10 Applied Testimonials

“Applied is an exciting new approach to hiring that we’ve been using for our recruitment process to address unconscious bias by design, and focus on the candidate’s skills rather than their work and educational history. It's taking into account the fact that it's harder to train bias out of people but it's easier to use systematic approaches so that bias can't creep in.”

“We’d never go back to using CVs to shortlist - it seems insane now to think of hiring that way.”

“In the incredibly crowded recruiting technology space, Applied is one of the only solutions that not only works, but works because the science is real. If you care about building a more competent and diverse workforce, buy this product.”

“With Applied in place, our hiring can be more strategic and focused. In addition, we can plan how and where we’re searching for talent across many different communities, job forums, regions or universities, so that our recruitment is diverse and ensures we get the best people for the roles available.”

"We’re so happy about the enormous amount of labour we’ve taken out of the process by the assessment being done in the platform. Graduate timing is always tricky as you’re competing with all the other companies trying to win the best talent. Before we’d have to build in 2 weeks to read all of the applications before we could invite anyone to interview. Now that’s 2 days. You really notice that when you have over 100 applications.”

"It’s the mindset behind the skills we were looking for rather than where, when or over what time period they were developed.”

"Moving to Applied allowed me to be more hands off and took the pressure off my team so they could focus on optimising our pipeline for diversity. Despite our initial hesitation, the wider team loves Applied as much as we do it even won a poll of the best thing about London Sport last year at our Christmas Away Day.”

"Not only did Applied remove the paper CV sift, it saved us huge amounts of time. It also enabled us to attract and select candidates from diverse, non-sport backgrounds who were perfect for our roles.”

"This way of recruiting differentiates us from the competition."

“It was interesting to compare our gut assessment of candidate performance to the more accurate, objective assessments when we removed unconscious bias. No one likes to think they’re biased but we’re all human. Rather than spend time trying to train unconscious bias out, it felt far more useful and efficient to simply design a recruitment process that did all that automatically. We’ll never go back to using CVs to screen again.”