assistant Role Profile for your unique environment.
To get you started though, we’ve used data from O*NET interpreted by our organisational psychologists, to create a library profile for an Administration Assistant that outlines 8 capabilities generally required for success.
Administration Assistant
1. Displaying Initiative
2. Working with Words
3. Listening to Others
4. Coping with Pressure
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AbilityMap can help you hire an Administration Assistant quickly, with confidence
"Faethm found the AbilityMap platform so important it became a mandated and core part of all hiring."
Michael Priddis Founder and CEO, Faethm
Reveal true candidate capabilities
Discover who has the innate ability to perform well in your team.
Reduce time-to-hire significantly
Quickly create your shortlist by comparing candidate strengths side by side.
Make the right hire every time
Get data-driven insights into who to interview, and what to ask them.
How to hire a top Administration Assistant with AbilityMap
A proven, scalable, capability-led approach to hiring your next employee.
1. Create a profile
Use our library profile, or create a bespoke profile to act as the blueprint.
2. Assess candidates
Invite an unlimited number of candidates to complete their online capability assessment.
3. See who fits
Discover clear insights into who will succeed as an Administration Assistant in your business.
Go beyond the role: hire for culture and potential
Finding a capable Administration Assistant is the immediate priority. But a truly strategic hire fits both the role and your organisation’s unique DNA.
An AbilityMap capability assessment is not a one-time report; it provides a foundational “Imprint” of a candidate’s potential. Once you have this objective data, you can instantly re-screen your entire talent pool against any other profile you create:
Build your culture profile
Objectively define your company culture as a unique capability profile. This gives you a secondary lens by which to compare candidates against your team’s innate way of working.
Identify career pathways
Map your Administration Assistant candidates against other role Profiles within your business. This allows you to instantly see their potential for upward promotion or lateral movement within your organisation, helping you to keep your business agile and build your succession pipeline from day one.
Interview questions to ask an Administration Assistant
Stop asking generic questions and start validating role-specific capabilities
Asking an Administration Assistant “What is your greatest weakness?” tells you nothing about their ability to perform the job. To get better data out of your interview process, you must ask questions that directly target the core capabilities that predict success for this specific role.
But how do you know what to ask?
Once armed with your bespoke Administration Assistant Role Profile, AbilityMap provides 8 capability-specific interview questions for each candidate, empowering you to use the interview to validate their fit against that profile and keep your interviews structured and fair.
Need help asking capability-based interview questions? Our free handbook includes best-practice interview questions for our entire 31-point Capability Framework. Download it to see the types of questions you should be asking.
The true cost of a bad hire
A bad hire is far more than a single wasted salary. It is a persistent drain on your organisation’s most valuable resources. Before you make your next hiring decision based on a CV or ‘gut-feel’, consider the real cost:
- It drains your team’s morale: Nothing demotivates your high-performing staff faster than having to carry a colleague who cannot perform. This creates resentment and increases your turnover risk.
- It consumes your managers’ time: Every hour a manager spends correcting errors, mediating conflict, or managing a poor performer is an hour not spent on coaching, strategy, or profitable activities.
- It damages your reputation: Inconsistent performance and high employee turnover impact your team’s culture, your brand’s external reputation, and the quality of your customer relationships.
Get the capability insights you need to hire your next Administration Assistant
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from a personality test like Myers-Briggs or DiSC?
Will candidates actually complete this? We lose people with long assessments.
Why is this better than just reading a CV and conducting an interview?
What is the AbilityMap Capability Framework based on?
My role is slightly different. Can I change the Profile?
Yes. This Administration Assistant library profile is a robust, validated starting point based on data. However, within the AbilityMap platform, you can easily adjust the importance of each capability to create a custom “Success Profile” that perfectly matches the unique needs of your specific role and environment. In fact, we recommend you do!
Do I need to be a psychologist to understand the reports?
How does AbilityMap help me interview my candidates?
AbilityMap transforms your interview. For each candidate, our platform instantly generates 8 capability-specific interview questions tailored to their unique profile. This stops you from asking generic, “gut feel” questions and empowers you to run a structured, data-driven interview where you can validate their fit for the role.
What happens after the assessment?
The candidate’s assessment provides a foundational “Imprint” of their potential. This one assessment gives you objective data you can use for:
- Strategic Onboarding: Know their innate strengths and development areas from day one.
- Team Building: Map the new hire’s capabilities against your existing team to understand dynamics and improve collaboration.
- Succession Planning: Identify high-potential individuals and map their readiness for future leadership roles across the business.
- Guiding Organisational Change: Before a strategic pivot, you can objectively understand your organisation’s capability gaps and manage change more effectively.
AbilityMap is far more than a hiring tool. It’s one assessment that provides lasting, actionable insights for your entire workforce.
About AbilityMap
Traditional hiring is flawed. Relying on CVs and interviews alone is unreliable, subjective, and a poor predictor of on-the-job success.
AbilityMap was built to fix this. Founded by organisational psychologists, our platform provides a science-backed, measurable way to evaluate human potential. We give you objective, data-driven insights to mitigate bias, hire with confidence, and unlock the full potential of your workforce.
