Name: SHL Platform
Rating: 4.3 (20 reviews)

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Updated 15th June 2023

What is SHL Platform?

SHL's Talent Management solution provides people insights to businesses at a organizational, team and individual level. Through scientifically-backed workforce data and highly validated talent solutions, organizations can optimally leverage their people's potential and maximize business outcomes. SHL's platform brings all talent data into a single-source, making it easier to improve employee engagement and performance, make faster people decisions, and accelerate diversity, to help create an inclusive culture that supports business agility. SHL's real-time talent insights and analytics, enable you to: Develop and retain your critical talent by measuring competencies across the entire organization. Target your leaders for development with transactional, transformational and network capabilities. Find your Highest Potential (HIPO) employees. Use a scientific approach to build your best sales teams. Increase the accuracy of your succession planning.

Overall experience with SHL Platform

HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

FAVORABLE

“Visually Intuitive Platform Allows Flexible Setup Despite Perceived Testing Rigor”

4.0

Feb 9, 2026

Platform is really good looking, intuitive and well designed

DIRECTOR OF SALES

<50M USD, Services (non-Government)

CRITICAL

“Solid for assessments, not so much for candidate management”

3.0

Jul 10, 2025

Solid for Assessments, not so much for candidate management. Some of our clients use SHL mainly for assessments, their psychometric tests are strong and reliable. But once you move into candidate management, in my opinion it wasn't build with recruiters in mind

About Company

Company Description

SHL is a global Talent Insight provider, helping businesses leverage the power of people, science, and technology. With scientifically-backed workforce data and highly validated talent solutions, SHL provides organizations with the insights needed to optimally leverage their people’s potential and maximize business outcomes. SHL equips recruiters and leaders with people insights at an organization, team, and individual level to meet strategic goals with informed decision-making, talent mobility, and building an inclusive culture that supports agility.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1977

Head office location

Thames Ditton, United Kingdom

Number of employees

2500 - 4999

Website

https://shl.com

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SHL Platform Likes & Dislikes

It can be set up for your exact needs, depending on the employee type you would like to test and to make a perfect match.

Support is responsive, and as I said, psychometric tests are amazing

SHL uses psychometric research in which the assessments are scientifically designed, validated and regularly reviewed, so organizations can trust that their measure what they claim. In SHL, we have various types of assessments such as personality, cognitive skills, and simulations - which lets the organization cover different angles. SHL works well for high volume hiring, handling many candidate evaluations per month in different geographies. They also provide virtual assessment/development centers and simulation tests, which help with remote or distributed hiring.

I can't find anything really disliked in this product, some people may think tests are too demanding, but it is something you can adjust on a company basis.

UI is not great, workflows does not feel smooth and reporting is limited

The time given for some sections, especially for numerical and logical reasoning is unrealistically short. The stress of rushing can lead to mistakes even if the person has the ability to perform. After completing the test, many candidates report not receiving sufficient feedback to understand what went wrong or how they could improve. If the content is very language heavy or assumes native level fluency, non-native speakers may be at a disadvantage unless extra time or practice is available.

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Recommended Gartner Insights

<50M USD

Services (non-Government)

Review Source

Visually Intuitive Platform Allows Flexible Setup Despite Perceived Testing Rigor

Sales Manager

50M-1B USD

IT Services

SHL Assessment Platform Handles High Volume Hiring But Feedback Remains Limited

5.0

Sep 16, 2025

The platform is reliable, with standardized tests and its tools are well suited for integrating into recruitment workflows. Using SHL to hire candidates allows assessing large number of candidates efficiently, especially with AI powered or situational judgement tests.

IT SERVICE ENGINEER

Telecommunication

Decent platform with potential but limited hands on experience

Sep 11, 2025

My experience was limited, but from what i did explore it looks well structured and it has useful features. the interface is nice, modern

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

1B-10B USD

Manufacturing

Effective Assessment Tools With Room for Improvement in Data Driven Insights

Sep 9, 2025

SHL is a well-established provider of talent assessment and candidate relationship management solutions.

IT Associate

Retail

SHL Platform Simplifies Talent Search With Web App For HR Professionals

Aug 21, 2025

SHL is a platform that offers HR talent search services thru a simple strategy: find the best people for the job, this is done thru a web based app that combines different HR needs and provides easy to read results