Now technology helps you select better school leaders: SimTray™—Simulation-based in-tray exercise helps you select school leaders quickly and cost effectively.

SimTray™—Simulation-based in-tray exercise

Select leaders quickly and cost effectively


SimTray™ is a computer-based in-tray exercise that automates the screening of school administrators, while freeing up time and resources.

SimTray™ simulates the typical day of a school administrator. SimTray™ places candidates in a number of realistic situations faced in a school, demanding decisions only an effective leader can make. At the end of the evaluation, SimTray™ generates a report summarizing participant performance on various leadership parameters. These reports can be linked to your existing HR system or appropriate stage in your recruitment process.

True to life, SimTray™ detaches information inputs from decision-making instances. The participant is required to correlate and understand all information related to incidents and take appropriate action.

SimTray™ requires candidates to respond to messages in various formats—email, voicemail, letters, memoranda, and meeting minutes—and resolve incidents within the specified time. The candidates’ decisions and their impact govern their progress in the exercise. SimTray™ separates the leaders among candidates by evaluating the efficacy of their decisions, prioritization, and delegation.

Key Benefits

  • An intuitive user interface that calls for minimal monitoring
  • Generation of an automated report of participant performance—freeing up both time and resources
  • Reduced manual intervention during evaluation that practically eliminates scoring errors
  • Vast reduction in year on year expenditure on candidate screening