Hire the right graduates. Unlock potential. Build future leaders.
Thomas helps HR and talent teams identify graduates and early career hires with the skills, behaviors, and potential to succeed, stay, and grow into tomorrow’s leaders.
Talent teams using Thomas:
- Select high-potential candidates with the aptitude, behavior, and personality to excel
- Predict long-term fit and reduce the risk of early attrition
- Tailor development to accelerate contribution and career growth
- Strengthen future leadership pipelines with data-driven insight from day one
Trusted by leading organizations worldwide | BPS & EFPA approved
When early career hires don’t work out, the cost goes beyond recruitment
Graduate and early career programmes are designed to bring in fresh talent, but without the right insight, it’s easy to hire for polish over potential — and miss the traits that predict success and retention.
The most common challenges include:
- High attrition in the first 12–24 months, increasing recruitment and onboarding costs
- Graduates who struggle to adapt quickly to the demands of the role
- Difficulty identifying candidates with leadership potential early in their careers
- Development programmes that don’t match individual strengths or learning styles
Without objective data, talent teams are left relying on CVs, academic results, and first impressions, which leaves too much to chance when building the next generation of leaders.
The insight platform that helps you hire the right graduates and keep them
Thomas uses science-backed assessments to give you clear, objective insight into every candidate’s potential, learning speed, and working style, so you can make confident graduate hiring decisions and set them up for success from day one.
Thomas Assess - For smarter graduate and early career hiring
Thomas Assess gives talent teams objective data to identify high-potential candidates, predict long-term fit, and make fair, consistent hiring decisions.
- Behavior – Improve retention by placing graduates where their natural working style fits the role and team from day one
- Personality – Match motivation and working style to the right environment to boost engagement and long-term success
- Aptitude – Reduce ramp-up time by identifying fast learners who adapt quickly to new challenges and responsibilities
- Emotional intelligence – Build resilience and adaptability to perform under pressure and progress faster
Thomas Connect - For personalised graduate development and onboarding that works
Thomas Connect turns assessment results into clear, practical guidance that helps managers understand how to get the best from each graduate or early career hire. With tailored insight into working styles, motivators, and communication preferences, managers can build stronger relationships, reduce friction, and accelerate performance.
- Behavior – Accelerate productivity, create high-functioning relationships fast and multiply team performance when you help your people communicate more effectively.
- Colleague compare tool - find out how your working style differs from other members of your team, and understand the ways you can build effective relationships.
- Team view – Understand team dynamics to improve collaboration, alignment and cross-functional working
- AI coaching (Thom) – Provide your people with real-time guidance that helps them navigate client conversations and understand the nuance of behavior.
Unlock the full potential of your people
Understand how graduates work and collaborate to place them in roles where they’ll thrive.
For hiring and development
Used in: Assess & Connect
Reveal motivation, communication style, and cultural fit to improve engagement.
For hiring and development
Used in: Assess & Connect
Identify fast learners who adapt to new challenges, helping them contribute value sooner.
For hiring
Used in: Assess
Measure resilience, adaptability, and self-awareness to support performance and integration.
For development
Used in: Connect
Collect performance feedback from managers and peers to guide development and career growth.
For development
Used in: Connect
Talent teams using Thomas deliver stronger results from early talent
With science-backed insight from hiring through to development, graduate and early career programmes achieve higher retention, faster performance ramp-up, and stronger leadership pipelines.
- Cut early attrition — hire for role and cultural fit to keep graduates engaged and committed beyond year one
- Shorten time-to-productivity — identify agile learners who can deliver value in weeks, not months
- Increase engagement and performance — align roles, managers, and development to individual motivators
- Secure future leadership — identify high-potential graduates early and fast-track their progression
- Elevate manager impact — equip leaders with tailored insight to coach, motivate, and retain early talent
These outcomes mean your graduate programme isn’t just filling roles — it’s building the organization’s future.
Fast implementation, easy integration, and simple scaling
Thomas fits seamlessly into graduate recruitment and development workflows, delivering value from day one, whether you’re running a single intake or a global programme.
1. Select your assessment(s)
Choose validated tools matched to your hiring, onboarding, and development goals.
2. Deploy with ease
Send to candidates or new hires in minutes, or integrate with your ATS, HRIS, or LMS to streamline the process.
3. Get instant, actionable insight
Receive clear reports designed for hiring managers and programme leads with no psychometric training required.
4. Scale with confidence
Standardise your graduate assessment and development approach across functions, locations, and intakes.
Trusted by graduate and early careers talent teams
From large-scale graduate schemes to targeted early careers programmes, top organizations rely on Thomas to hire the right people, accelerate their success, and keep them engaged.
"Using Thomas Assess has allowed us to understand more about our candidates beyond what a CV can tell us. By assessing our candidates with the same questions, we can provide our hiring community with quality data to allow for a more informed hiring decision. They've even worked with us to deliver training to our hiring managers on how to interpret the reports."
Richard W, Talent Acquisition Lead
"We’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible. With Thomas, we’re building more self-aware, high-performing teams -and that’s already having a ripple effect across the organization."
Jen Robinson, Organizational Development Manager
"We chose Thomas because of the simplicity of the assessments and the ease of articulating the results to colleagues and respondents. We know we're providing a positive candidate experience and the reports are really useful and user friendly"
Thomas Client
Hire the right graduates. Unlock potential. Build future leaders.
See how Thomas helps you hire graduates and early career talent who fit the role, contribute quickly, and stay longer by giving managers the insight to support and develop them effectively.
In your personalised demo, you’ll:
- Discover how our assessments reduce the risk of early attrition
- See how to match candidates to roles and managers for faster performance ramp-up
- Learn how to give managers actionable insight to coach, motivate, and retain top early talent
Build your future leadership pipeline today and book your demo now.
Trusted by leading organizations worldwide | BPS & EFPA approved
Frequently asked questions
Can Thomas integrate with our graduate recruitment systems?
Yes. Thomas integrates with all major ATS, HRIS, and LMS platforms so you can manage assessments and reporting within your existing workflow.
Are Thomas assessments valid and compliant?
All assessments are BPS-validated, EFPA-compliant, and backed by decades of psychometric research, ensuring fairness, reliability, and accuracy for high-volume graduate hiring.
How do psychometric assessments improve graduate recruitment?
They provide objective data on behavior, personality, aptitude, and emotional intelligence, helping you select candidates with the highest potential and best cultural fit.
Can Thomas help reduce early attrition in graduate programmes?
Yes. By matching candidates to the right roles, managers, and development paths, Thomas helps keep graduates engaged and committed beyond their first year.
How do we measure ROI from graduate assessments?
Thomas offers outcome reporting, analytics, and benchmarking to track the impact on retention, performance, and progression rates in your graduate and early career hires.
What is the best psychometric test for graduates?
A combination of behavioral, personality, aptitude, and emotional intelligence assessments provides the most complete picture of graduate potential — all available in the Thomas platform.
Can managers use Thomas to support graduate development?
Absolutely. Thomas gives managers clear, practical insight into how to coach, motivate, and retain each graduate based on their individual working style and motivators.
