Case Study: HDFC Bank hires 272 candidates in one day by assessing 1,500+ applicants with SHL's appliance-enabled assessment solution

How Aspiring Minds’ appliance-enabled assessments helped HDFC Bank optimize its recruitment

HDFC Bank, India’s largest private-sector bank with thousands of branches and tens of thousands of employees, faced a massive single-day hiring challenge: assess over 1,500 walk-in applicants across two cities and hire more than 250 people while operating under strict IT security constraints. To meet this scale and speed, SHL was engaged to deliver an appliance-enabled assessment solution that could run off the bank’s network and provide a seamless candidate experience.

SHL deployed LAN-connected appliance assessments with both automated and manual proctoring, immediate result generation, and rapid operational support to ensure smooth delivery. The solution enabled HDFC Bank to assess candidates in batches with results every 30 minutes, leading to 272 on-the-spot offers in one day and detailed score and percentile reports for precise shortlisting — demonstrating SHL’s measurable impact on speed, scale, and hiring quality.

HDFC Bank

Beejal Das

Head Talent Acquisition, and Development Strategy