Job Simulation Assessments
noun.
Let candidates step into the role and prove they can do the actual work.
e.g. “A customer just escalated.”
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Hiring for a customer facing role?
Make sure they can actually face a customer.
Sarah Miller
Customer Support Specialist · Columbus, OH · 5 turns, 6m 48s
Simulation
Angry Customer Complaint
Recommended strong on recovery
Absorbed the anger without matching it, took ownership in her first reply and closed with a specific commitment. Coach on stating policy limits earlier in the call.
Simulations / Customer facing templates
Search templatesASAngry Customer Complaint
A loyal customer of four years gets a late, wrong order and five days of silence. They want to know why they should stay.
Cold Call: Busy Prospect
An ops manager at a Dallas logistics firm picks up on the way into standup and gives you ninety seconds, tops.
Escalation Call: Enterprise Client at Risk
Six weeks of integration failures at your largest account. Their VP of Operations is on the phone, and they are evaluating.
Handling a Refund Demand
Four months into an annual subscription, the customer wants a full refund and is threatening a chargeback and a one-star review.
Junior Asking for Guidance on Documentation
A 40-page process doc contradicts itself in three places. Ask your manager for clarity without dumping the confusion back.
Negotiating a Renewal
Contract up in three weeks, patchy adoption, and the customer is using usage data as leverage for a lower price.
Objection Handling: Price Pushback
Procurement has a quote 30% cheaper on the desk. You can move 10%. Make the premium feel justified with real numbers.
Reactivating a Lost Deal
A VP of Sales who chose a competitor six months ago is back in market, guarded, and giving you fifteen minutes.
Upsell to an Existing Customer
Eighteen months on the base plan, genuinely happy, no open tickets. Surface a gap they haven't noticed yet.
Every customer conversation, ready to assign.
What actually happens
A day-in-the-role scenario where the candidate handles the customer.
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Choose the scenario for the role
Each simulation is built around a real situation that job faces weekly, with its own inbox, constraints and stakeholders.
Job Simulations / LibraryAssignAngry enterprise customer
Account Management · 20 min
readyMissed shipment recovery
Supply chain · 25 min
readyQuarter-end discount ask
Sales · 20 min
readyUnderstaffed shift
Retail ops · 15 min
readyData breach first hour
IT · 30 min
readyUnderperforming report
Management · 20 min
ready - 2
The situation pushes back
The AI counterpart reacts to what the candidate actually says escalating, conceding or testing them so rehearsed answers fall apart.
Simulation / Live Ethan Brooks
Customer
This is the third outage this month. Give me one reason not to churn.
EBEthan Brooks
You're right to be angry. Here's what broke and what we changed yesterday.
Customer
I've heard that before. What do I get if it happens again?
EBEthan Brooks
A credit tied to uptime, in writing, plus a weekly check-in for 60 days.
Pressure escalated twice · candidate held the commitment boundary
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A rubric score you can defend
Responses are graded on the competencies the role needs, with the exact quotes that earned each rating attached.
Reports / Simulation Ethan BrooksScenario performance
84 / 100
De-escalation88Ownership92Commercial judgment76Clarity under pressure80Conceded a credit without checking margin guardrails coachable, not disqualifying.
What you get out of it
A day on the job, compressed into one exercise.
- ~30%less interview time
The simulation filters early, so panels only meet people who already performed.
- Role-truescenarios
Candidates handle the actual situations the role runs into, not abstract puzzles.
- Highercandidate buy-in
People see what the work is, so accepted offers come with fewer surprises.
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Before you ask.
Candidates handle a day's worth of realistic work for the role the same artifacts, constraints and interruptions inside a fixed time box.
Usually 30-60 minutes. Anything longer tends to hurt completion rates, so simulations are scoped to the smallest slice of work that still predicts performance.
It replaces the screening round for most teams. The interview then goes deeper on the work the candidate already produced.
Yes for the major platforms Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS, Ashby and others through native sync or API. Anything custom is handled with a webhook or scheduled sync.
Data stays inside your account and is never used to train models outside it. Xobin is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, with GDPR-aligned data processing and configurable retention.
Most teams are live in a few days for a custom build. The variable is usually your existing tooling and approvals, not the product itself.
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