Case Study: Fundraising Direct reduces time-to-hire by 80% with HiringBranch

Fundraising Direct Adopts 80% 'No Interview' Model, Reducing Time-to-Hire to 2 Days

Fundraising Direct, a telephone fundraising provider for charities and not-for-profit organizations, needed a better way to screen candidates for the skills that actually drove success. Their manual, interview-based hiring process only captured part of the role requirements, and performance varied widely among new hires despite extensive training.

Using HiringBranch’s AI-powered soft skills assessment, Fundraising Direct created a 20-minute automated speaking test to evaluate seven core skills and predict top performers. The company used the results to hire with far fewer interviews, cutting out 80% of interviews, reducing time-to-hire to just 2 days, lowering hiring costs by 1.5 FTEs, and improving fundraiser sales by 10% for candidates hired through the HiringBranch process.

Fundraising Direct

Sarah Wise

Operations Director