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SHL Platform

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4.3
Market Presence: Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Talent Analytics

Overview

Product Information on SHL Platform

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.

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Overall experience with SHL Platform

Sales Manager
250M - 500M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“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.
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

Updated 13th October 2023

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

Updated 26th February 2025
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

Like

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.

Like

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

Like

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.

Dislike

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.

Dislike

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

Dislike

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.

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Peer Discussions

SHL Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(20 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
15%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.2

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • Sales Manager
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    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.
  • HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST
    <50M USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Visually Intuitive Platform Allows Flexible Setup Despite Perceived Testing Rigor

    4.0
    Feb 9, 2026
    Platform is really good looking, intuitive and well designed
  • IT SERVICE ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Decent platform with potential but limited hands on experience

    4.0
    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
  • IT Associate
    50M-1B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    SHL Platform Simplifies Talent Search With Web App For HR Professionals

    5.0
    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
  • BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Effective Assessment Tools With Room for Improvement in Data Driven Insights

    4.0
    Sep 9, 2025
    SHL is a well-established provider of talent assessment and candidate relationship management solutions.
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