Your First Government Assignment
Junior Analyst, Service Quality
Calls to 19911 have spiked. Layla needs a brief before her 1pm. Three colleagues hold three different versions of why — comms gap, policy mechanism, or both.
Application · Assessment
Evidence, not interviews.
A thirty-minute role simulation gives recruiters and hiring leaders a recorded decision the candidate actually made — under pressure, against the clock, scored against a public rubric.
Why this works
Three commitments that make the score defensible.
Evidence over opinion
Every score links to the specific email, brief, or escalation the candidate produced. Hiring committees argue about evidence, not impressions.
One rubric, NSF-mapped
A published, examiner-calibrated rubric mapped to the National Skills Framework. Comparable across roles, candidates, and cohorts.
Fair under pressure
Same case, same clock, same NPC pressures for every candidate. The variance is in their decisions — not in your panel's mood that day.
How it compares
Interview vs. simulation.
Dimension
Traditional interview
Simi
Signal
How they describe themselves
How they actually behaved
Comparability
Depends on the panel
Same case, same rubric
Adverse impact
Bias-prone, hard to audit
Rubric is public, decisions are logged
Candidate cost
Multiple rounds, hours invested
One thirty-minute session
Artefact
Notes you can't share
Portable Skills Profile
Roles you can already assess
Six simulations cleared for assessment use.
Reading the Room
Operations manager, customer service
47 unread tickets. A pattern is hiding inside them. Identify it before tomorrow's standup.
The Community Council
Lead organizer of a public consultation
Three resident groups have three different priorities for the same neighborhood plan. Run the room, manage the tensions, and find common ground.
The Permit Backlog
Operations analyst, regional services
Average processing time is 90 days. The target is 30. Diagnose the bottleneck across three steps of the pipeline and propose the change that would move the needle most.
The Data Anomaly
Junior analyst on a public-indicator dashboard
A key indicator just spiked. Could be a data-quality issue. Could be a real signal. Investigate three explanations and tell your manager which one to act on first.
The Plain-Language Mandate
Junior Communications Analyst
A new circular changes a citizen entitlement. The circular, the legal annex, and the live FAQ disagree on one eligibility condition — and you publish today.
Stop arguing about interviews. Start arguing about evidence.
Talk to us about running a private cohort or piloting Simi inside your hiring funnel.