Take the guesswork out of hiring

Hiring and developing great people isn’t just about experience, it’s about how someone is wired to work. McQuaig gives you practical insight into behaviour, motivation, and ability so you can make more consistent hiring decisions, support employee development, and build teams that perform.

Whether you’re scaling your team or strengthening performance, it’s a simpler way to bring clarity to every people decision.

What Talent Blindspots Can McQuaig Help Solve?

Hiring and development don’t usually break in obvious ways. It shows up in slower ramp-up, inconsistent decisions, or teams that don’t quite click.

McQuaig works with senior leaders and managers who are growing but are frustrated with an inconsistent unstructured approach to talent decisions across the employee lifecycle which causes gaps in:

Pre-hire misalignment: Teams are often unaligned when defining what success in a role looks like before hiring begins

Weak hiring: Leaders rely too heavily on gut instinct and resumes rather than using data to truly understand a candidate's strengths and weaknesses before an offer is made

Too many surprises: Candidates don't always show up at work the way they do in an interview, leading to a lack of early productivity and higher turnover

Slow onboarding: Without a personalized approach to learning and onboarding, it takes too long for new hires to integrate and find their footing

Ineffective management support: Managers don't always have the right customized tools and approach they need to coach their teams and drive growth

Weak team dynamics: Many teams lack insight into how the members work best both together and individually, leading to potential conflict and lost productivity

The result of these gaps is more disconnect, a less intentional approach to building teams, and a decrease in productivity. McQuaig tools help address these issues at every level of the employee lifecycle.

Who are we?

As a Canadian company with over 50 years of experience, we believe better people decisions lead to better business outcomes. We’ve spent decades helping organizations understand what truly drives performance, beyond resumes and interviews, so they can build stronger, more consistent teams.

Our approach is grounded in practical behavioural insight, supported by technology. We focus on how people are naturally wired to work and give you the tools to better understand candidates and employees before you hire, develop, or promote them.

We value simplicity, consistency, and real-world application. That means providing assessments that are easy to use, backed by research, and designed to support better decisions at every stage of the employee lifecycle.

Assess key cognitive abilities including mathematical reasoning, verbal fluency, comprehension, analytical thinking, and spatial relations.

Gain reliable insights into how well candidates can process information, solve problems, and learn new skills - crucial predictors of job performance.

Create benchmarks by testing high-performing employees to establish a standard for future candidates, ensuring a fit for the role and your organizational culture.

Developed in compliance with guidelines from human rights regulatory bodies like the EEOC, ensuring a fair, unbiased assessment process.

For best results, use in combination with the McQuaig Word Survey® and McQuaig Job Survey®, providing a 360-degree view of candidate suitability.

The McQuaig Job Survey helps you define what success looks like in a role before you start hiring. It creates a clear benchmark based on input from your team. You can then use that benchmark to evaluate candidates more consistently and confidently.

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The McQuaig Word Survey helps you understand a person’s natural work style and how they are likely to behave on the job. It highlights strengths, communication style, and potential challenges. You can use these insights to support better hiring, coaching, and development decisions.

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The McQuaig Agility Test measures a person’s ability to learn, think, and solve problems. It provides insight into how quickly someone can process information and adapt to new challenges. You can use these results to understand potential and make more informed hiring decisions.

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The McQuaig Self-Development Survey helps individuals understand their strengths, motivations, and areas for growth. It provides insight into how they approach their work and where they can improve. You can use these insights to support personal development, coaching, and career growth.

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The McQuaig 360 Leadership Review provides anonymous feedback from managers, peers, and direct reports to give a clear view of performance. It highlights strengths, development areas, and how someone is perceived by others. You can use these insights to guide coaching and strengthen team effectiveness.

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TeamSync helps you understand how team members work together and where gaps or friction may exist. It highlights differences in communication, work style, and expectations across the team. You can use these insights to improve collaboration, strengthen alignment, and build more effective teams.

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McQuaig Maven

Where assessment meets AI

McQuaig Maven brings assessment insight and AI together to make people decisions faster and easier. With Maven you can interact with your assessment data the way you would ChatGPT but in a safe and private environment. It helps you interpret results, surface key insights, and get clear guidance without needing to be an expert. Maven supports quicker, more confident hiring and development decisions backed by data.

Use Maven to:

Break down assessment results into clear takeaways

Identify key strengths and potential risks in seconds

Understand candidate and employee fit more quickly

Create personalized onboarding or development plans

Support stronger manager-employee conversations

And so much more

The Science Behind Better People Decisions

McQuaig is grounded in decades of validated research designed to improve the accuracy of people decisions. Our assessments measure behaviour and cognitive ability, helping you understand how someone will perform on the job, not just how they interview.

By matching a person’s natural temperament to the demands of the role, McQuaig helps you make more consistent, fair, and predictive hiring and onboarding decisions.

What sets our science apart:

Over 50 years of applied research in workplace psychology

Measures four behavioural domains linked to performance and job fit

Grounded in established personality frameworks, including the Big Five

Reliability scores at or above .70, meeting industry standards

Evidence of predictive validity across multiple roles and industries

Designed to be fair, with no evidence of adverse impact across demographic groups

The result is a clearer, more confident way to hire, onboard, and develop people who will succeed.

What is the McQuaig Way?

McQuaig helps organizations build a consistent, scalable approach to talent using science-backed assessments. As the future of work reshapes how teams are built and supported, our tools give leaders and hiring managers the clarity to make better decisions and create stronger onboarding experiences. The result is faster integration, better alignment, and teams that perform at a higher level. With McQuaig, organizations can confidently build high-performing teams that adapt and grow with the future of work.

Assessments can support you at every stage of the employee lifecycle, not just hiring. They help you make more informed decisions and give managers clear direction on how to support their teams.

You can use assessments to:

Identify candidates who are the right fit for the role and team
Guide more structured, effective interviews
Improve onboarding by tailoring it to how someone works
Support employee development with clear strengths and focus areas
Strengthen team dynamics and communication
Plan succession and develop future leaders

In short, assessments help you move from guesswork to more consistent, data-backed people decisions.

McQuaig helps you make stronger hiring decisions by giving you clear insight into how someone will actually perform in the role. Instead of relying on instinct or resumes alone, you can assess behavioural fit, cognitive ability, and alignment with the team.

It starts by defining what success looks like in the role before hiring begins, then assesses each candidate’s natural behaviours against those requirements. Along the way, it highlights strengths and potential risks early, provides structured, behaviour-based interview questions, and helps hiring managers make more consistent, objective decisions.

The result is better-fit hires who ramp up faster, perform more effectively, and stay longer.

McQuaig supports onboarding by giving hiring managers clear insight into how a new hire works, so they can tailor the experience from day one. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, onboarding becomes more targeted, practical, and aligned to the individual.

It shows how a new hire prefers to communicate, learn, and work, while highlighting strengths and areas that may need support early on. Managers get guidance on how to coach and motivate effectively, and teams gain a better understanding of how to integrate and collaborate with the new hire. This creates a more structured, personalized onboarding experience from the start.

The result is faster integration, stronger engagement, and better performance from day one.

McQuaig supports employee development by giving managers and employees clear, practical insight into strengths, working style, and areas for growth. This makes development more focused and easier to act on.

It helps identify natural strengths and development opportunities, while providing personalized coaching and communication tips. It also guides goal setting and development planning, supports more effective performance conversations, and helps managers adapt their leadership style to each employee.

The result is more engaged employees, stronger performance, and development plans that actually lead to growth.

McQuaig supports leadership development by helping organizations understand how leaders naturally think, communicate, and make decisions. This insight makes it easier to develop leaders in a way that’s practical and personalized.

It identifies leadership strengths and potential gaps, while providing targeted coaching and development guidance. It also highlights how leaders impact team performance and culture, supports more effective communication and decision-making, and guides succession planning and future leader identification.

The result is more self-aware leaders who can adapt, lead effectively, and drive stronger team performance.

Having an AI assistant makes McQuaig assessments easier to use by turning insight into clear, actionable guidance in real time. Instead of interpreting reports on your own, you get quick answers and direction when you need it.

It explains assessment results in simple, practical terms, answers questions instantly without extra training, and suggests interview questions, onboarding tips, or coaching actions. It also helps managers apply insights to real situations while saving time by reducing manual interpretation and guesswork.

The result is faster decisions, more confident managers, and better use of assessment data across hiring, onboarding, and development.

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Actionable Outcomes
Focused on the Great Eight Competencies

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Actionable Outcomes

Receive specific, actionable feedback to enhance leadership behaviors and team dynamics.

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Focused on the Great Eight Competencies

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Take the guesswork out of hiring

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Key Features

Comprehensive Cognitive Evaluation

Predictive Performance Insights

Benchmarking Excellence

Professional and Compliant

Synergistic Integration

How Do McQuaig Assessments Work?

McQuaig Maven

Where assessment meets AI

The Science Behind Better People Decisions

What is the McQuaig Way?

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