Hiring is one of the most critical business functions for any organization. The quality of talent a company hires directly influences the success of the business they build.

While every company aspires to hire great talent, many struggle to do so consistently. One of the primary reasons for this is that they often use ineffective screening methods that fail to identify candidates with the right skills for the job.

Recognizing these shortcomings, our team sought to make true talent more discoverable in the hiring process. Conventional tools like resumes, credentials and applicant tracking systems tend to measure the wrong things, overlooking practical job skills and subsequently leading to bad hiring decisions.

To address this, we conducted extensive research, speaking with dozens of hiring managers, recruiters and candidates to understand their experiences. Candidates expressed a need to for better ways to showcase their skills, regardless of their professional backgrounds. On the employer side, the top priorities were very direct: quality of hire, time to hire and running a fair process.

These insights guided us to develop a skills-based assessment platform designed to provide employers with more objective and relevant data about candidates. With Hexient, hiring managers could quickly create and launch job-relevant assessments within minutes and get actionable results within hours. This approach empowered them to make better hiring decisions with higher quality data in less time.

Key features I designed included:

• Assessment creation flows: A step-by-step process for hiring teams to build their own skills assessments.

• Candidate pages: Profile page for candidates with performance data from completed assessments

• Position detail pages: Content regarding position related data, such as top performing candidates and an overview of the current pipeline

• Analytics dashboard: Data visualizations and graphics providing summary statistics on an organizations overall candidate pool

• … and much more

The hiring process is a fundamental gateway to economic opportunity for all jobseekers. Our goal was to help employers build better systems for discovering great yet underrated talent.