“Any new hire must go through AbilityMap. That’s the mandate.”
Rapidly growing Australian travel insurance provider, Fast Cover, use AbilityMap to keep up with the hiring demands of a growing business.
Fast Cover provides straightforward travel insurance that helps Australians explore with confidence. Their policies cover a range of needs, from adventure sports to family holidays, ensuring that travellers can focus on their journey without worrying about mishaps.
From their first hire, Fast Cover significantly improved their recruitment efficiency, with faster hiring times and more accurate placements. We spoke to CEO Dean to find out what they liked about the platform.
Challenge
“We wasted time training, onboarding and working with them, and then we wasted time cleaning up the mess afterwards.”
Fast Cover needed to address significant inefficiencies in its hiring process. Their methods were time-consuming and often resulted in mismatches, which drained productivity and morale.
They needed a solution to streamline hiring, provide clear candidate evaluations and ensure the right talent was matched to the right roles.
Solution
“It’s taken hours of interviews down to a point where we only speak to the best candidates.”
Fast Cover integrated AbilityMap to leverage its scientific, data-driven approach. AbilityMap’s platform offered comprehensive capability assessments and immediate insights into candidate suitability, shifting the focus from subjective to objective hiring practices.
Implementation
“It saves us time and speeds up the process. It’s like having a third person in the interview.”
Using AbilityMap, Fast Cover upgraded their hiring strategy to include the following:
- Capability Assessments: They used detailed evaluations of the skills and attributes required for each role for precise candidate-role matching.
- Instant Job Matching: They could quickly identify top candidates, reducing time spent on initial screenings and interviews.
- Clear Insights: They gained user-friendly reports and insights to help hiring managers make informed decisions swiftly and confidently.
Results
“In 18 months we went from 5 people to 30 people. And everyone went through AbilityMap”
Fast Cover saw notable improvements after bringing AbilityMap on board. The average hiring time was significantly reduced, enabling them to fill crucial positions faster. Enhanced candidate role-matching led to higher quality hires, better performance and satisfaction. And the workflow became generally more efficient and less subjective.
Fast Cover’s experience with AbilityMap highlights the importance of data-driven hiring solutions. They improved their hiring efficiency and ensured talent alignment with business needs.
Lessons Learned
“I was ready to hire them, and then they come back with 30 or 40% on AbilityMap. And I was like, there’s no way.”
Dean noted that getting the best results from AbilityMap has involved some fine-tuning. He’s had to move the assessment earlier on in the hiring process, due to the disappointment of favourite candidates performing poorly on AbilityMap.
It was, he said, a clear ‘no’ if a candidate’s assessment had a low score. So, they moved the assessment to the start of the recruitment journey.
Going forward, Dean plans to continue to use AbilityMap for every hire – he says he won’t hire without it. Find out more about the recruitment software he uses to see it for yourself.
