What is a skills assessment form?

A structured way to find out what a team can actually do, as opposed to what the job descriptions say. The useful version combines a self-rating with questions that demonstrate the skill, because the two rarely agree.

How do I score a skills assessment?

Use a score variable per skill area rather than one overall total. A single number averages a strong area and a weak one into something that tells you nothing about what to book.

Should skills assessments be anonymous?

No, because the point is to arrange training for specific people. But be clear up front that it is for development rather than performance management, or you will get optimistic answers.

How often should we run a skills assessment?

Annually, or when a role changes. More often and you are measuring faster than training can move the number.

Is this skills assessment form template free?

Yes. Use it, publish it and collect answers on the free plan with no card. Paid plans add things like payments, scheduling, removing our badge and your own domain, but none of them are needed to run this form.

Do I need an account to use it?

You need one to edit and publish, because the form has to live somewhere and the answers have to come back to you. Signing up takes about a minute and does not ask for a card. The people filling your form in never need an account.

Can I change the questions?

All of them. The template is a starting point, not a fixed form: add, remove, reword and reorder anything, change the look, and use logic so people only see the questions that apply to them.

Can I put it on my own website?

Yes. Embed it in a page you already have, or share the link. On a paid plan you can serve it from your own domain so the address says your name rather than ours.

Where do the answers go?

Into your dashboard, where you can read, search and export them as CSV. You can also have each response emailed to you, pushed to another tool with a webhook, or sent to a connected integration.

How long does this form take to fill in?

About 2 minutes as it stands, across 5 questions. Every question you cut brings that down, and shorter forms get finished more often.

Quizzes & assessments

Skills assessment

For onboarding, training needs or annual reviews. Each rating contributes to a total, and the ending explains what that total means.

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Questions: 5
Takes about: 2 min
Style: One page
Scoring: Built in

Free, no card. It lands in your workspace as an editable draft.

Worth knowing

The welcome screen and the intro text above the first question carry example turnaround times, policies and promises. Rewrite them as yours before you publish — they are the part respondents take literally.

What's in it

Skills assessment
Welcome screen
How this is used Your answers go to whoever arranges training, not into your file · The re…
Rich text
1
Your name*
Short text
2
How comfortable are you with the tools the team uses day to day?*
I'd need training · I can get by · Confident · I teach others
Multiple choice
3
How well do you know our process end to end?*
Only my part · My part and what's next to it · Most of it · All of it
Multiple choice
4
How often do you need help to finish a task?*
Most tasks · Unfamiliar ones · Rarely · Almost never
Multiple choice
5
What training would help most?
Long text
Advanced
Ending
Developing
Ending
Getting started
Ending

How to use this template

Open it as a draft
Press "Use this template" and it lands in your workspace as an editable form with all 5 questions already in it. No card, and nothing is published until you say so.
Cut what you do not need
Every question you remove is one fewer reason to abandon the form. It takes about 2 minutes to fill in as it stands, and that is the number worth protecting.
Add from the question bank
Pick what you are missing from the questions below. Drag any of them in, change the wording, and use conditional logic so people only see the ones that apply to them. Scoring is already set up, so new questions can feed it.
Share it, or put it on your own site
Publish to get a link, or embed it in a page you already have. Answers arrive in your dashboard, and you can send them on to anywhere else with a webhook or an integration.

32 skills assessment form questions to choose from

A skills assessment is useful when it changes what training gets booked. If the output is a score nobody acts on, you have run a test rather than an assessment.

Separate self-rating from demonstrated ability. They diverge more than anybody expects, and the gap is the interesting part.

Self-assessment

How would you rate your confidence with this? (1 to 5)
How often do you use this skill in your work?
When did you last do this unsupervised?
Would you be comfortable teaching it to someone else?
What part of it do you find hardest?
Where do you go when you get stuck?
What would you like to be better at?
What training have you had on this?

Demonstrating it

Which of these is the correct approach?
What would you do first in this situation?
Spot the mistake in this example.
Put these steps in the right order.
Which of these is a red flag?
What is the policy in this case?
Which tool would you use and why?
Explain this to someone who has never done it.

Role context

What is your job title?
Which team are you in?
How long have you been in this role?
How long have you been with the company?
Who is your manager?
Which of these tasks are part of your job?
Which do you do most often?
Is your role changing in the next six months?

What happens next

Which areas would you most like training in?
What format suits you? (Course, shadowing, reading, on the job)
How much time could you give to it?
Is there something blocking you from improving?
Would you mentor someone else in an area you are strong in?
Would you like to discuss this with your manager?
Is there a skill you have that your role does not use?
Anything else we should know?

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