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Betting on Video: How Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France Rapidly Selects Top Talent

In a market with high volumes of diverse applications, Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France (CADIF) faced a major challenge: identifying the best-fit profiles for open positions quickly, while maintaining a seamless and responsive candidate experience. For the past 6 years, CADIF has utilized pre-recorded video interviews as a core pre-qualification tool. This allows recruiters to detect the most relevant candidates—based on both skills and professional presence—from the very first stages of the process.
How Crédit Agricole IDF Scales Hiring with Video Interviews | CleverConnect

Key Figures

Sector: Banking / Financial Services
Region: Île-de-France
ATS: Teamtailor
CleverConnect Client: Since 6 years
Average Application Volume: 25,000 per year
Video Interviews Completed: 2,000 per year

The Challenge: Rapidly Identifying Top Candidates

Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France receives a massive influx of applications across its various business lines.

The challenge is not just managing the volume, but specifically selecting profiles that align with the Group's expectations regarding skills, professional posture, and interpersonal ease. This must be done within tight deadlines to ensure an optimal candidate experience.

The CleverConnect Solution: A Simple, Integrated Tool

Pre-recroded video interviews allow recruiters to quickly evaluate:

  • Professional posture and soft skills
  • Oral communication quality
  • Structure of speech and syntax (via the written questionnaire)

With its seamless ATS integration, the video interview solution works perfectly within Teamtailor to provide recruiters with a smooth and unified workflow:

  • Sending invitations directly from the ATS.
  • Automating invitations based on internal recruitment rules.
  • Reviewing videos without leaving the ATS platform.

This integration reduces the overall time-to-hire and ensures a positive, reactive journey for the candidates.

The Results: Speed, Quality, and Experience

By using pre-recorded video interviews, Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France is able to:

  • Quickly identify the most relevant candidates within an annual flow of 25,000 applications.
  • Focus HR interviews on highly qualified profiles, ensuring more effective and targeted discussions.
  • Deliver a fluid candidate experience with significantly shorter response times.

Video interviewing has become a sustainable and structural tool that enhances selection quality while simplifying the daily tasks of recruiters.

Conclusion

By placing pre-recorded video interviews at the heart of its process, Crédit Agricole d’Île-de-France successfully combines qualitative selection with an optimal candidate experience.

This model demonstrates that it is possible to manage significant application volumes while rapidly identifying the best talent through a simple, integrated solution for HR teams.

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