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Version 25.2 (Release 04/2025)

With spring in full bloom, Version 25.2 brings colorful enhancements. This release focusses on improving the peer result breakdown in report Here are the key updates in this release:

  • Colors in peer breakdowns: You can assign a color to each peer group which will then be used to indicate the peer result in the overall chart and to render the peer group result chart.
  • Labeled peer results: The new chart legend displays multiple peer group results in a clear, compact format—making it simple to identify and compare feedback between groups. This feature works especially well with colored peer groups.
  • Visualized result distribution: Our new density visualization displays how peer feedback is distributed across all responses in a peer group. The system can also cluster similar results, making it easier to spot patterns and identify group consensus.
  • Peer tracking: For cases requiring transparency, you can now show peer identities in reports. This optional feature can be enabled per assessment to maintaining our high data protection standards.
  • Performance improvements: As always, we continue to optimize our system’s performance and responsiveness. In this release, we’ve enhanced the assessment-listing logic to reduce loading times in key areas.
Version 25.1 (Release 03/2025)

Version 25.1 is our first official release of 2025 and it’s packed with exciting features. We’ve enhanced shared profiles, gap analysis blocks, and the overall platform performance. Additionally, we’ve introduced integrations with Umantis and WooCommerce:

  • Improved Shared Profiles: Shared employee profiles have been redesigned to better align with the actual employee profile. The profiles now also include historical assessment data and offer the option to share sensitive attachments.
  • Enhanced Gap Analysis: The gap analysis block in custom assessment reports is now much more flexible, offering configurable result dimensions, customizable colors, dimension comparisons, and the ability to create fully customized gap charts.
  • Umantis Applicant Synchronization: We’ve added a bidirectional integration with Umantis for applicants. This not only allows an automatic import of applicants but also updates their Umantis fields—including status changes, bluquist profile linking, and assessment report uploads—as they progress through the recruiting flow in bluquist.
  • WooCommerce Integration: For our partner Heart-Based Center we integrated with WooCommerce. Soon their customers will be able to order IST™ assessments using this integration.
  • Platform Improvements: As always, we also work behind the scenes to improve the overall platform. This release includes various quality-of-life updates like improved login performance and a redesigned attachment upload UI.
Version 24.8 (Release 02/2025)

Version 24.8 focuses on enhancing vacancy and candidate management. With features like recruiting flows, candidate notes, and vacancy-specific roles, managing your vacancies in bluquist is now easier than ever. The new follow-up assessments enable multi-step evaluations based on previous results, which helps with both vacancies and more complex assessments. Here are the highlights:

  • Recruiting Flows: Attach a flow to your vacancy to automate candidate progression. These flows can activate assessments or send emails to relevant stakeholders as candidates advance through the stages.
  • Candidate Notes: Add comments directly to candidate profiles to facilitate discussions within bluquist.
  • Vacancy-Specific Roles: Assign roles with varying permissions to employees within a vacancy. This allows them to participate in the recruitment process, such as viewing candidates, without needing a company-wide role.
  • Follow-up Assessments: Introduce follow-up assessments that unlock only after the completion of the parent assessment. These assessments can leverage results of the parent assessment for dynamic contents and comprehensive reports.
  • Vacancy Attachments: Attach documents to your vacancies and choose whether to share them with candidates. This allows the inclusion of internal documents, additional information, or tasks for candidates.
  • Enhanced Dynamic Assessment Logic: We’ve expanded our conditional assessment questions to access more data. For example, questions in follow-up assessments can now appear based on specific outcomes from the parent assessment.
Version 24.7 (Release 01/2025)

In Version 24.7, we’re enhancing our integration of the Integral Stress Test™ (IST) by introducing recurring iterations:

  • Improved Integral Stress Test™: The IST now supports recurring assessments, enabling users to easily perform additional iterations. Analyze your development by checking the user-friendly immediate feedback, including change indicators, or track your journey by looking at past results. For more details about the Integral Stress Test™, visit our partner YourPrevention.
Version 24.6 (Release 11/2024)

Version 24.6 brings a host of exciting new features and enhancements to bluquist, designed to improve user interaction and customization. From AI-assisted feedback to more flexible answer scales, here are the key highlights:

  • AI Assistance for Free-Text Questions: Need help providing constructive feedback? EVO is here to assist! EVO offers tips, analyzes your feedback, and even suggests improvements. Currently, this is a beta feature, so feel free to contact us if you’re interested in trying it out.
  • Assessment Manager adjustments: Assessment managers can now consistently access assessment results as if they were team leaders. This enables them to effectively manage assessments across the entire company.
  • Custom Answer Scales: Enjoy increased flexibility with custom answer scales. You can now freely define custom and localized answers, allowing you to tailor the options to each question.
  • Localized Date Format: Previously, all date formats were based on our company’s German roots. Now they adapt to the user’s browser settings, enhancing clarity for our global user base.
  • Bipolar Scale Sliders: This new question format for custom assessments allows users to indicate their position on a slider. Previously exclusive to core assessments, this feature is now available for all custom assessments.
  • Performance Improvements: We are constantly enhancing platform performance. This time, we present to you faster user searches across various functions, ensuring a smoother user experience.
Version 24.5 (Release 10/2024)

Version 24.5 introduces role templates for simpler company role management, featuring a partnership with swissICT for easy access to their role catalog. Here is an overview of all highlights:

  • Role Templates: bluquist now supports role templates, making it easier than ever to define and manage company roles. We have partnered with swissICT to offer their curated selection of roles for your organization.
  • Hiding Result Dimensions: You can now mark specific assessment result dimensions as hidden. These dimensions will not appear in reports or anywhere on the platform unless explicitly requested.
  • Reinviting Users: Did a user get invited but lost their invitation? No problem! You can now easily reinvite them through their settings page.
  • Displaying Free-Text Answers: For 360° assessments, free-text answers will now be displayed even if the minimum number of peers has not been met for that peer group. These answers provide valuable insights and should not be overlooked.
  • Performance Improvements: Our ongoing efforts to optimize performance have led to further enhancements, ensuring a smoother user experience.
Version 24.4 (Release 08/2024)

Version 24.4 provides users with more control over their assessment configurations and allows customization of Integral Stress Test™ results handling. Key highlights include:

  • Editing Peers: Previously available only to assessment managers and admins, the ability to edit the peer configuration of your 360° assessments is now available to all users. This allows users to make necessary changes or corrections independently.
  • Integral Stress Test™: Post-assessment options for the IST™ are now more configurable, allowing users to receive tailored coaching offers based on their results. Additionally, users will soon be able to order a test kit for the IST™ Level 2 test directly through bluquist. Visit our partner YourPrevention for more details on the Integral Stress Test™.
  • B2C Configuration: For B2C customers, statistical data about other users is now hidden on the overview page, ensuring sensitive business insights remain private.
  • Early Retrieval of Self-Assessments: API users can now retrieve self-assessment results from 360° assessments before peer results are in. This enables early self-reflection prior to receiving external feedback.
Version 24.2 (Release 07/2024)

Version 24.2 launches with a suite of powerful new features and improvements designed to elevate your experience with bluquist. This release brings you greater flexibility in managing assessments, better profile management, enhanced reporting capabilities, and faster performance. Key highlights include:

  • Manual Recurring Assessments: Trigger user-specific re-evaluations on demand, perfect for straightforward individual reassessments without the need for a fixed schedule.
  • Resetting Assessments Made a mistake? No problem! Reset an ongoing assessment, delete the current results, and retake it whenever needed.
  • Editing Peers: Invited the wrong peer or need to make a change? Easily fix these issues in your 360° assessments by editing the peers involved.
  • New Employee Profile: Discover our revamped employee profile page, offering more detailed information per assessment and improved overall readability, making it easier to get the insights you need.
  • Attachments For Employees: Attach additional information to employee profiles, just like you do with candidate profiles, making it easier to keep all relevant details in one place.
  • Sharing Protected Results: When necessary, include health & well-being results in your profile share links, which are, of course, password protected to ensure your data remains secure.
  • New Custom Report Blocks: Add user-editable personal notes and bipolar scales to your custom assessment reports for better visualization of tendencies with opposing outcomes.
  • Performance Improvements: Enjoy faster search results for large user bases, reducing wait times and making your workflow smoother. We are continuing to work on optimizing performance in other areas as well.
Version 24.1 (Release 04/2024)

With bluquist release v24.1 we extend the capabilities of our assessment engine, to be able to quickly build custom reports for your own assessments. We can now build extensive assessment reports that are tailored to your needs, with different visualizations and content that adapts to your assessment results. Release highlights include:

  • Custom Reports: Add fully customizable reports to your own 360 or self-assessments.
  • Assessment Calculation: Additional configuration options for assessment calculations
Version 23.6 (Release 04/2024)

Version 23.6 unveils an exciting new addition to our suite of measurement tools: Surveys. This feature opens up new avenues for gathering insights swiftly and efficiently. Key highlights include:

  • Introducing Surveys: Create surveys effortlessly with our intuitive survey builder, supporting various question types and multi-language questionnaires.
  • Flexible Data Collection: Collect survey data directly within Bluquist, invite external participants via email, or share open participation links for broader engagement.
  • Real-time Visual Insights: Witness your survey results unfold in real-time, empowering you with immediate feedback as data streams in.
  • Iterative Survey Analysis: Perform multiple iterations of the same survey, observing insights evolve over time to inform strategic decisions.
  • Enhanced Configuration and Management: Benefit from advanced configuration options for 360 assessments, tailoring the experience to your specific needs.
  • Heightened Security: Safeguard your Bluquist accounts with the option to enforce two-factor authentication, ensuring the utmost security for your data.
Version 23.5 (Release 01/2024)

In version 23.5 we’re introducing granular support for recurring assessments, revolutionizing the way you plan and execute assessments. Key highlights include:

  • Recurring Assessment Capabilities: Seamlessly create assessments that can be performed repeatedly, tailored precisely to your organizational needs.
  • Detailed Assessment History: Access a comprehensive history of assessments completed multiple times within your personal profile, providing invaluable insights into developmental progress.
  • Company-wide Aggregated Results: Gain a holistic understanding of your company’s skills, values, and performance with aggregated results, illuminating both strengths and areas for development.
Version 21.7 (Release 01/2022)

With this release we have created the possibility for you to integrate individual assessments and thus enable:

New user group for candidates:

  • the mapping of individual competence models in the context of employee development
  • the use of individual competence models for the creation of role profiles incl. matching functionality
  • the use of individual assessments in the recruiting module (vacancies and candidate matching)
  • the use of individual assessments in the team management module

For the integration of individual assessments in your instance, please contact sales@bluquist.com. If required, we are also happy to support you in developing your own competency models and associated assessments.

Other new features in this release:

  • Individual branding: You can upload your individual company logo in the settings (this will then be displayed in your instance and in e-mail dialogs)
  • Export of result charts: Export single result diagrams from user profiles as graphics to add them to your presentations or documents afterwards
  • Document upload and links to candidate profiles: Add any documents or links to candidate profiles
  • Define standard assessments: Assessments defined as default are automatically preselected upon invitation (can be individually deactivated)
  • Individualized user invitations with sender: When inviting users, the name of the inviting user as well as the name of the instance is automatically added to the email
  • Selection of job families in role management: Assign your created roles to a job family
  • Advanced formatting options for role description: For improved structure of your role descriptions
Version 21.6 (Release 11/2021)

Our biggest release to date comes with numerous features that make recruiting with bluquist even easier. You can look forward to the following new features:

New user group for candidates:

  • Candidates can be invited in the same way as employees and assigned to specific assessments.
  • including extended metadata, such as age, gender, place of residence, nationality, industry experience, job requirements and motivation
  • Specific onboarding flow for candidates
  • Sharing of profiles via sharing link (incl. role fit)
  • Assignment of candidates to vacancies

Note: The assignment of users to user groups can be changed via Settings / User Management.

Vacancy management

  • Easy creation and management of vacancies based on roles
  • Comprehensive description of vacancies via framework data such as salary range, location / remote share, type of employment
  • Easy assignment and comparison of candidates including matching scores and comparison charts with reference profile data
  • Link to team module for better overview of vacancies in your teams
  • Management of vacancy status (open, filled, archived)
  • Easy editing, duplication and deletion of vacancies
  • Sharing of vacancies via sharing link incl. anonymization option

Improved dialog for removing roles

  • Roles assigned via team management can be removed more easily

Refined career levels

  • The career levels Professional, Experienced, Expert, Manager, Executive are now available for selection

Easy access to the Help Center

  • Help center directly accessible via dialog icon
Version 21.5.1 (Release 07/2021)

Improved search function:

  • Search for additional attributes possible
  • Improved handling of search functions (caching of search parameters)

Share function for user profiles:

  • Profiles, e.g. of candidates can be shared securely (and anonymized if desired) via links and can be accessed without a platform account
  • Employees can share their profile

Improved presentation of assessment results (psychological potential):

  • Improved classification of results
  • Individual recommendations according to the results

Simplified profile deletion:

  • Users can quickly and easily delete their profile themselves and have increased control over their data

Roles view in employee profile:

  • Assigned roles can now be viewed in the context of the employee profile

Link to Help Center:

  • Users can access help via Help Center (link in Settings section)

 

All updates are summarized in this video:

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Version 21.4.0 (Release 04/2021)

New and comprehensive team management incl.:

  • Easy team creation
  • Easy team staffing with employees and roles (to plan team staffing)
  • Comprehensive team profile that aggregates assessment data of all employees and allows easy comparisons of personality, motivation, skills & preferences (ideal for staffing considerations, team development & coaching)
  • Simple entry of team details via text editor

Further development of wellbeing tracking, incl.:

  • Extension of the individual wellbeing tracker by week view
  • Revised calculation of the 7-Day-Wellbeing-Index (only available after at least 5 entries)
  • Automatic sending of a weekly wellbeing report via email (configurable by administrators in the organization settings)

Other improvements, such as:

  • New sorting of RMP motives in the employee profile (according to intensity of expression).
  • Improved dialog for inviting employees
  • Direct link in email notifications to message settings
  • More gender-conform language (e.g. “employees”)
  • Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements

 

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