17th September 2025 2 MIN READ
Together, Talos360 and Big 5 are giving businesses the confidence to hire right, the first time, every time.
Continuing its commitment to helping businesses attract, hire, onboard and develop the best talent, Talos360, has partnered with Big 5 Assessments, bringing more pre-employment psychometric assessment tools to its autonomous hiring software, Talos ATS.
Integrating Big 5 Assessments’ simple and holistic ‘top-of-funnel’ candidate assessments into the Talos360’s applicant tracking system, enables internal talent teams to look beyond the limitations of the CV and provide the tools they need to make smarter, data-driven hiring decisions.
Talos360 partners with Big 5 Assessments
Big 5 Assessments is leading the way in evidence-based, psychology-driven candidate assessments, helping internal hiring teams access data-backed insights early in the recruitment process enabling better hiring decisions.
With various psychometric tests available, Big 5 Assessments can support businesses in choosing the right hire, first time with their science-based tests, evaluating key personality traits such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability,
Big 5’s personality/job-fit assessments offer clients a clear insight into the job suitability of all candidates by comparing them with job-fit competency benchmarks, allowing employers to quickly evaluate applicants, identify the best-fit candidates, and reduce the time wasted on unsuitable applications.
With unlimited assessments, ready-to-use job-fit benchmarks, and hiring-manager friendly reports, Big 5 makes it easy to streamline decision-making and focus on connecting with the most suitable candidates for any given role.
“Talos360 exists to help businesses hire right the first time. By partnering with Big 5 Assessments, we are enabling organisations to look beyond CVs and leverage data-driven insights, ensuring every hiring decision supports stronger teams, better performance, and long-term retention.”
Jon Ryder, Head of Partnerships, Talos360
The future of skills-based hiring
As the job market continues to prove tough for candidates, many employers are facing a wave of applications per open role. This has paved the way for a new skills-based hiring approach, which has quickly become the preferred hiring strategy for many senior HR professionals.
Together, with Talos360’s AI-powered ATS and Big 5’s comprehensive psychometric assessments, internal recruitment teams can adopt a more efficient skills based hiring approach, for a smarter way of hiring.
- Identify top-of-funnel talent – effortlessly identify high-potential candidates without spending valuable time screening hundreds of CVs.
- Hiring Objective insights – reduce recruitment bias and support a fairer hiring process, progressing candidates based on scores instead of ‘gut feeling’.
- Better retention and performance outcomes – identify and focus on candidates most likely to succeed and stay at your organisation.
- Seamless integration – access Big 5’s powerful assessments directly within Talos360’s AI-powered applicant tracking system.
“We’re delighted to partner with Talos360. By integrating our science-based psychometric assessments with Talos360’s AI-powered ATS, we can help hiring teams unlock deeper insights, reduce bias, and ultimately make better hires the first time around.”
Nigel Newman, Director & Founder at Big 5 Assessments
Why Big 5 Assessments
A unique and exciting part of Big 5’s offering is their attitudes to the workplace and accurate personality assessment. Both psychometric assessments provide employers with a risk scale on aspects such reliability, hostility, computer misuse and integrity – all vital information to have to hand when determining if candidates are suitable for secure employment.
A better way to hire
Talos360’s partnership with Big 5 Assessments ensures businesses can make confident hiring decisions that are faster and backed by data, saving valuable time, while improving long-term hiring success.
