Case Study: YES Prep Public Schools achieves faster, more insightful candidate screening with Spark Hire

How YES Prep Public Schools Uses Spark Hire To Learn More About Their Candidates In Less Time

YES Prep Public Schools is an open-enrollment charter system in Houston serving 12,600 students across 17 schools and hiring roughly 350 people annually. Their previous process relied on hour-long phone screens after written applications, which was time-consuming for staff and didn’t give candidates a way to demonstrate presentation skills or share their stories beyond essays.

YES Prep adopted Spark Hire’s video interviewing—an easy-to-implement, cost-effective solution—to replace phone screens with 10–20 minute video responses. The platform lets hiring managers screen candidates on demand, helps candidates showcase fit and communication, and, coupled with a standardized rubric, has made hiring faster, more objective, and widely usable across instructional and non-instructional roles.

YES Prep Public Schools

Michelle Burgess

Senior Director of Talent Acquisition