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title: Setting benchmarks for assessments
description: Learn what benchmarks are, how to send assessments to applicants, and how to use applicants' assessment results as benchmarks.
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# Setting benchmarks for assessments
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### What are benchmarks?
Your best employees should be used as benchmarks by which to evaluate the people who apply to your jobs. CareerPlug allows you to invite your best current employees to take your assessments. After doing so, these employees can be used as benchmarks by which to compare applicants' assessment scores.
As you can see below, employee Candice B. has been set as a benchmark:
### Sending employees assessments and setting benchmarks
You can send employees assessments by navigating to your **Team** page.
Locate one of your best employees who you want to send assessments to and click their name, or click the **three dots icon** followed by **View Profile**.
If you don't see the employee you're looking for, you can use the search box in the top right corner to search by name.
On the **Applications** tab of the user's Profile page, select which assessments you would like to send to them by switching on the toggle next to the assessment.
If you opt to [use the personality assessment](https://support.careerplug.com/careerplug-s-personality-assessment?hsLang=en), click **Edit Categories** to select which personality traits to assess. You must select at least 1, but we recommend choosing 5 or less categories so you don't overwhelm your applicants.
Once you've added any assessment(s) you want to send to the user, click the **Copy Link** button, followed by the **Update User** button to save your edits. Then you need to [send them an email with the assessment page link](https://support.careerplug.com/using-assessments?hsLang=en#sending).
### After they complete the assessments
After your employee completes the assessment(s), you can set them as a benchmark.
Navigate back to your **Team** page, open the user's Profile page by clicking their name (as shown above), and click the **Applications** tab.
In the Benchmarks section, you can choose how the user's assessment score is factored into your benchmarks by clicking either of the following checkboxes:
- **Compare Individual Scores** - You will see this person's individual scores next to a new applicant's. Individual benchmarks help you compare a new applicant's assessment scores with your best individual team members.
- **Include in Average** - This employee's score will be included in an average of scores of all team members who have this option selected. In short, this employee's assessment score will be factored into your 'Team Benchmark Average.' The Team Benchmark Average helps you compare an applicant's score with the average among all your selected team members as opposed to individual team members.
Click **Update User** to save your changes.
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