Case Study: Albert Heijn achieves 40% faster time-to-hire with Harver

Albert Heijn empowered store managers to hire 40% faster

Albert Heijn, the Dutch supermarket chain with over 1,000 stores and around 100,000 employees, struggled with decentralized hiring: store managers were spending hours screening CVs and scheduling interviews, pushing average time to hire to 20–30 days and causing many candidates to drop out. To tackle this, Albert Heijn partnered with Harver to digitally transform their frontline recruitment.

Harver delivered a mobile-first hiring platform with situational judgement tests, instant notifications, automated interview scheduling and multi-location hiring, enabling interviews within 24 hours and a 10-minute application experience. The Harver solution reduced overall time to hire by 40%, resulted in 60% of candidates being hired within 10 days, achieved a ~10-minute application completed by 98% of applicants within a day, and freed store managers from repetitive tasks while improving candidate experience.

Albert Heijn

Martijn Ulehake

Employer Branding Specialist