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Walmart hires more than 400k new associates using Virtual Job Tryout pre-hire assessment
Walmart needed a scientifically rigorous, high-volume pre-hire assessment capable of processing thousands of daily applicants while maintaining validity as the job and work environment changed, and delivering a positive candidate experience — especially because Walmart's applicants are also its customers.
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 · Candidate enters high-volume pipeline
Thousands of applicants per day initiate the hiring process.
Tools used
Virtual Job TryoutModern HireHireVue
Outcome
Walmart hired more than 400k new associates using the Retail Associate Assessment, achieving 95% completion rates and near-unanimous candidate recommendation rates, while generating a multi-million return on investment by eliminating replacement costs from not hiring the lowest-scoring candidates.
Results
Time savedmore than 400k
Volume95%
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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