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TrueAbility
Technology, Information and Internet
San Antonio, TX 742 followers
Validating Employability for the 21st Century Workforce™
About us
TrueAbility® | Performance-based Assessment Certification, Talent Assessment and more. TrueAbility is an advanced platform for measuring the proficiency of today's digital workforce™. TrueAbility provides skill assessment solutions built upon scalable performance-based technology, by providing the most natural and comprehensive hands-on environment for a person to demonstrate ability. Performance-based assessment captures more educational objectives than any other assessment method alone by allowing an individual to engage in a live environment to perform real-world tasks. TrueAbility’s platform combines this innovation with traditional assessment methods and a menu of features to create the most optimal assessment capability available. Data scientists, actuaries, lawyers, developers, engineers, technologists and others prove themselves on the TrueAbility platform. Customers include Google, Elastic, SUSE, VMWare, Pivotal and others. Founded in 2012, TrueAbility is privately held and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. For more information, please visit http://www.trueability.com.
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http://www.trueability.com
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- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Antonio, TX
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Performance-Based Training Platform, Performance-Based Certification Platform, Technical Assessment, testing, Exam Delivery, Talent Assessment, Training Lab, Remote Testing, Action-based Assessment, Computer-based Testing, Skills Assessment, Computer based assessment, Computer based testing, High stakes certification, and pre-employment testing
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TrueAbility
Pre-Employment Testing Software
Scalable delivery of hands-on exams for assessing digital skills
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San Antonio, TX 78248, US
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Most hiring decisions are based on the wrong signal. We still measure what people know—instead of what they can actually do. And it shows. Candidates pass exams. Earn certifications. Check every box. Then get into real environments… and struggle to execute. Because knowledge ≠ performance. For organizations building certification programs, this gap is everything. If the assessment doesn’t reflect real work, it doesn’t predict real-world ability. The shift happening now is toward skills-based evaluation: → real tasks → real environments → real proof of ability Not theory or guesswork. Because at the end of the day, what people can do is what actually matters. If you're thinking about how certifications need to evolve in 2026, this is worth a read: https://lnkd.in/eHTYHWnV