Case Study: Nationwide Building Society achieves faster, fairer, more sustainable hiring with Sova Assessment

Nationwide Building Society achieves 89% accuracy in hiring with Sova Assessment

Nationwide Building Society, a major UK financial institution, sought to overhaul its recruitment process to be more sustainable, fair, and efficient. Their challenge involved reducing manual administrative work for recruiters by 90%, improving the candidate experience with more relevant content, and aligning the hiring strategy with a greener business model. They partnered with assessment vendor Sova to implement a new solution.

Sova provided an end-to-end virtual assessment platform featuring online tests, one-way video interviews, and virtual assessment centres. This solution delivered significant results, including an 89% accuracy rate in identifying top performers and positive candidate feedback, with 97% finding the assessment engaging and 94% reporting a positive impression of Nationwide. The new Sova-powered process also achieved substantial cost savings and enabled more diverse hiring.

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