Case Study: UNDP hires senior leaders in 120 countries with VidCruiter

UNDP Hires Senior Leadership in 120 Countries with VidCruiter

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) needed to recruit 120 senior leaders across 120 countries within four months while strictly following UN recruitment policies, managing time zones and connectivity challenges, and ensuring a fair, standardized process. UNDP selected VidCruiter to provide Pre-Recorded Video Interviews, Live Video Interviews and Skills Testing to meet these demanding requirements.

VidCruiter delivered an end-to-end digital hiring solution—asynchronous and live video interviews, language assessments, anonymized skills tests and shareable candidate profiles—enabling efficient stakeholder collaboration and blind rating. The result: UNDP hired the leaders on time and on budget across 120 countries, reduced time-to-hire by about 50%, improved fairness and gender balance, maintained hiring through COVID-19, reduced manual work and paper waste, and earned an Innovation in Recruitment Award, leading to broader rollout of VidCruiter across UN offices.

UNDP

Georg Peitchev

Human Resource Specialist