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Retail hiring that builds your customer experience

Bryq helps retail HR teams hire associates and managers who reflect your brand and stay past the first quarter. Roadrunner uses Bryq to score candidates by store format and location, hiring 2x faster across a multi-state footprint.

Bryq vs TestGorillacomparison page hero with pre-employment assessment headline

Retail hiring that builds your customer experience

Bryq helps retail HR teams hire associates and managers who reflect your brand and stay past the first quarter. Roadrunner uses Bryq to score candidates by store format and location, hiring 2x faster across a multi-state footprint.

Bryq vs TestGorillacomparison page hero with pre-employment assessment headline

Retail hiring that builds your customer experience

Bryq helps retail HR teams hire associates and managers who reflect your brand and stay past the first quarter. Roadrunner uses Bryq to score candidates by store format and location, hiring 2x faster across a multi-state footprint.

Measurable impact on hiring outcomes

Bryq is a talent assessment platform that helps retail HR teams hire associates and managers who stay past the first quarter, with a 15-minute mobile assessment.

2x

Faster hiring

47%

Lower attrition

112%

Boost in DEI

Frontline hiring breaks at seasonal scale

Frontline turnover sits between 60 and 100% annually in most multi-location retailers. On top of that, Q4 candidate flow can triple in six weeks. The combination breaks any hiring team that tries to ramp 3x the people in half the time without dropping the bar.

One assessment, many store profiles

Same 15-minute Bryq assessment for every candidate. Different scoring profiles per format. A cashier, sales associate, visual merchandiser, and shift lead each get ranked against a profile built for that role, not a generic retail baseline. No retesting candidates for different openings.

Bryq personality assessment interface showing candidate responding to behavioral statements
Personality trait result: Openness to Change
Personality trait result: Extraversion
Bryq personality assessment interface showing candidate responding to behavioral statements
Personality trait result: Openness to Change
Personality trait result: Extraversion

Built for brand consistency, not bland hires

Brand consistency is a behavioral problem, not a script problem. Bryq's behavioral profile learns from your actual top performers in each format, so a luxury counter and a discount checkout end up scored against different traits, even when the job title is the same.

Case Study:
Proof from Roadrunner

Roadrunner uses Bryq across a multi-state retail and operations footprint, with role profiles tuned per location and format.

ATS-integrated in under a week

Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, iCIMS, Workable. The assessment fires automatically when a candidate hits your screening stage, and scores write back to the candidate record. Store managers can see ranked shortlists for their own openings with permissions.

Compliance

SOC 2 Type II · ISO 27001 · GDPR · EEOC/UGESP aligned · NYC Bias Audit (Local Law 144) cleared · EU AI Act Article 4 ready

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Hire Hundreds. Match Every One.

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FAQ

Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about Bryq

You build a separate role profile for each format (flagship, outlet, warehouse, kiosk), and Bryq scores candidates against the profile you assign at the requisition level. Same assessment, different scoring. No retesting candidates for different roles. The TA team at a multi-format retailer typically sets up four to six store profiles and reuses them across hundreds of openings.
Yes. The 15-minute mobile assessment plus role-matched ranking means a seasonal pool of 5,000 applicants becomes a ranked shortlist in days, not weeks. Customers running peak hiring see time-to-decision drop by half. The assessment doesn't degrade at volume, which matters when November candidate flow is 3x normal.
Yes. Manager roles use a different profile that weights judgment, leadership behaviors, and cognitive ability higher than associate profiles. We've built role profiles for store managers, district managers, and visual merchandising leads.
Most assessment platforms either give you a generic personality test or a long cognitive battery designed for white-collar hiring. Retail hiring lives or dies on completion rates, mobile usability, and the ability to differentiate across formats. Bryq's 15-minute mobile assessment holds completion rates on phones, and the role-profile system lets you treat a luxury flagship and a discount outlet as different jobs without retesting.
Bryq passed the NYC Bias Audit under Local Law 144 and is EU AI Act Article 4 ready. The Behavioral and Cognitive components are validated for adverse impact across protected groups by I/O psychologists. Documentation is available for compliance teams.
Yes, with permissions. Store managers can see ranked shortlists for their own openings, with a one-page summary per candidate. They don't see raw scores, just role fit and a short interpretation. Keeps decisions structured.
Bryq integrates with the major ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, iCIMS, Workable) in under a week. The assessment fires automatically when a candidate hits the screening stage, and scores write back to the candidate record. Your recruiters don't switch tools.
Yes. The AI Proficiency Assessment scores candidates 0 to 100 across five dimensions (AI Task Strategy, Prompting & Interaction Quality, Critical Evaluation & Validation, Ethical & Responsible Use, Workflow Integration & Output Quality) at three proficiency levels (Aware, Functional, Advanced). For retail it matters most in store-operations roles that touch inventory AI, customer-facing AI assistants, or AI-powered scheduling. 15 minutes, tool-agnostic. You pick the level once per role.