Should You Take Our Free Eligibility Assessment Before Applying? (Honest Answer)

Yes — but the more useful question is: what do you want to know about yourself afterwards.

The Workium migration assessment is free. It takes about 7 minutes and asks about your nationality, education, work experience, language skills, financial capacity, and migration preferences. At the end, it tells you three things:

1. Which migration routes are realistically open to you (and which aren't).
2. Where the gaps in your file are — what you'd need to acquire or upgrade to qualify for the routes you'd like.
3. What the realistic timeline and cost look like for each route you're eligible for.

That's it. There is no "you scored 87 on the migration index" — that kind of gamified score is marketing. The assessment is decision support, not a leaderboard. And because the eligibility check itself is free, the only cost to you is the seven minutes of honest answers.

Who it's actually for

The assessment is built for the person who is:

• Curious but not committed. You've thought about working abroad. You don't know if it's realistic. You want a quick, honest read before you commit time, money or hope to a particular route.
• Comparing options. You've heard about Germany, Canada, the UK, the Gulf. You want a one-pass comparison instead of researching each separately.
• Re-evaluating after a setback. You applied for a visa, got refused, want to know what to do differently — or which alternative route makes sense.

It is not built for:

• The person who already has an employer offer in hand. (You don't need it. You need a caseworker.)
• The person who wants a binding legal opinion. (We're not lawyers. The assessment is decision-support.)
• The person who wants to "game" the answers to get a more favourable result. (The output is only useful if your inputs are honest.)

The three answers, unpacked

Routes open to you. The assessment runs your profile against the active routes we maintain in our knowledge base — Germany ZAV, EU Blue Card, Skilled Worker (UK), Global Talent (UK), Serbia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Portugal D7/D8, France Talent Passport, Netherlands HSM, and the Canadian Express Entry equivalents. For each, you get yes / borderline / no with the reason.

Gaps to close. If "borderline", the assessment tells you exactly what would tip you to "yes". Sometimes it's a language test. Sometimes it's a recognised qualification. Sometimes it's two more years of work experience. This is the most useful part for most people. It turns "I don't qualify" into "here are the three things I'd need to acquire over the next 18 months".

Realistic timeline and cost. Real numbers, not aspirational ones. End-to-end timelines from start to visa in hand, in months. End-to-end cost including visa fees, document translations, insurance, and our service fee. No surprises later.

What the assessment cannot do

It cannot account for the things you didn't tell us. If you have a prior visa refusal you didn't disclose, the assessment will give you a more optimistic answer than reality. If you have a criminal record in a country where you lived for two years, the assessment doesn't catch that automatically. Be honest in the inputs; the value of the output is only as good as the inputs.

It also cannot weight the things only you can weight: how much you'd miss family, how risk-averse you are, how flexible you are about which country, how much your current job pays vs. the European role.

After the assessment

You'll receive:

• A PDF summary of your routes, gaps, and timeline.
• An invitation to book a free 30-minute consult with a caseworker if you'd like to talk through it.
• An assessment dashboard if you create an account, where you can re-run the assessment as your situation changes (new qualification, new language certificate, new financial position).

Six months later, when you've actually completed the gap items, you can re-run the assessment and watch your eligible routes expand. It's the same feedback loop you'd get from a good consultant — but free, repeatable, and on your own schedule.

The downside of taking it is approximately zero. The downside of not taking it is that you'll either over-plan for a route you wouldn't have qualified for, or under-plan for a route you would have. Spend the seven minutes.