Monocept reduces time-to-hire to 15 days with Adaface custom assessments

Monocept specializes in solving complex business problems for customers. The senior technology leadership comprises of several senior solution architects and software engineers who are deeply passionate about architecting future-ready software solutions in varied technologies.

Since we hire in India, we receive a very large number of candidate applications for our open roles. While there are very strong applications from the best engineers, they get mixed with several hundred applications from candidates who are not qualified. Being a lean recruitment team, it becomes exhausting to separate the signal in the noise. We were previously using another assessment tool which is very popular in the IT industry, it was not effective in shortlisting candidates- our hiring managers were not happy with the quality of candidates who were shortlisted.

The factors that were important to us in deciding which assessment tool to switch to were:

• The satisfaction of our hiring managers with respect to the quality of shortlisting was the key decision making factor.
• Test taking rate: Having seen a really low test taking rate of ~30% with the previous assessment tool, we were evaluating options against this metric.
• Candidate friendliness: Being a candidate friendly recruitment team, we know our long term talent brand is affected by our vendor decisions.

Adaface's subject matter experts set up custom assessments for each of Monocept's open roles, enabling Monocept to screen candidates with confidence. Each assessment included questions on each of the must-have skills and coding challenges to weed out unqualified candidates at the start of the recruitment process.

An integration with Monocept's ATS system makes sure that they can see all their candidate data in one place, and make hiring decisions collaboratively. They are able to invite candidates to take assessments with the click of a button, track their status, compare their scores and view detailed scorecards- all from within their ATS.

• Chatbot based assessments: The bot, Ada guides the candidates through the assessment, making it a friendlier interaction.
• Revolutionary test setup: We have a lateral hiring usecase, that varies according to client requirements. Being able to set up highly relevant custom assessment tailored to our roles is a superpower Adaface gives us, and we haven't seen any other solution that comes close in terms of customization.
• Activity Tracker: We like that we can keep a track of candidates' activity after sharing a link, and follow up with candidates accordingly.

Custom lateral hiring assessments that Adaface designed for Monocept included: