HirePro Runs Its Artificial Intelligence on AWS to Deliver Frictionless Virtual Hiring

With remote hiring, candidates don’t have to spend hours commuting to assessment and interview venues, which typically takes half a day and delays scheduling. “If candidates don’t have to travel, they become available much faster. Our customers might ask a candidate to take a test or attend an interview, and they can do it on the same day,” explains Ashish Goyal, chief technology officer at HirePro.

On the other side of the hiring table, customers no longer have to send a group of staff members to recruitment events in other cities, allowing them to save on travel and accommodation expenses. In one example, a multinational enterprise reduced its campus hiring cycle from 13 weeks to 3 weeks by using HirePro’s AI-led recruitment platform. When the customer’s hiring teams had to visit colleges to set up and conduct events, they could conduct a maximum of three events per day. Now, the same company concludes 25 digital campus recruitment events per day.

In the first year of launching its AI-proctored assessments platform, HirePro conducted 50,000 fraud-proof assessments. Two years later, it conducted 50,000 AI-proctored assessments in just 1 day. “AWS has helped us tremendously in scaling up to this level and has given us some critical building blocks to develop our proprietary AI models,” says Goyal.

The time savings associated with HirePro’s recruitment platform has led to a substantial cost reduction as well. Most of HirePro’s customers are enterprises with large hiring volumes spanning from 500 to 500,000 candidates per month. Though savings vary by customer, a company that used HirePro’s proctoring platform to remotely interview 100,000 candidates per year reported a $50 million return on its investment.

The quality of hires also improves with HirePro’s proctoring platform. To verify the identity of each candidate, the platform uses AWS and in-house machine learning (ML) tools to compare the registered candidate with the person taking the test, and subsequently attending the interview and being onboarded. The platform detects anomalies, for example, if a different person is attending the test or interview, if someone is helping the candidate, or if the candidate is obtaining answers from unapproved external sources.

HirePro estimates that companies using its platform to screen candidates save 3–6 months’ processing time per bad hire that could result from impersonation during the recruitment process. And candidates appreciate employers with professional and modern hiring practices that value an individual’s time. “Candidates have an enriched experience interacting with our platform, which creates a constructive perception about the employer’s brand. A strong employer brand helps to attract good candidates who tend to stay with companies longer,” Goyal explains.

Furthermore, companies using HirePro’s recruitment platform can extend their geographical reach and eliminate hiring bias to improve diversity. “Candidates in remote locations now have equal access to opportunities, whereas they previously may not have been able to attend in-person recruitment events,” adds Goyal.