How a global humanitarian organization for peace and security is meeting the assessment needs with iMocha

An international organization accustomed to working in different settings and time zones, this world organization is no stranger to enormous people requirements across its global locations. An organization of such stature would need to take into account numerous factors to ensure quality hires without impacting security of personnel and locations.

An international organization accustomed to working in different settings and time zones, this international organization is no stranger to enormous people requirements across its global locations. An organization of such stature would need to take into account numerous factors to ensure quality hires without impacting security of personnel and locations.

• Candidate resume should match candidate’s current skill proficiency.
• Beyond certifications, candidate should have practical knowledge of stated concepts
• Recruiting manager/ hiring manager should not be burdened with assessing skills they do not have knowledge of or expertise in.
• Getting the right questions, different levels of questions for job functions and vacancies for assessing candidates.
• Quality over quantity – Shortlisting skilled and relevant candidates from a large pipeline to drill down to the most relevant candidates could save ample amount of time
• In case of remote tests, ensuring the candidate taking the assessment is the same candidate that appears for further rounds.

With requirements around different verticals and lack of dedicated teams in-house, the general process involved people at the operational level would work with HR teams to develop questions and mock tests, which was just additional work on top of their existing activities leading to undue time consumption and resource wastage.

Remote assessments would prove an ideal solution to address all of these challenges. While a custom tool for conducting assessments was available in-house, the challenge for this international organization was not in the tool per se. The initial attraction for them was iMocha’s expansive skill library. With a 2,000+ skill library, being empowered by a platform that functioned as an external team with the prompt capability to produce assessments to test a specific subject expertise be it supply chain or a different skill within a short span of time was the highlight. Eliminating the need for HR to depend on SMEs for creating tests and ultimately saving time in the process.

iMocha’s remote assessment features proved the ideal solution, enabling candidates to attempt the tests as per the time-frame set by the hiring team. An existing customer since October 2019, not much has changed on the hiring front since the advent of the Corona Virus! Being an organization capable to run in regular as well as crisis situations, business continuity teams ensure the organization runs as per set plans. A pre-screening tool like iMocha empowers remote assessments from anywhere in the world! The advanced image and video proctoring, window lock with test termination, question randomization, disabled copy/paste features ensure authenticity from the test taker. The flexibility of the platform and customization of questions have ensured continuity irrespective of the crisis! Besides, the quick custom test creation, self-marking and detailed graphical analytics were impressive features.

An existing customer since October 2019, this organization’s teams based out of numerous locations have been filling their hiring needs with iMocha’s platform. Till date, around 1,800 candidates have been assessed via the platform with 200+ of these candidates meeting the required shortlisting criteria.