How Reach HR cut time-to-hire by more than half.

Hiring is expensive before anyone is even hired. The average single hire runs about $4,129 and takes three to four weeks, a real investment of time and money for the employer and the applicant alike. Reach HR, a consultancy in talent and organizational development, set out to make that process faster and fairer, and to make it feel better for the people going through it.

The problem: hiring by logistics

Reach HR works hand in hand with clients to build an ideal profile for each open role, then assesses candidates against it. Done in person, that was heavy going.

The main problem was the large volume of logistical, communication, and coordination work it involved. The recruitment process was very long, and candidates had to invest up to four hours of their time to go through the stages of evaluation.Reach HR

They had tried moving to virtual tools, and the shift to remote hiring made the need urgent: they wanted objective evaluations that solved the old problems rather than just moving them online.

Measuring skills in a familiar inbox

Move the evidence earlier, and the rest of hiring gets shorter.

Reach HR found its fit in CapsimInbox. For each role, they translate the profile into a set of competencies, then measure candidates on those competencies inside a simulated email inbox, the one context almost every candidate already knows.

We build an ideal profile based on a combination of competencies that are then measured through CapsimInbox with a high level of validity.Reach HR

The inbox scores each candidate objectively, on the specific skills a role needs, soft and technical, in situations pulled from real work: it reads leadership, problem-solving, and communication from what a candidate actually does. That evidence doesn't make the hiring decision. It informs it. Reach HR's clients get a clear, comparable read, so interviews go to the people who are genuinely qualified.

Faster, and better for candidates

Screening on evidence up front changed the math. With the evidence in front of them, hiring teams stopped advancing unqualified candidates, and Reach HR cut its clients' time-to-hire by more than 50% while giving applicants back the hours the old process demanded. The experience improved too, precisely because the test looks like the job.

It simulates a familiar environment for the candidate. From the beginning, the candidate feels comfortable with the circumstance they find themselves in.Reach HR

Reach HR walks through the whole approach in a short video, and ends on the reason it stuck: a safe, objective way to evaluate whatever skill a role calls for.