As a recruiter, you’re often tasked with hiring for roles you don’t personally specialize in. One day it’s a data analyst, the next it’s a copywriter, and the week after that it could be a cloud engineer. You can spot great resumes, but when it comes to building a skill-based assessment, how do you know you’re really testing the right abilities?

You’re left juggling research, generic online tests, or back-and-forth with hiring managers—all of which slows down hiring and risks losing good talent to faster-moving competitors.

Isn’t that the ultimate challenge? Creating reliable assessments in fields you’re not an expert in, while still convincing the hiring manager that the candidate is the right fit.

Introducing AI assessment generation

Recruiters often face a gap between evaluating candidates and having deep subject knowledge. With Zoho Recruit’s AI-powered assessment generation, you can now bridge that gap effortlessly.

This isn’t just about generating assessments with AI. It’s about doing it in a way that’s context-aware, reliable, and aligned with your hiring needs.

Why this matters for recruiters 

• Evaluate beyond your expertise: Confidently assess roles outside your core domain.
• Maintain consistency: Use structured, AI-curated assessments instead of ad hoc tests. Avoid unconscious bias when creating assessments manually.
• Save time: Skip the back-and-forth of creating assessments from scratch and entirely depending on experts in the field.
• Improve candidate experience: Provide clear, role-relevant tests that reflect actual job requirements.

Powered by Zia–the only LLM  built for business

At the heart of this feature is Zia LLM, Zoho’s business-centric large language model. Unlike generic AI tools, Zia is designed to understand business workflows, recruiter priorities, and the nuances of hiring. That means the assessments it creates aren’t random questions pulled out of thin air. They’re targeted, role-specific, and designed to measure skills that matter.

How Zia generates assessments 

Creating an assessment with Zia is straightforward.

1. Go to the Assessments module and click on add assessment. In the pop-up, click the 'Generate with AI' button. 
   
2. In the assessment creation page, fill the fields with relevant information
   
3. Within moments, you’ll have a complete assessment tailored to the role.
   

4. You can edit questions, prompt and iterate, reorder them, or remove items before publishing the test to candidates.
   

   Holding true to our promise of privacy and security 

   Recruitment data is sensitive, and we’ve built AI assessment generation with that in mind. AI Assist processes only non-sensitive assessment fields to generate content, never personally identifiable or confidential information. All operations comply with GDPR and HIPAA where applicable, ensuring global standards of protection. Importantly, candidate answers and results are never accessed or used by the AI engine, so you can evaluate talent confidently while preserving candidate privacy.

   Evaluate any professional, hire faster

   With AI assessment generation, Zoho Recruit gives you the confidence to evaluate candidates fairly and accurately, no matter the role.

   Explore in detail how to generate assessments with AI in our help article.