Kern
You can stop whenever you like, and come back to the same question.
Kern is a work-style assessment. Employers use it to understand how somebody prefers to work, not how clever they are.
It takes about 70 minutes.
What you will be asked
Five parts, in this order, and some of it is timed.
- Statements about how you work. For each one you say how much it sounds like you.
- Short situations at work with four possible responses, on a clock you can see.
- Statements about rules, honesty and pressure.
- Questions about what work means to you and how central it is to your life.
- A self-check on spreadsheets, on the computer you are sitting at, and one question you answer in your own words.
What happens to your answers
The same steps for everybody, in the same order.
- Every answer saves the moment you give it. Close the tab and come back to the same question.
- Scoring is automatic and runs on the same rules for every person who sits it.
- A named person reads the result before anybody makes a decision from it.
- You get your own copy, in plain language, once that review is done.
What is recorded, and what is not
The whole list, including the parts nobody usually mentions.
- How long you take over each answer, and whether a timed answer arrived before the clock ran out.
- What your browser reports about itself, because one of the questions asks how well you know your own machine.
- No camera, no microphone, no screen recording, and nothing to install.
- Nothing you write is put through AI writing detection, or read by a language model. The one open question is read by a person.
If any of this will not work for you
Tell us before you start and a person will reply. A screen reader, a slow connection, a day you cannot sit at a screen for long: all of it can be worked around, and asking counts against you nowhere.