Hire Success offers several pre-employment tests that can help you assess administrative assistant skills and determine whether a candidate is the right fit for the position. Personality test. Assess a candidate's personality, character traits, and work ethic, and receive custom interview questions that are tailored to the candidates' responses. Clerical skills test. Analyze the candidate's attention to detail by having them complete tasks such as comparing data sets for accuracy. Logic test. Ensure your candidates have the problem-solving and decision-making skills needed for success in an administrative assistant role. Reading comprehension test. Identify administrative assistant candidates with refined analytical and reading comprehension skills and ensure key details in communication don't get missed.