Green Zone Assessment · For Employers
Know what a candidate will do in the field before you send them there.
Judgment-based assessments for maintenance and field-service hiring: legal boundaries, electrical, plumbing, interior repairs, HVAC and smart systems. Each one returns a manager report with readiness, red flags, and a supervision recommendation. No candidate accounts, no seats, no setup.
These assessments evaluate judgment and boundaries. They do not certify trade proficiency or grant work authorization, and every report says so.
Manager Competency Report · Sample
Sample Candidate
Electrical Risk, Boundary Control & Stop-Work Judgment
15/19
Critical red flag · Q9
Candidate did not stop work when the panel condition changed. Assign no independent electrical-adjacent tasks until retrained.
From "looks good on paper" to a field-readiness call, in four steps.
Send the link.
Pick a module, enter the candidate’s name and your email, and we generate a private assessment link. Forward it however you already talk to candidates. Nothing to install, no accounts on either side.
The candidate works the scenarios.
19 questions per module, built around real jobsite decisions: when to stop work, what to touch, what to escalate, what to walk away from. About 15 minutes. Answers autosave, so a dropped connection costs nothing.
Scoring runs the same way every time.
A fixed answer key and a published rubric. The raw score maps to one of four readiness tiers, and every missed question carries a pre-assigned severity flag. No AI guesswork, no grader mood: two identical answer sheets produce two identical reports.
The report lands in your inbox.
Readiness tier, critical red flags with manager notes, a five-competency breakdown, a supervision recommendation, safe first responsibilities, and tasks to avoid. Written for the person doing the scheduling, not for HR filing.
The rubric is not a secret.
Here is exactly how a score becomes a recommendation. The same table drives every report.
| Score | Readiness tier | What it means for scheduling |
|---|---|---|
| 17 – 19 | Field Ready | Standard onboarding supervision. Start with employer-defined safe first responsibilities. |
| 14 – 16 | Trainable with Supervision | Moderate supervision while the flagged gaps are trained out. |
| 11 – 13 | High Supervision Required | No independent task assignment. Pair with a senior tech. |
| 0 – 10 | Not Field Ready Yet | Training before field placement. Reassess after. |
Flags override the score: one critical miss forces Direct Supervision, two or more force Strict Direct Supervision, and the most restrictive recommendation always wins. A candidate can score 18 and still land under Direct Supervision because of a single critical miss. That is the point.
Six modules. Assess one skill area or run the whole battery.
01
Legal Boundaries, Jobsite Safety & Stop-Work Judgment
This module establishes the operating standard for entry-level residential maintenance work. Most early failures do not happen because a person lacks effort. They happen because the worker loses control of scope, ignores safety conditions, continues under pressure, or attempts work that should have been paused, reviewed, or escalated. It measures whether a candidate can recognize legal and safety boundaries, understand assigned scope, identify risk before it escalates, stop work when conditions are unclear or unsafe, communicate clearly, and escalate appropriately.
19 questions · ~15 min
02
Electrical Risk, Boundary Control & Stop-Work Judgment
This module evaluates electrical risk recognition, boundary discipline, sequencing, judgment, and communication. It does not certify technical electrical proficiency.
19 questions · ~15 min
03
Plumbing — Source Diagnosis, Water Control & Damage Prevention
This module evaluates plumbing risk recognition, source diagnosis, water-control discipline, sequencing, judgment, and communication. It does not certify technical plumbing proficiency.
19 questions · ~15 min
04
Interior Repairs, Tool Control & Finish Quality
This module evaluates task selection, tool control, substrate judgment, installation discipline, finish quality, hazard recognition, and communication. It does not certify technical trade proficiency.
19 questions · ~15 min
05
Systems You Don’t Own — HVAC, Smart Systems & When to Walk Away
This module evaluates system-boundary judgment, compatibility awareness, hazard recognition, account and privacy discipline, sequencing, and escalation communication. It does not certify technical HVAC or smart-system proficiency.
19 questions · ~15 min
06
Field Readiness, Value Creation & Career Growth
This module evaluates work-order prioritization, ownership, scope control, productivity judgment, communication, documentation, coachability, and career-growth planning. It does not certify technical trade proficiency.
19 questions · ~15 min
What this measures, and what it doesn't.
Green Zone assessments measure judgment: risk recognition, sequencing, boundaries, escalation, and communication. They do not measure hands-on speed or trade skill, and they never claim to. Each module's report carries a required disclaimer and the report language is constrained so it cannot overstate what was tested.
- Reports state readiness and supervision needs. They never say "hire" or "fire".
- No module report claims trade certification, licensing, or work authorization.
- Every report shows its scoring math: the tier bands and flag rules are printed above.
- Candidate answers are stored privately; the report link is separate from the assessment link and goes only to you.