The job market has undergone major changes caused by the health crisis. Companies, and more particularly consulting firms, are seeking to adapt their recruitment methods and automate CV selection. Bain & Company is a concrete example of this. Today, we know more about the tool that the company uses for its recruitment.
TestGorilla, Bain & Company’s revolutionary recruitment tool
TestGorilla is a Dutch startup specializing in the HR field and aims to revolutionize the technologies used by experts in the field. The young company has found the ideal way to recruit candidates through short tests focused on their skills. This tool has the advantage of eliminating the prejudices caused by excessively elaborate and eye-catching CVs. The startup currently works with more than 1,500 companies, including some very large ones: NHS, Sony, PepsiCo and Bain & Company.
Before using this tool, Eveline Offermans, talent manager and HR business partner at Bain, spent between two to four hours each week sorting 40 to 50 applications. The Amsterdam office receives on average 800 CVs per year for junior profiles and 1,300 for senior profiles. She attests to the quality of the TestGorilla tool and affirms that it allowed her to save precious time and to exclude profiles that she could have excluded manually.
It has now been 15 years since the consulting firm adopted this tool. Bain is not the first firm to use an automation solution for its recruitment: BCG has also chosen to automate a business case exercise via chatbot
Everything you need to know about TestGorilla, the revolutionary startup
The young company was launched by Otto Verhage, a former employee at Bain, where he became advisory partner in 2018. His idea was to develop a tool to meticulously analyze CVs and carry out an initial assessment of technical skills, experiences and language level of applicants. It is therefore on these criteria that you can make the difference during the screenings.
This technology counters cognitive biases and selections on a subjective basis. The company would thus make it possible to evaluate, on a neutral basis, the interpersonal skills and corporate culture of applicants. This still remains debatable, given that you have to meet the candidate and verify these elements.“We eliminate bias because we make hiring very data-driven,” explained Wouter Durville, co-founder of TestGorilla with Otto Verhage, to TechCrunch.
TestGorilla has now raised $10 million in a funding round led by SaaS specialist VC Notion Capital and from Partech, Jeff Weiner’s Next Play Ventures, Indeed co-founder Paul Forster, Peakon co-founder Phil Chambers , and Justworks co-founder Isaac Oates.
