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BUILT FOR CNC MACHINIST HIRING

Hire the Machinist Who Can Hold the Tolerance — Not the One Who Interviews Well.

Know before you make the offer — not three months in. Test the claims on the resume in 30 minutes: CNC experience, tolerances held, machines run. Plus a Behaviour Score that shows how they'll work on your floor.

3 free assessments. No card required.
ASSESSMENT — CNC MACHINISTLIVE
"5+ years CNC experience"TESTING THE CLAIM
Section 2.1 — Tool Offset Compensation
A 12mm end mill measures 11.94mm after wear. Which G-code adjustment correctly compensates the radial offset?
G41 D03 with offset −0.03
G42 D03 with offset +0.03
G40 cancel and re-touch
G43 H03 with offset −0.06
This is what a resume claim actually looks like once we test it. Real shop-floor judgement — not trivia.
You've Been Burned Before

The Real Cost of a Bad Manufacturing Hire

Until now, every new machinist you hired was a roll of the dice. The resume said five years on CNC. He talked the talk in the interview — knew the lingo, nodded in the right places. You shook his hand thinking, finally, someone who gets it.

Three weeks later, a $4,000 forging is scrap on the floor. The tolerance was out by half a mil and nobody caught it until final inspection.

Now you're on the phone explaining to a customer why their parts are late. Again.

The other blokes on the floor knew inside a week he couldn't do what his resume said. You found out three weeks and one ruined job too late.

Less Than $120 to Avoid a Bad Hire

You're not just trusting a resume. You're handing someone the keys to a machine that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars — and everything downstream if they can't actually run it.

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Training timeWeeks spent training and supervising someone who was never going to work out.2–4 WEEKS LOST
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Production timeA machine sitting idle — or worse, running badly — while a new hire figures out what they claimed to already know.DAYS OF DOWNTIME
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Team moraleThe rest of the floor absorbing the slack, and the frustration that comes with covering for someone who can't pull their weight.WEEKS OF COVERING
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Customer relationshipsLate orders, quality issues, and the trust that's hard to win back once it's gone.REPEAT WORK AT RISK
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Equipment riskAn inexperienced or unqualified operator on precision equipment isn't a small risk — it's scrapped stock, damaged tooling, or worse.THOUSANDS IN SCRAP
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Starting overThe search, the cost, and the time — all over again.THE SEARCH STARTS OVER
Beyond the Skill Test

A Skill Score Isn't the Whole Picture

A candidate can hold every tolerance you throw at them and still not last on your floor — can't take direction, checks out under deadline pressure, or works badly with the rest of the team.

Skill tells you if they can do the job. Behaviour tells you if they'll last in it.

Every assessment includes a behaviour score alongside the technical score — built from real manufacturing scenarios, not generic office personality questions. It shows how they handle repetitive precision work, deadline pressure, and working inside a team.

Behaviour ScoreCNC MACHINIST
Precision DisciplinePRECISION & SAFETY
Pressure ResponseDEADLINE PRESSURE
Team CollaborationSHOP FLOOR TEAMWORK
AdaptabilityNEW EQUIPMENT & PROCESS
Work StyleINDEPENDENT VS CREW
Read alongside the skill score — so you know not just whether they can run the machine, but how they'll actually work on your floor.
The Dream Outcome

Imagine Hiring With Zero Guesswork

Not a better hiring process. Hiring without the risk.

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You already know before they arrive

Every candidate shows up pre-verified. You already know exactly what they can and can't do.

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You find out before the floor does

No more discovering the gap three weeks in, mid-job, on a machine you can't afford to have idle.

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You hire faster, with more certainty

Never gamble on a resume again. Move on a candidate the moment you know they can actually do the job.

That's hiring without the risk.

The Mechanism

If It's On Their Resume, We Test It

Candidates claim skills. We turn every claim into a real, role-specific test built from actual shop-floor procedures — not generic trivia.

Built by a team with a decade of hands-on CAD/CAM experience across 1,000+ ANZ manufacturing shop floors — not a content writer who read a manual.

"CNC experience"TESTED
Which G-code adjustment correctly compensates a worn tool's radial offset?
What it really checks: real compensation judgement, not the definition of a G-code.
"Reads Orthographic Drawings"TESTED
Given this drawing, which surface should be your primary datum for this setup?
What it really checks: real setup judgement, not just the ability to name the symbols.
"GD&T knowledge"TESTED
Given this tolerance stack, which datum should be called out first?
What it really checks: whether they can actually spec a tolerance stack, not just recite the symbols.

A resume tells you what they say. We tell you what's true.

How It Works

Three Steps From Resume to Certainty

FROM RESUME TO CERTAINTY IN UNDER AN HOUR

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Pick the role

CNC Machinist, Sheet Metal Fabricator, or Mechanical Design Engineer (with CAD skills verification) — set the seniority level.

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Send the assessment

Candidate completes it from anywhere, in about 30 minutes — technical skill test plus a fit profile built from real shop-floor scenarios. No scheduling, no supervision needed.

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Get a verified score

Pass/fail skill breakdown alongside a fit profile — before you've spent an hour interviewing someone who can't do the job, or won't last in it.

Try It Free

No Card. No Risk. Just Certainty.

  • 3 free assessments when you sign up — enough to verify your next hire, skill and fit, before you commit to anything.
  • No credit card. No sales call. No commitment.
  • See exactly what a real assessment and fit profile look like before you decide if it's for you.
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Your Next Hire Doesn't Have to Be a Gamble

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