Case Study: Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Company achieves 25% lower cost-per-hire and predicts high performers with Mercer Mettl

How this Pharmaceutical predicted high performers before hiring to reduce attrition

Healthcare And Pharmaceutical Company, a global, fully integrated healthcare and pharmaceutical leader, faced intense competition for talent and needed to turn hiring into a strategic advantage. Their specific challenge was to predict high performers before onboarding to reduce attrition and improve hiring quality, so they engaged Mercer Mettl to provide sophisticated pre-hire assessments and an online, secure testing platform.

Mercer Mettl implemented a tailored solution: benchmarking existing high performers, identifying and refining the competencies that predict success, and delivering targeted online assessments against that benchmark. The assessments produced a 70% correlation with on-the-job performance, helped the company reduce attrition by filtering out poor fits at interview stage, moved testing online to improve candidate experience, and lowered cost per hire by 25%.