Case Study: Daugherty advances early career success with HackerRank

Empowering the Next Generation: How Daugherty’s Access Point Program and HackerRank propel Early Career Success

Daugherty, the St. Louis-based IT consulting firm behind the Access Point program, needed a way to consistently assess, track, and grow technical skills for early-career candidates while improving transparency for employers. To support this workforce development initiative, Daugherty partnered with HackerRank and used its platform for candidate testing, skill progression, and real-world coding practice.

HackerRank provided Daugherty with customizable challenges, live interview tools, plagiarism detection, and detailed reporting to create a scalable training and evaluation process. With HackerRank, Access Point students completed around 4,000 tests in a year, and the program placed 75 students into apprenticeships and full-time roles, generating about $4.5 million in regional revenue.

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Jayson Vincent

Division Leader of Software Architecture and Engineering