UGC/Influencer Coordinator Comms Hiring Test

Put a candidate in the job before you hire them. Four live conversations with UGC creators, played by Claude, cover the work a creator manager actually does all day: cold-sourcing someone, negotiating a rate against a floor that doesn't move for pleading, chasing QC notes that weren't actioned, and relaying a brutal client review to the creator it is about. Each conversation is graded against your own rubric and sits next to the full transcript, so you are reading what they would have sent a real creator rather than what they say about themselves in an interview.

• Sourcing and negotiation against a creator who does not fold. Maya has never heard of your client, gets pitched five to ten times a week, and pushes back on usage rights. Devon quotes more than double the budget and has a real floor that moves for structure, never for flattery or a story about your budget. Their positions, floors, and conditions for agreeing are never shown to the candidate.

• Two of the four are client QC feedback, which is where this role is actually won or lost. One creator replies "all fixed" when one of your ten notes was never touched, another was done wrong, and a third was a bad note you should withdraw. The other never sees the client's review, which is harsh and personal, so she only sees what the candidate types. That message is scored before she reads it, so how hard she gets is computed rather than improvised, and two candidates who write the same thing meet the same creator.

• Speed of communication, measured rather than remembered: how long they read the brief before typing, how long each message took to compose, their longest pause, and the time per scenario and across the whole exercise, each number sitting beside the message it belongs to.

• A grade per conversation with a score and a quote from what the candidate actually wrote on every axis, plus what was agreed or lost and a would-work-again call.

• A reviewer console behind one password, showing the brief and the non-negotiables beside the transcript, with your own score and notes stored separately so a regrade never overwrites a person's judgement.

• A guided prompt that rewrites all four scenarios, personas, and rubrics for the role you are actually hiring for, by interviewing you about the job.