When hiring editorial talent, choosing the right assessment platform can save weeks of interviewing and prevent costly bad hires. Two platforms frequently come up in this context: EditingTests.com and Vervoe. While both offer skills-based assessments, they serve fundamentally different markets.

Editorial Focus vs General Skills Testing

EditingTests.com was built exclusively for editorial hiring. Every test — the Editing Test, Proofreading Test, Grammar Test, Writing Test, MS Word Test, and Industry Vocabulary Test — was designed specifically for hiring editors, proofreaders, copywriters, and content professionals. The platform has been refining these assessments since 1998.

Vervoe is a general-purpose skills testing platform. It covers hundreds of job types and uses AI to score open-ended responses. For general hiring, this breadth is valuable. For editorial hiring specifically, the lack of specialist depth shows: Vervoe has no track-changes editing environment, no industry vocabulary database, and no percentile benchmarks built from editorial candidates.

The Track-Changes Editor

One of EditingTests.com's most distinctive features is its simulated Track Changes editing environment. Candidates edit documents exactly as they would in a real editorial workflow — accepting, rejecting, and making changes. No general testing platform offers this level of ecological validity.

Industry Vocabulary at Scale

EditingTests.com's Industry Vocabulary Test covers 3,800+ industries and specialisms. If you're hiring a medical editor, legal copywriter, or financial journalist, the IVT tests whether candidates actually know the terminology of the field. Vervoe has no equivalent.

Pricing

EditingTests.com charges per candidate with no subscription required. Credits never expire. Vervoe charges monthly subscription fees that scale with team size. For organisations hiring editorial staff occasionally rather than continuously, the per-credit model is significantly more cost-effective.

Verdict

For general hiring across departments, Vervoe's breadth makes sense. For editorial, publishing, content, and communications hiring specifically, EditingTests.com's depth, heritage, and specialist tooling make it the stronger choice. There is no general platform that replicates 28 years of editorial assessment expertise.