# How to add work scenarios to a position in Truffle > Add work scenarios in Truffle: switch them on, check the scenarios drafted for the role, pick the approach you want, and compare each candidate's ranking. Source: https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/add-work-scenario-questions Last verified against the product: 2026-10-05 Time required: 8 min Every screenshot and label below was captured from the live product. **Outcome.** By the end you have a live position that runs work scenarios against the approaches you picked, and you know where to read how each candidate's ranking compares with yours. ## Before you start - A Truffle account. The 7-day free trial works: 30 credits, no credit card. - A position description of at least 200 characters. A position cannot go live on less. - A view on how your team handles the hard moments of the role. Truffle drafts the scenarios and suggests an approach for each, and you decide which approach you want. ## Steps ### 1. Describe the situations in the role Start a new position. On **Define the role**, enter a **Position title** and a **Position description**. Truffle drafts the scenarios from the role, so name the situations the job involves. For this Sales Development Representative, the description names prospects who go quiet after a first call, push back on price, or repeat a competitor's claims. The **Role brief** is optional. Here it answers **What does winning look like in the first 90 days?**, **Who would nail this position?** and **Who would struggle, even if their resume looks great?** Choose **Next: Build position**. ### 2. Check that Work Scenarios is on **Build the screen** arrives with Truffle's suggestions already switched on. **Assessments** costs **2 credits per candidate** and has a switch for each assessment, with the time it takes a candidate: **Personality** (**5 min**), **Work Scenarios** (**6 min**) and **Environment Fit** (**2 min**). Here Work Scenarios arrives on, marked **Suggested**, with a line that quotes the prospect situations from the description. If it arrives off for your role, switch it on. ### 3. Decide what else runs Work Scenarios can run on its own. This guide switches off **Resume**, **Video Interview**, **Personality** and **Environment Fit**, and keeps **Assessments** and **Work Scenarios** on. **How this position runs** shows the flow: Candidate arrives, Completes assessments, You review. The footer shows the candidate's time (6 minutes) and the credits charged as candidates finish (2). Choose **Next: Configure**. > Note: Keeping resume screening or a one-way interview on is fine. Each adds its own section to Configure screening. ### 4. Let Truffle draft the scenarios **Configure screening** opens on **Work scenarios**, marked **drafting** in the list of sections on the left: _Situations from the role. Candidates say what they would do; you set the approach you want._ While it drafts, the section reads **Drafting work scenarios for this role**, usually about 15 seconds. You can work in another section meanwhile. ### 5. Read the drafted set For this role Truffle drafted six scenarios: **Key prospect goes silent**, **Customer cites false competitor claim**, **Quota pressure vs customer fit**, **Territory overlap with colleague**, **Sudden workload spike** and **Critical feedback from supervisor**. Each presents a situation with four response options. Each arrives with one approach already picked and tagged **AI suggested**, so the counter reads **6 of 6 scenarios configured** and **All set**. The section header reads **6 of 6 scenarios · 7 min** and **Suggested, not reviewed**. The picks are Truffle's suggestion until you check them. > Note: Drafting again for the same role can return a different set. In our captures, one or two of the six scenarios changed between runs. ### 6. Open a scenario Open a scenario to see the situation and its four approaches, each with a short name and what the candidate would do. For **Key prospect goes silent**, a prospect who was close to signing stops answering. The approaches are **Graceful exit**, **Multi thread**, **Nurture with value** and **Redirect energy**. Truffle picked Nurture with value. Below the approaches are **Swap** and **Remove**. ### 7. Pick the approach you want You pick one approach per scenario: the one that best fits how you want your team to handle it. Candidates rank all four. To change Truffle's pick, choose another approach. Here we chose Graceful exit. The **AI suggested** tag stays on Truffle's choice, the scenario shows your pick under its title, and the section turned **Reviewed**. If every pick is right as drafted, choose **Looks right**. ### 8. Swap or add a scenario **Swap** opens the scenario library to **Choose a replacement scenario from the library.** **Add a scenario (6 of 10)** opens **Add scenario**: _Browse scenarios by category and add one to your assessment._ Categories include **Teamwork**, **Integrity**, **Prioritization**, **Customer conflict** and **Stakeholder conflict**. Open a category to read its scenarios, then choose **+ Add this**. A position holds up to 10 scenarios. ### 9. Review and activate Choose **Next: Review and activate**. Under **Review your setup**, **Work scenarios** reads **Reviewed**. Choose **Activate position**, or **Save as draft** to finish later. Activating opens **Get candidates**, which reads **Your position is live**, with a **Shareable link** to send to candidates. ### 10. What candidates see first The welcome page lists **Work scenarios**, _Rank responses to real workplace situations._, and **~7 minutes**. After their details, candidates see an intro: **~7 minutes · 6 scenarios**, _Rank 4 options from best to worst for each scenario._ It tells them there is no perfect answer and that there are no trick questions. They choose **Begin scenarios**. ### 11. How candidates rank Candidates see one scenario at a time, with a progress bar (**1 of 6**). They read the situation and **Drag to rank from best to worst**. The four options are numbered and marked **Best**, **2nd**, **3rd** and **Worst** as they move. Candidates see the option text only, not the approach names. They move on with **Next** and finish with **Complete**. **Finish later** lets them come back. When they finish, they see **Screening complete** and **Work scenarios completed**. ### 12. Read the result on the candidate Results appear as soon as a candidate completes the scenarios. Open the candidate. On **Overview**, the **Work scenarios** card (**Judgment on the job**) shows the signal, here **Mid alignment**, and **2 scenarios to review**. Each one names what the candidate ranked first against your pick, here **Territory overlap with colleague: Picked "Manager mediation" · You prefer "Direct conversation"**. The **Assessments** tab carries the assessment signal, High, Mid or Low (here **Mid**). ### 13. Compare each scenario with your pick Open the **Assessments** tab. A bar counts the scenarios, here **Aligned 3**, **Close 1**, **Different 1** and **Opposite 1**, and each scenario gets a row. The label comes from where the candidate ranked your pick: first is **Aligned**, second **Close**, third **Different** and last **Opposite**. Aligned rows read, for example, **Both picked "Graceful exit"**. ### 14. Open a scenario to see the full ranking Open a row. It shows the situation and the **Candidate's ranking** of all four approaches, from Best to Worst, with your approach marked **YOUR TOP PICK**. A line sums it up, here **Candidate ranked your preferred option 4th of 4**, which scores 0 of 3. Use a gap to start a conversation about how the candidate would handle the situation. The result is one input to your decision. It rejects no one. > Note: On the position's candidate list, the **ASSESS** column shows the same signal for every candidate, so you can compare them. ## FAQ **Is this a situational judgment test?** Yes. Work scenarios is the product's name for Truffle's situational judgment test: a work situation, four plausible responses, ranked by the candidate. The difference from a published test is where the comparison comes from. Truffle compares each candidate's ranking with the approach you picked, so the result shows alignment with how your team handles the work. Work scenarios is Truffle's own question set, not a validated psychometric instrument. **How many scenarios does a position get?** Truffle drafts a set from the role. For the Sales Development Representative in this guide it drafted six. You can swap, remove or add scenarios, up to 10 per position. Drafting again for the same role can return a different set, so check the scenarios each time. **Do I rank all four approaches?** No. You pick one approach per scenario, the one you want your team to use. Candidates rank all four, and the result shows where they put your pick. **What if I disagree with the approach Truffle picked?** Choose a different approach. Every scenario arrives with one approach picked and tagged AI suggested, as a starting point. You can also swap the scenario for another from the library, or remove it. **Can candidates see which answer you prefer?** No. Candidates see the situation and the four options, without the approach names or your pick. The intro tells them there is no perfect answer and no trick questions. **Can work scenarios run without a resume screen or video interview?** Yes. A position can run work scenarios on its own, as this guide does, or alongside resume screening, a one-way interview and the other assessments. **Does a low alignment result reject candidates?** No. The result shows how a candidate's ranking compares with the approaches you picked, scenario by scenario. It rejects no one. The only automatic rejection in Truffle is a qualification check you set to Reject automatically. **What does it cost, and how long does it take candidates?** Assessments cost 2 credits per candidate, charged when a candidate completes them. A candidate who never starts costs nothing. Build position lists Work Scenarios at 6 minutes. With six scenarios, candidates were told about 7 minutes. The 7-day free trial includes 30 credits, with no credit card. ## Exact labels in the product These strings are captured from the live product and verified automatically, so they can be quoted directly: `Define the role` · `Build position` · `Configure screening` · `Review and activate` · `Role brief` · `What does winning look like in the first 90 days?` · `Who would nail this position?` · `Who would struggle, even if their resume looks great?` · `Next: Build position` · `Build the screen` · `Assessments2 credits per candidateSuggested` · `Work ScenariosSuggested` · `Personality` · `Environment Fit` · `5 min` · `6 min` · `2 min` · `Completes assessments` · `Next: Configure` · `Work scenarios` · `drafting` · `Situations from the role. Candidates say what they would do; you set the approach you want.` · `Drafting work scenarios for this role` · `Each scenario presents a workplace situation with four response options.` · `Pick the approach that best fits how you want your team to handle it` · `Key prospect goes silent` · `Customer cites false competitor claim` · `Quota pressure vs customer fit` · `Territory overlap with colleague` · `Sudden workload spike` · `Critical feedback from supervisor` · `AI suggested` · `6 of 6 scenarios configured` · `All set` · `6 of 6 scenarios · 7 min` · `Suggested, not reviewed` · `Looks right` · `Graceful exit` · `Multi thread` · `Nurture with value` · `Redirect energy` · `Swap` · `Remove` · `Reviewed` · `Choose a replacement scenario from the library.` · `Add a scenario (6 of 10)` · `Add scenario` · `Browse scenarios by category and add one to your assessment.` · `Teamwork` · `Integrity` · `Prioritization` · `Customer conflict` · `Stakeholder conflict` · `+ Add this` · `Next: Review and activate` · `Review your setup` · `Activate position` · `Save as draft` · `Your position is live` · `Shareable link` · `Rank responses to real workplace situations.` · `~7 minutes` · `~7 minutes · 6 scenarios` · `Rank 4 options from best to worst for each scenario.` · `There's no perfect answer.` · `There are no trick questions.` · `Begin scenarios` · `1 of 6` · `Drag to rank from best to worst` · `Best` · `2nd` · `3rd` · `Worst` · `Next` · `Complete` · `Finish later` · `Screening complete` · `Work scenarios completed` · `Overview` · `Judgment on the job` · `Mid alignment` · `2 scenarios to review` · `Picked "Manager mediation" · You prefer "Direct conversation"` · `Mid` · `Aligned 3` · `Close 1` · `Different 1` · `Opposite 1` · `Aligned` · `Close` · `Different` · `Opposite` · `Both picked "Graceful exit"` · `Candidate's ranking` · `YOUR TOP PICK` · `Candidate ranked your preferred option 4th of 4` · `scored 0 of 3` · `ASSESS` ## Video How to add situational judgment questions to a job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Q3byG9SmE - 0:00 Define the role - 0:16 Build the position, then configure screening - 0:45 Review and activate, then what happens next Transcript: Here's how to add work scenarios to a position, so you can see how candidates would handle real situations from the job. Start a new position, and describe the situations the job involves, like prospects who go quiet, or push back on price. On Build position, keep Assessments on, and choose Work Scenarios. Truffle drafts scenarios for the role, like a key prospect going silent. Open one. There are four responses, and you pick the one you'd want. Your pick is what candidates are compared against. Truffle suggests a starting pick. Change it if your team would do it differently. Or swap a scenario for another from the library. Then review, and activate. Each candidate's ranking is compared with your picks, scenario by scenario, and labelled, from Aligned to Opposite. It sits next to everything else you know about them, and the call is yours. Start free at hiretruffle.com. ## Related - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/assessments - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/reviewing - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/what-candidates-see - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/add-a-personality-assessment - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/set-up-a-one-way-video-interview - https://www.hiretruffle.com/how-it-works/guides/screen-resumes-with-ai-criteria --- Truffle is an AI screening platform for small teams doing high-volume hiring: resume screening, one-way video interviews, and talent assessments, working with job boards like Indeed or an existing ATS. AI surfaces the evidence and you make every decision. Scores never reject a candidate; the only automatic rejection is a qualification rule the employer writes. https://www.hiretruffle.com