We’ve won yet another award this month! We won Most Effective Use of Technology / Online for the Barclays Capital graduate assessment day at the Recruiter Awards!

When Barcap said that they wanted to use their assessment day to test candidates on a range of competencies throughout the activity, whilst challenging them with real work-place issues, we knew our solution would have to be really interactive. Barcap also wanted to move away from purely paper-based assessment day exercises so as to better connect with Generation Y’ers.

Through video based content, a virtual desktop and mobile communications, we set the candidates a fictional, team based challenge, culminating in a final presentation to their ‘client’. To make it even more realistic, we threw in some twists that we knew would cause them to really think. Watch this space for further details on this ground breaking initiative…