In an era marked by rapid technological advancement and shifting job market expectations, ETS (Educational Testing Service) is doubling down on its mission to shape the global workforce. Today, the organisation formally announces its Global Employability Test (GET) 2025, a pioneering online assessment aimed at equipping candidates and institutions with clear insights into workplace readiness, skill gaps, and future potential.
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A New Chapter in ETS’s Workforce Strategy
ETS, perhaps best known for creating benchmark tests like TOEFL, GRE, and Praxis, is strategically extending its influence into employability metrics via its India‑based subsidiary, Wheebox ETS. The Global Employability Test, originally launched as the Wheebox National Employability Test over a decade ago, has evolved into a cornerstone of ETS’s ambition to bring evidence-based evaluation to workforce skills and employability.
The release of GET 2025 coincides with the observance of World Youth Skills Day, underscoring ETS’s vision of bridging the gap between academic qualifications and employability, especially vital in an era where rapid upskilling has become imperative.
What Makes GET 2025 Stand Out?
At the heart of the GET 2025 experience is a 60‑minute, fully adaptive online assessment, tailored to evaluate candidates on five key pillars of employability:
- Cognitive Ability – Evaluating analytical, logical, and numerical reasoning.
- Communication Skills – Measuring clarity in written and verbal expression, listening, and comprehension.
- Future Skills – Addressing current demands in AI awareness, cybersecurity understanding, and digital/financial literacy.
- Core Functional Knowledge – Gauging subject-matter awareness tailored to academic or vocational tracks.
- Workforce Behavioural Traits – Assessing adaptability, teamwork orientation, resilience, and learning agility.
The adaptive nature means each question is dynamically tailored to the individual’s performance level—for instance, answering a math problem correctly prompts a more complex follow-up, while an incorrect response leads to a more fundamental question level. This ensures an accurate, real‑time mapping of candidates’ strengths and development areas.
Instant Benchmarking and Actionable Insights
At the end of the assessment, participants receive a Candidate Development Report. This instantly displays:
- Real-time scoring, compared to a global peer cohort
- Competency diagnostics, spotlighting core strengths and gaps
- Tailored development suggestions, ensuring individuals and institutions know the next step.
For educators and skilling organisations, the test offers a powerful data tool—allowing them to benchmark cohorts, recalibrate curriculum pathways, and implement targeted interventions.
Strong Institutional Alliances for Global Impact
ETS has forged deep partnerships to bolster the test’s credibility and global reach. In India, GET 2025 is endorsed by bodies like AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education), AIU (Association of Indian Universities), CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), and the talent platform Taggd—ensuring relevance to both academia and industry.
Regionally, support extends to the Middle East and Southeast Asia, where GET is already empowering universities and students. In its 2024 announcement, the test was positioned as aligned with the World Economic Forum’s Future Skills agenda—highlighting critical thinking, digital fluency, collaboration, and adaptability—poised to reshape hiring and educational benchmarks across emerging economies.
Why GET 2025 Matters
The global employment landscape is more dynamic than ever. Advances in automation and remote working, alongside shifting corporate expectations, mean that academic credentials can’t tell the full story alone. Employers increasingly seek evidence of ‘durable skills’—those transferable, human-centred abilities like resilience, communication, and adaptability.
According to ETS’s own Human Progress Report, over 80% of individuals globally agree that continuous learning is essential to long-term success. GET 2025 builds on this insight by offering a robust, scalable way to assess both current capabilities and growth trajectory.
The Candidate Experience: Reflection Meets Empowerment
For test-takers, GET 2025 is designed to be more than an evaluation—it’s an opportunity to self-reflect and plan. Beyond scores and percentiles, each development report includes:
- Breakdown of results against global benchmarks
- Insights into personal skill clusters
- Clear recommendations: e.g., “Improve digital literacy via X pathway,” or “Explore communication workshops focused on presentation skills”
This kind of personalised feedback empowers candidates to take ownership of their career readiness, not just report it.
Institutional Utility: Data-Driven Education Interventions
For institutions, the value goes far beyond the individual. College leaders, skilling bodies, and training providers can use aggregated GET data to:
- Identify curriculum strengths and weak spots
- Implement targeted skilling interventions (e.g., fintech, cybersecurity modules)
- Leverage °participation analytics to align courses with industry demand
In India, Wheebox ETS already provides detailed reports to AICTE, helping policymakers monitor outcomes across engineering institutions.
Corporate Alignment and Career Pathways
Alongside academic uptake, GET 2025 is gaining traction within recruitment pipelines. Several multinational employers—Tata Motors, Accenture, Infosys, Maruti—have incorporated Wheebox assessments to vet employability in early career hiring.
Moreover, strategic tie-ups (e.g. with LinkedIn in India) position the GET badge on candidate profiles, furnishing recruiters with instantly verifiable skill credentials and global comparison benchmarks.
Scalability, Flexibility, and Global Reach
- Online delivery: Fully remote, can be taken anywhere, anytime—ideal for hybrid or rural learning environments.
- Adaptive pacing: 60-minute duration, live question-level calibration, Performance → feedback in real time
- Global benchmarks: Results are contextualised via large international datasets to give true comparatives
- Institutional scheduling: Colleges and providers can schedule tests as cohorts or individual candidates, with automatic proctoring and monitoring
This flexibility ensures GET 2025 is a fit for diverse educational ecosystems, from Tier‑1 universities to emerging vocational training centres.
Building Towards Lifelong Learning
GET 2025 is the latest milestone in ETS’s broader workforce mission. As part of ETS Solutions, the organisation actively collaborates on initiatives like counting seven million career-seekers within equitable access programs in the U.S., alongside partners like Jobs for the Future Labs and verification specialists like AstrumU.
These efforts align with ETS’s broader goal: not merely measuring skill, but supporting lifelong learning, economic mobility, and inclusive pathways for millions globally.
The Road Ahead and Future Outlook
As the world navigates post‑pandemic shifts, digital transformation, and economic uncertainty, the need for verifiable, scalable employability frameworks is only growing.
With GET 2025, ETS is betting on three strategic bets:
- Skills-first education: Superseding credentials with ready-to-deploy capabilities
- Data-driven institutional change: Empowering educators with actionable analytics
- Talent pipeline visibility: Providing recruiters with validated comparisons and candidate readiness
For stakeholders across the ecosystem—academia, government, industry—the test represents a powerful evaluative and prescriptive tool.
Final Word: A Human-Centric Leap
At its core, GET 2025 aims to humanise the employability narrative. No longer are job matches made purely on resumes or grades, but on validated potential, personalised growth, and strategic alignment. For learners, it’s a self-assessment infused with agency; for educators, it’s clearly modelled feedback; for employers, it’s a reliable signal of readiness.
As skill demands evolve, ETS’s Global Employability Test 2025 stands as a compelling answer to one of today’s biggest questions: How ready are you for tomorrow’s world of work?
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