recruiting · workflow
Boston Red Sox builds Sales Academy 75% faster with HireVue
The Red Sox Sales Academy needed to identify entry-level candidates with sales potential, passion, and personality — qualities that resumes could not reveal, making it hard to select the best candidates.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Resume limitations trigger change
Resumes provided zero insight into sales potential, passion, and personality, making it hard to determine the best candidates.
Tools used
HireVueOnDemand video interviewing software
Outcome
With HireVue, the Red Sox built the Sales Academy team in less than three weeks — 75% faster than before — and increased promotion rates by 30%, from roughly one quarter to one third of the class, while maintaining an ongoing pipeline of qualified talent.
What failed first
The traditional hiring approach took at least eight weeks and typically saw only about one quarter of each Sales Academy class promoted into full-time jobs.
Results
Time savedless than three weeks
Volume75% faster
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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