Sopra Steria, is the largest provider of critical business support services for Government clients. They deliver core and specialist solutions, including resourcing services, HR and payroll. Within Talent Acquisition they provide end-to-end recruitment services including attraction, selection, and onboarding.
Industry
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Main Challenges
1,100 Applications To Review
Key benefit
Hiring Top Talent
Oleeo’s AI Candidate Screening and Selection tool redefines the standard for modern recruitment
By integrating AI-driven screening and selection, they have cut sifting time by 50%, ensuring top talent gets to an interview faster than ever before.
The Challenge
To find top talent in a mountain of 1,100+ AI generated applications
Sopra Steria was struggling to find top talent in a sea of 1,100+ applications. In an era where AI tools and SEO keywords make every candidate look flawless on screen, ‘perfect’ had become the new white noise. Lacking the resources to manually vet every lead, they needed a way to peel back that synthetic polish and reveal the genuine talent hidden underneath.
The Solution
Deploying AI Candidate Screening and Selection Tool: Oleeo Select
Sopra Steria integrated Oleeo’s AI Candidate Screening and Selection tool, Oleeo Select, to transform the evaluation of 1,100 applications.
The objective was to maintain high-precision selection standards in a high-volume environment where manual screening was no longer operationally viable.
To ensure absolute precision, the platform performed a deep-dive analysis of three distinct behavioural dimensions per candidate. By rigorously benchmarking every response against standardised, evidence-based criteria, Oleeo Select achieved a level of granular accuracy that traditional screening simply cannot match.
The Results
By implementing Oleeo Select, Sopra Steria achieved an unprecedented 50% reduction in screening time while maintaining 90% alignment with human expert judgment.
Operational Efficiency
Achieved a 50% reduction in time-to-process, effectively doubling recruiter bandwidth.
90% of applications were processed in under 11 minutes, with a lean average of just 5.2 minutes—shaving more than 17 minutes off the manual baseline of 22.5 minutes.
Delivered a 20% uplift in accuracy compared to manual baseline methods
Diversity & Compliance
29% improvement in diversity over traditional human decision-making.
Pass rates across all protected characteristics, including Ethnicity, Gender, Age, Sexuality, and Disability – consistently remained within the ‘Green Zone’ for compliance and fairness.
“Oleeo’s AI Candidate Screening and Selection Tool makes selecting high quality candidates so much faster & consistent.”
Marc Jenkins
Head of Major Programmes, Sopra Steria
A Partnership of Purpose
Hiring for highly regulated roles is notoriously difficult. Oleeo’s alliance with Sopra Steria changes that by making the process more transparent and evidence-based. We’re moving beyond ‘keyword matching’ to help the public sector find talent based on real-world capability, ensuring every hiring decision is both smart and defensible.
Mutual Trust: Our history with high-stakes projects (like recruiting for the Met Police) means we’ve moved past a standard partnership. We work as one unified team with a single mission.
Innovation with a Soul: We use AI to make government hiring feel less like a machine. Our goal is a faster, fairer process that clearly highlights candidate’s actual potential.
“For a company like Sopra Steria, quality is inseparable from ethics. Oleeo and Sopra Steria’s responsible AI approach ensures that every recommendation is evidence-based, keeping our human recruiters firmly in control of the final decision-making process.”
