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Alva Labs Overview

What is Alva Labs?

Alva’s science-backed candidate assessment platform gives global HR and talent acquisition teams the ability to make faster, smarter hiring decisions. Alva easily integrates with the major ATS providers, giving hiring teams the power to efficiently assess and measure candidates. Alva’s assessments are user-friendly and easy to complete. Give top talent a modern, positive candidate experience with the guarantee that they are being evaluated fairly.

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Alva combines established psychology with the latest technology, including machine learning and AI. Our psychometric tests are automated, validated, easy to complete, and can assess personality and logical abilities in minutes.


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Alva Labs
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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Stockholm, Stockholm County
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64 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Alva Labs is a technology company specializing in innovative solutions for talent assessment and recruitment. They leverage advanced data analytics and machine learning to enhance the hiring process, helping organizations identify the best candidates through personalized assessments and insights. Their platform aims to improve candidate experience while providing employers with valuable metrics to make informed hiring decisions. For more information, visit their website at [alvalabs.io](https://www.alvalabs.io/).


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Eilin G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Alva Labs objectively assesses candidates, ensuring hiring based on potential and performance."
The user experience is seamless and intuitive, making the hiring process more efficient. Candidates also benefit from a smooth experience, with the...
Richard S.
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Richard S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"High quality and easy to use candidate assessment platform"
From the recruiter's perspective: Easy to set up and use. Defining a role fit is easy yet extensive. The ranking of candidates is visual and simple...
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Ravraj B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great to know about Alva Labs"
The price point and how dedicated they to get the right person. Great customer support. The integeration
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Chief People and Culture Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Alva Labs?

The user experience is seamless and intuitive, making the hiring process more efficient. Candidates also benefit from a smooth experience, with the added advantage of reusing their results in other hiring processes where Alva is utilized, ensuring fairness and reducing redundant assessments. We have a great customer success manager who is always there to help us fully utilize the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

When it comes to the coding test there is a range of alternatives, and sometimes a challenge to choose the correct test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alva Labs objectively assesses candidates, ensuring hiring based on potential and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richard S.
RS
Sales Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Alva Labs?

From the recruiter's perspective: Easy to set up and use. Defining a role fit is easy yet extensive. The ranking of candidates is visual and simple. The assessment areas give a broad picture of the profile.

From the candidate's perspective, it is fast and easy to do the tests. When done, the candidate gets a good summary of their profile (and is able to save it for later). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

The results expire in a year. (E.g. personality might develop, but logic test scores usually don't change or develop within a year). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Assessing candidates profile fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RB
VP COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

The price point and how dedicated they to get the right person. Great customer support. The integeration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

nothing it worked perfectly for us and I would highly recommend Alva Labs to me peers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gain the right talent for our company and for out team moral Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erolet W.
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Employer Liaison
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Its useful and helpful and makes the process easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

Takes some training to use for some people in the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Assessing talent and automating the proceess Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Max M.
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Talent Acquisition Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Super user friendly, great feedback, great integrations. Also, I get so much support from the customer success manager with more things than just the software. If you need an input on anything connected to people & culture - turn to Alva. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

The only thing I am lacking is the possibility to build teams and see potential challenges within teams based on the test results. There was something like that when I started to usa Alva, but I do not think it is there anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alva Labs:

Based on the most modern technology and super easy to use both for companies and candidates. I have worked with a couple of test suppliers throughout my carrier and am most happy with Alva. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling large ammounts of applications, making sure that we are talking to and hiring the most qualified candidates, the possibility to give everyone the same chance and have an inclusive and non-biased recruitment process, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Smooth integrations, UX is comfortable.

The fact that you can test high volumes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

Reliability and consitency of test-results is low. Unfortunately i have had the experience many times, that the same candidate has very different scores. This does not only make the user experience worse but also the candidate experience.

Also there is a high churn in employees Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

High volume recruitments can be faster by early testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Josh Spencer of Alva Labs

Hi there,

Thank you for taking the time to write us a review. I'm sorry that your experience indicates that our tests have low validity and/or reliability.

Even though the validity and reliability of our assessments remain at an excellent level according to European standards (evidence linked below and in technical manuals), there are certain situations where a candidate's result might change more than expected – for instance, if they were disturbed, distracted, stressed, anxious, or tired during test-taking.

In general, we allow candidates to re-share existing results for up to 24 months to avoid the need for them to retake our assessments regularly. Though, as is the case with all psychometric assessments, results can vary across two different test-taking sessions. Therefore test-retest reliability is very important for any test.

I have linked an article on the reliability of our personality assessment for you to review. We have published help centre articles on the reliability and validity of both our personality and logical ability assessments as well as our full technical manuals for transparency. We have built our tests on Item Response Theory to ensure we have excellent tests with the ability to improve even more over time.

Please reach out to me directly at josh@alvalabs.io in case you have further questions or would like some support!

All the best,

Josh

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Erika H.
EH
Chief People Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Alva Labs is a crucial step in finding the best talent for us. It helps us find the right fit, as well as making our selection process more efficient and objective. We also receive great support from our success Manager not only about the platform but also in inspiration and material for team development and other people practises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

There are no clear disadvantages or anything that we are dissatisfied with. In the beginning, it wasn't completely intuitive to navigate all aspects of the portal. But we have always gotten quick and great support in finding our way. Maybe we should have listened better during the onboarding :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making our candidate selection process more objective and efficient. It provides a personality assessment which we use for leadership development. The seamless digital candidate experience also works well with the employer brand that we want to send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

K
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Very easy to get started, outstanding candidate experience. The Alva team is ambitious, experienced and relentless in its quest to change the world of assessment tests. This is evident in every encounter with them and as a client/user/administrator this is very engaging and important. Also, Alva really makes an effort to understand our business and way of working, so that the implementation is fine-tuned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

The simplicity is great but also a little deceiving -general capabilities tests and personality tests may be easy to understand but the interaction with candidates is still very important and there is a need for guidance also for very experienced recruitment professionals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use talent assessment in every Executive Search project. It is important to have the test phase integrated with the recruitment system, as well as a seamless journey between recruiter, candidate and client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michaela B.
MB
Head of Talent Acquisition & People Partner
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Alva Labs?

The candidate perspective as well as easy to use and understand for hiring managers. The team is amazing - service minded and with lots of knowledge. I love to bring them in for internal workshops. I also love the data-driven parts and interview questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

The only thing I can think of is a team comparison function. It would be great to get it back to see where we have gaps before a new hire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Objective and data-driven approach for recruiting where we get to know the candidate and have the possibility to recruit on potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Renewables & Environment
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Alva Labs?

Based on science and easy to use. Easy for the canadidates to get results and reuse the results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alva Labs?

All project to be set up in Teamtailor is automatically set up as projects in Alva Labs. Does not provide in depth regarding the candidae. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alva Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Selection of candidates for hiring purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.