The Challenge

The Axis Bank Young Bankers (ABYB) Program is designed to help future industry leaders grow through a one-year residential program.

The ABYB Program scaled quickly, attracting more than 20,000 candidates a year across 33 cities. Axis Bank required a reliable, standardized, and scalable assessment solution to identify and hire top candidates quickly.

To achieve this goal, the assessment solution needed to:

• evaluate candidates in multiple locations in a short amount of time
• have remote testing capabilities to screen a high volume of candidates
• give both Axis Bank and candidates confidence that the selection process was fair and accurate.

The Solution

Aspiring Minds, an SHL company, understood that having a standard and efficient assessment solution was critical to ABYB.

We provided a hiring solution consisting of four online testing components:

• Video Interview with AI-scoring to identify candidates most likely to possess the competencies to work in a competitive banking environment
• Cognitive Test to determine which candidates possessed the necessary cognitive abilities to succeed in financial services
• Sales Situational Judgment Test to identify prospects who can thrive under pressure
• Personality Assessment to establish likelihood of success in specific roles and positions

The multi-dimensional assessment solution allowed Axis Bank to roll out the same evaluation process in 33 different locations at the same time and in the span of just ten days.