Transforming Senior Hiring at NoPo Nanotechnologies

Since 2011, NoPo Nanotechnologies has been at the forefront of pioneering research and development in Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes and their applications. As NoPo is setting up a new plant, they are on the lookout for a seasoned professional to take on the pivotal role of Quality Head.

Industry

Manufacturing

Use Case

Job Simulation

Geography

India

Corporate functions

Operations

What Nanotechnologies Achieved?

Achieved a top-notch hire in just one day using our platform.

80%

Reduced hiring manager time spent by

1 Day

Secured high quality hire within 1 day of using the platform

100%

Digitalized 100% the creation and evaluation of domain-based assessment

5 hrs

Saved 3 hours daily by automatically reviewing 100+ assessments

Client's Complications

Our Solutions

Our Delivered Impact

Client's Complications

NoPo Nanotechnologies is experiencing rapid growth, bringing both exciting opportunities and significant challenges. With a surge in customer requests, the need to expand production capacity has become critical. The new production facility demands an experienced Head of Quality Management to establish a robust Quality Management System, oversee every production aspect, and ensure output quality meets customer requirements. In an industry prone to deviations, this role requires meticulous attention to detail and precision.

The executive team emphasizes the importance of seniority and domain expertise in their new hire. They seek a candidate who can seamlessly set up and commission the new plant, ensuring process excellence from day one. However, their current hiring process has hit a roadblock. Top-performing interviewees often underperform in the final technical round, creating a significant challenge in securing a successful hire who can thrive in real-world scenarios.

NoPo Nanotechnologies sought a partner to streamline their hiring process and guarantee a successful, high-quality hire. They aimed to overcome the following challenges:

Losing Valuable Hiring Time

The hiring process starts with a fit interview, followed by a technical round conducted by the Co-founders. However, this approach requires significant time and effort from the Co-founders to manually screen and interview shortlisted candidates. The effort is further intensified by the use of take-home assignments, which hiring managers must create and review. Despite the best submissions, candidates often perform poorly in the technical round, leading to considerable time lost in securing this senior position. This situation has prompted NoPo Nanotechnologies to seek a solution that streamlines the process and accurately tests candidates’ domain expertise through real on-the-job challenges.

Difficulty in Gauging Candidate’s Domain Expertise

The use of take-home assignments has proven to be an unreliable predictor of domain expertise and on-the-job success. Despite high-quality submissions, many top-performing candidates struggle during face-to-face interviews when confronted with on-the-spot technical questions. This discrepancy arises because candidates can spend hours perfecting their take-home assignments using various resources, creating a misleading impression of their true capabilities. This phenomenon highlights the need for a more effective assessment method that accurately reflects candidates’ real-time problem-solving skills and domain expertise.

Our Solutions

Understanding these hiring challenges, HirewithEve.ai, specializing in job simulation, created a tailored assessment replicating on-the-job challenges and automatically scoring expertise using an advanced AI model to help NoPo Nanotechnologies to secure a successful hire.

Workshop with Subject Matter Experts

Our subject matter experts collaborated with the hiring team to understand their roles and the areas of domain expertise they wanted to test. Based on this understanding, we created a case assessment with compelling questions reflecting real-world challenges faced by a Head of Quality. We also developed a customized scoring mechanism to grade the skills an ideal candidate should possess.

AI-Powered Comprehensive Assessment of Candidates’ Capabilities

Leveraging the power of a Large Language Model, our AI analyzes text-based responses from candidates in a highly nuanced manner, capturing both hard and soft skills. Throughout the case, our model assesses candidates on:

Problem Solving: Ability to break down complex problems into manageable parts with clear hypotheses.
Structured Thinking: Ability to organize thoughts logically and coherently.
Domain Expertise: Comparing candidates’ answers to reference answers built by our subject matter experts and NoPo, our model highlights key strengths and flags knowledge gaps. Unlike traditional keyword matching technology, our AI captures the intent of candidates’ answers and assesses their relevance to NoPo’s requirements.
Business English Proficiency: Trained according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), our AI effectively assesses candidates’ command of English in a business context, evaluating vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, cohesion, coherence, and professional tone.

Interactivity with EVE - Our AI Assistant

Throughout the assessment, EVE acts as an interviewer, clarifying information and guiding candidates through tough questions. This showcases candidates’ coachability and their ability to receive feedback, improve, and succeed. All this information is reflected in a report, allowing interviewers to see if candidates asked the right questions and how quickly they recovered from difficulties.

Automatic Candidate Reporting & Ranking

In seconds after candidates complete their assessment, the hiring team receives individual assessment reports and rankings among a large pool of candidates. Our interactive dashboard provides multilayered benchmarking, enabling recruiters to easily identify top performers based on their criteria.

“HirewithEve.ai’s tool effectively evaluated senior candidates on structured thinking, communication, and problem-solving in real scenarios. It provided clear insights into their capabilities, approach, and areas for development, making it a valuable benchmarking tool for future hires.”

Arunima Patel

Co-founder & Chief Business Officer

NoPo Nanotechnologies

Our Delivered Impact

HirewithEve.ai digitizes domain-based assessments without compromising candidate experience.
Our AI-powered job simulation assesses candidates’ true potential to succeed on the job
The automated grading system expedites the interview process, saving time.
NoPo Nanotechnologies significantly improved candidate quality using HirewithEve.ai’s skill-based simulation assessment.
Within just one day of using the assessment, the hiring team made an informed decision on a successful candidate for the senior position of Head of Quality.