Talent Acquisition

Driving efficiency and insight

Credera

Industry

Consulting

Function

Early Careers Hiring

Credera is a global boutique consulting firm with 22 locations worldwide. Known for its unique consulting model, Credera blends business transformation expertise with deep technology capabilities to accelerate growth and create exceptional customer experiences.

Each year, Credera welcomes a high volume of graduate and intern-level talent across the US. However, the recruitment process was becoming increasingly time-intensive for its lean hiring team. At the same time, the business had identified a challenge with early-stage retention, driven by limited candidate insight into the day-to-day realities of the roles available.

Objective

Transforming early careers recruitment

Credera needed a solution that would streamline its hiring process, improve candidate understanding of roles, and identify high-performing talent more effectively.

Credera needed a solution that would:

Candidate experience

Enhance candidate experience and understanding of roles

Future performance

Provide a reliable indicator of future performance

High performers

Identify high-performing candidates efficiently

Efficiency

Reduce time and resource demands on the recruitment team

Behavioural strengths

Assess key behavioural strengths aligned to success at Credera

Solution

A fully bespoke, branded online assessment

Ahead of Credera’s fall 2023 early careers recruitment campaign, we partnered to co-create a fully bespoke, branded online assessment using Capptivate, our immersive assessment platform.

After their initial application, candidates are invited to complete the assessment, which features realistic, scenario-based challenges drawn from actual Credera workplace experiences.

This provides a dual benefit: giving candidates a genuine preview of the role while offering Credera robust data to support smarter, faster decision-making.

To ensure full alignment, we carried out:

Stakeholder interviews with senior leaders to uncover the core strengths and success factors for early careers talent

Perception surveys to validate these findings with a wider cross-section of Credera colleagues

Collaborative content development, using brand assets and real workplace examples to design meaningful, insight-rich assessment scenarios

The implementation of the Capptivate assessment is delivering measurable, strategic impact:

0–120

billable hours saved per recruitment cycle, equivalent to $150,000 in savings

of candidates report a positive experience

felt it gave them greater insight into Credera’s culture and expectations

“We partnered with Cappfinity to better understand our candidates’ abilities earlier in the process. We’ve been able to identify high performers without the addition of an interview, speeding up our decision-making process and ensuring our candidates hear an answer from us in a timely manner. Besides the assessment itself, working with the Cappfinity team has proved to be a beneficial addition to our process, since they are truly a trusted partner with whom we can brainstorm ideas and learn from.”

Allie Buckmaster, U.S. Campus Recruiting Program Manager at Credera

What’s Next?

Continuous improvement

Following the success of the pilot, Credera and Cappfinity continue to refine the assessment process using candidate feedback and data insights to further enhance performance, experience, and efficiency.

By streamlining interviews and enhancing upfront role insights with real-world scenarios, the new approach has not only freed up valuable time for the recruitment team but is also expected to boost long-term retention.

The final product enables candidates to engage with a realistic preview of working life at Credera, while their responses help surface those who best align with the firm’s needs.