Recruiting ·

Video interviewing reduces administrative costs by 80% at Nuclear Graduates

The problem

Nuclear Graduates runs a high-volume graduate recruitment process with a very small recruitment and HR team spanning multiple sponsors and sites, creating a costly and administratively burdensome phone-interview-based process that was difficult to scale.

First attempt

Phone interviews were inconsistent due to the large number of interviewers involved, required outsourcing to manage at scale, and wasted time on scheduling and no-shows.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Online application screening
trigger
“Candidates passing the online application are invited to complete a series of online tests”
2
Online test shortlisting
validation
“are then further shortlisted to complete a Video Interview”
3
Asynchronous video interview
integration
“Modern Hire (now part of HireVue) has directly replaced the telephone interview from our recruitment process”
4
Staff video review
human_review
“two of us watched the video interviews independently and we both arrived at very similar scores”
5
Assessment center
human_review
“the hiring managers from the sponsor companies are involved in the recruitment process for the first time”
6
Offer decision
output
“Offers are made after the centers”
Reported outcome

Video interviewing reduced administrative costs by 80%, eliminated the need to outsource, achieved an 81% completion rate above the platform average, and reached almost 90% candidate satisfaction.

Reported metrics
Administrative costs reduction80%
Scheduling time per interview (before)Average 7 minutes per interview
Scheduling time per interview (after)Seconds for all interviews
Screening interview time (before)30 mins x per candidate
Show all 11 reported metrics
administrative costs reduction80%
scheduling time per interview (before)Average 7 minutes per interview
scheduling time per interview (after)Seconds for all interviews
screening interview time (before)30 mins x per candidate
screening interview time (after)20 mins x per candidate
time lost for no-shows (before)10 mins per Interview
time lost for no-shows (after)0
number of staff required (before)Up to 20
number of staff required (after)2
video interview completion rate81%
candidate satisfactionalmost 90%
Reported stack
Modern HireHireVue
Source
https://www.hirevue.com/case-studies/nuclear-graduates
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

Video interviewing reduced administrative costs by 80%, eliminated the need to outsource, achieved an 81% completion rate above the platform average, and reached almost 90% candidate satisfaction.

What tools did this team use?

Modern Hire, HireVue.

What results were reported?

Administrative costs reduction: 80%; Scheduling time per interview (before): Average 7 minutes per interview; Scheduling time per interview (after): Seconds for all interviews; Screening interview time (before): 30 mins x per candidate (source-reported, not independently verified).

What failed first in this deployment?

Phone interviews were inconsistent due to the large number of interviewers involved, required outsourcing to manage at scale, and wasted time on scheduling and no-shows.

How is this recruiting AI workflow structured?

Online application screening → Online test shortlisting → Asynchronous video interview → Staff video review → Assessment center → Offer decision.