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Why Ant Global Trusts Equip with Tech Hiring

Head-Office

Singapore

team-size

1001-5000 employees

founded

2014

Industry

Financial Services

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About Ant International

As a global leader in digital finance, Ant Group connects people and businesses with accessible financial services through its diverse range of offerings. Known for its flagship product, Alipay, Ant Group links consumers, merchants, and institutions by providing a seamless platform for online payments, wealth management, insurance, and lending services.

From enabling small businesses to manage their operations through digital payments to offering everyday consumers a way to invest and access financial products, Ant Group simplifies complex financial ecosystems and empowers users worldwide.

Ant Group is to financial technology what Alipay is to mobile payments—a trusted infrastructure that facilitates secure, scalable, and innovative solutions. Read on to discover how Ant Group implemented Equip to hire for tech roles in campus hiring drives.

Roles

  • Java Developer, Frontend Developer, R&D Engineer

Skills

  • Java, HTML, CSS

Categories

  • Tech Hiring
  • Campus Hiring

The Challenges

  1. High volume of applicants: Ant Group receives a massive number of applications for roles across different regions, which can be overwhelming for HR teams to manage manually.
  2. Evaluating Specialized Skills: Hiring for highly technical or specialized roles, such as those in fintech or AI, requires more than just a resume check. Identifying candidates with the necessary expertise can be challenging when the skills are niche.
  3. Scaling Global Recruitment Efforts: As corporations expand into new regions, scaling recruitment efforts while maintaining quality becomes difficult, especially when managing teams across different time zones and markets.

The Solution

  1. Implementing pre-employment assessments can help filter candidates more efficiently. By using tailored aptitude tests, companies can quickly shortlist candidates who meet the essential criteria, reducing the time spent on initial screening and ensuring that only the most qualified candidates move forward​.
  2. Role-specific assessments that test for technical proficiency, problem-solving, and domain knowledge can be invaluable. By using coding challenges, financial modeling tests, or scenario-based problem-solving quizzes, companies like Ant Group can ensure candidates have the right skills before moving to the interview stage.
  3. Online, mobile-compatible assessments can streamline global recruitment by allowing candidates to take tests at their convenience, regardless of location. These tools enable HR teams to assess candidates from different regions using the same standardized criteria, ensuring consistency in hiring across the globe.​

Favourite Equip Features

Custom Tests for niche domain specific skills

Adding multiple hiring stakeholders for collaboration

Proctoring features to prevent cheating

Why Equip

Ant Group chose Equip for its hiring needs due to several key features that aligned perfectly with their complex recruitment requirements:

  1. Custom Tests for Niche, Domain-Specific Skills: Ant Group, as a global leader in fintech, requires candidates with highly specialized skills. Equip’s ability to create custom tests, both for coding challenges and multiple-choice questions (MCQs), allowed Ant Group to assess candidates in specific domains essential for their technical and operational roles. This level of customization ensured that only candidates with the right expertise advanced in the hiring process.
  2. Collaboration with Multiple Hiring Stakeholders: Given the scale of Ant Group’s operations, hiring often involves input from various stakeholders across departments and regions. Equip’s feature of adding multiple stakeholders to collaborate on the recruitment process allowed Ant Group to streamline decision-making, ensuring that all key players could review and evaluate candidates efficiently, leading to more informed hiring decisions.
  3. Campus Hiring at Scale: Ant Group’s need to conduct campus hiring assessments asynchronously across multiple locations was crucial to scaling their recruitment efforts. Equip’s platform enabled Ant Group to run large-scale assessments without logistical challenges, allowing candidates from different universities and locations to participate at their convenience. This made the campus recruitment process smoother and more effective, helping the company attract top talent from a broad pool.
  4. Proctoring for Integrity: As a global fintech leader, Ant Group prioritizes the integrity of their assessments, especially for critical roles. Equip’s proctoring features help ensure that candidates are tested in a controlled and secure environment, reducing the risk of cheating and improving the reliability of the results

In short, Ant Group chose Equip because it offered the flexibility, scalability, and collaboration tools necessary to meet the diverse and growing needs of a global corporation.

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