About this site

I built Train for the Job because of a pattern I got tired of watching.

Strong candidates would get cut at the testing stage. Not because they could not have done the job, but because they had never seen an aptitude test before and had no real idea what it was measuring. Someone else, who happened to have spent an afternoon practicing the same format, would get through comfortably. The difference between those two people often had very little to do with who would have been better at the work.

That gap is not hard to close. A few hours with the formats is usually enough. But very few candidates are told this, because the companies running the tests have no particular reason to mention it.

So that is what this site is for. Practice questions in the formats employers actually use, and guides that explain what each test is looking for.

I still work in the field. Putting my name on this would make things awkward with current and former employers, and I would rather write plainly about how hiring works than write carefully.

Nothing else about the site is hidden. The privacy policy sets out what data is collected and why, and the contact page has an address that reaches me directly.

It will not help you cheat an assessment. The tests measure real things, and no amount of practice turns a weak numerical reasoner into a strong one.

What practice does is remove the part of your result that comes from unfamiliarity rather than ability. From what I have seen, that is a meaningful part of it, and it is the part you have any control over.

It is also not a guarantee. Plenty of well-prepared candidates do not get the job for reasons that have nothing to do with the assessment stage.