Blackstone is using Pymetrics as its major pre-employment screening tool, in a two-stage assessment process:
In the following guide, we’ll go over each of these stages, why Blackstone uses them, and how to best prepare yourself.
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The Pymetrics Test or Pymetrics Assessment is a collection of 12 online games designed to assess 91 cognitive, social, and behavioral traits.
Similar to other gamefied assessments, like HireVue, this AI-based games are quickly gaining popularity in the pre-employment testing world, especially in the finance, banking, and consulting industries.
Below you will find a brief description of these games.
Blackstone uses the 12 standard Pymetrics Games as the first stage of its screening process:
Want to learn more about the Pymetrics Assessment? Check out the Complete Pymetrics Test Guide!
Like many employers in the finance industry, Blackstone is a very lucrative employer with high demand and low acceptance rates. According to Business Insider, the average acceptance rate for an analyst position at Blackstone is around 0.5%.
As such, Blackstone incorporates Pymetrics as an online assessment tool to substantially narrow down the candidate pool.
Cruel, but effective.
That question really depends on the position you apply to.
The 12 Pymetrics Games measure around 90 traits in 9 categories:
When taking the Pymetrics Assessment with Blackstone (and when preparing from them), think of the position you are after and what combination of traits would be best for it.
Each game on the Pymetrics Test assesses a different combination of these trait categories, so your performance on the games should be accordingly.
Here are three examples:
Here are the two most common misconceptions about Blackstone’s Pymetrics Assessment:
Firstly, the games on the Pymetrics Assessment are anything but simple. On the surface, they may appear plain, but a sophisticated AI algorithm operates behind the scenes, monitoring and recording your every action to create your profile for Blackstone.
Secondly, Pymetrics is an assessment tool, so while there are indeed no “right answers” in the traditional meaning, there are definitely more suitable outcomes for playing the games.
If you successfully pass the Pymetrics Games, you will be requested to take the Pymetrics Interview. It is a one-way digital interview (similar to HireVue), in which you are presented with pre-recorded interview questions and record your response.
The actual questions on your interview may differ between jobs, but since Pymetrics aims to create a standard interview structure for all candidates, you can expect many similar questions in the video interviews.
Here are several questions you may be asked in the Pymetrics Interview:
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