INDUSTRY: TECHNOLOGY

HOW SAFARICOM
HIRES TECH TALENT
IN RECORD TIME

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

HTTPSafaricom
S:/WWW.SAFARICOM.CO.KE/PERSONALis/ the largest telecommunications provider in Kenya.
With over 29 million subscribers and 5,500 employees, the company
prides itself on being one of the leading employers in Kenya.
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THE CHALLENGE
A graduate recruitment program can build The program is designed to prepare future leaders training, our job is to ensure excellent quality
a great pipeline for finding strong, new talent. to assume challenging responsibilities and prepare to avoid potential mishires that can be costly
Because grads are given rigorous training and them for business leadership roles. for the business. We were looking for
an inside look at the day-to-day operations, It encompasses international stints, exposure a platform to help us fill these roles with
it’s a great way to introduce new technical to senior leadership, formal training and quality candidates and at the same time,
employees for the long term. development, and a rigorous evaluation process. really fast-track the process.”
Collectively, this holistic approach aims
The leading tech employer in Kenya, Safaricom, Lydia Omollo,
to accelerate the development of future leaders.
built a successful fast-track graduate program, Talent Acquisition Advisor
training young adepts in IoT, machine learning, “We have an overwhelming volume of
Here’s how Safaricom turned to Codility to screen
and UX design. The Discover Graduate Program applications but the question is always
through 8,000+ applications and match the job
delivers a truly global proposition in the about the quality.
opportunities with critical skillsets.
employment market and accelerates the learning
While there might be thousands
LYDIA OMOLLO and development of technical talent.
of candidates applying for our graduate

Talent Acquisition Advisor

CHALLENGES:

A high volume of candidates Low-quality applications The risk of plagiarism

applying for junior positions. filled the pipeline. on online assessments.
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THE IMPLEMENTATION
Before using online assessments, the team “Our candidates had to come on-site What about candidates trying to find ways
at Safaricom organized campus recruitment for a full day and our engineering team to circumvent an online test?
days to incentivize and inform students spent a lot of time to host these events.
Fast Track
With Codility’s high-scale plagiarism detection
about the opportunities both for graduate
With Codility we’re doing this automatically. and fraud prevention mechanisms, the team
and internship positions.
We no longer have to rent a dedicated at Safaricom could quickly detect 24% of fraud
space for a one-day activity and our results.
engineers can easily assess and review
online submissions to identify the best “With Codility, we can check if the solution
submitted by the candidate is written
CODECHECK
candidates.”
by themselves, and hasn’t been copied
Hesbon Kiptoo, from someone else or from the internet.
Manager, Financial Services Delivery
The platform helps us cross-check every CODELIVE
submitted solution and compare it against
INTERVIEW
With Codility, the team at Safaricom could ditch
manual assessments and introduce fast-track hiring thousands of tests submitted to Codility.
that’s fully remote. Starting with a htCodeCheck
tps:/www.codility.com/product-our/codecheck/ Any suspicious behaviors are quickly flagged
online assessment followed by a quick htCodeLive
tps/:www.codilityc.om/product-tour/codelive/
HESBON KIPTOO and reviewed by the team, ensuring
interview provided a seamless way to reduce the
the integrity of our recruitment process.” HIRE
time spent finding new employees and automating
Manager, the process. Lydia Omollo
Financial Services Delivery Talent Acquisition Advisor
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THE RESULTS
Implementing Codility as a part of graduate recruitment Having a more standardized and transparent
automated the process, improved the overall quality recruitment process improved also the overall candidate
of hires, and increased the speed of hiring at Safaricom. experience and directly impacted the quality of hires,
contributing to Safaricom's employer value proposition
“CodeCheck and CodeLive helped us fill technical
in Kenya.
roles with quality candidates, really fast-tracking
the process. We could quickly determine “Many candidates clearly notice that an online
if the candidate had the right technical aptitude, assessment is used only for the recruitment process.
we were able to detect any cheating attempts
Having a platform such as Codility improves our
and avoid potential mishires.
credibility as the process is fully transparent, fair,
Overall, we screened over 8,000 applications
in less than 3 weeks.” CHRISTOPHER and objective for everyone.”
PETER NJIOKA
KARANI Christopher Karani
Head of Department,
Lydia Omollo
Senior Manager - Resourcing Senior Manager - Resourcing Aquisition, Talent & Capability
Talent Acquisition Advisor
& Talent Management & Talent Management

8,000 Discover Graduate applications screened 230 candidates hired for

with CodeCheck in less than 3 weeks the entry-level tech jobs