License to hire - Courageous Recruitment
2024
Client
Vattenfal

The Challenge
Hiring decisions shape the future of any organization. Yet too often, recruitment is guided by gut feeling, unconscious biases, and outdated hiring practices that exclude great talent. Vattenfall recognized this challenge and took bold action—creating License to Hire, an interactive learning experience designed to redefine recruitment, challenge biases, and professionalize hiring across the company.
With thousands of hiring managers making critical talent decisions every day, Vattenfall needed more than just another training—it needed a game-changing experience that would shift mindsets and behaviors at scale.
Results
License to Hire is an immersive, interactive digital learning journey that puts hiring managers in real-world recruitment scenarios.
Using high-quality interactive video, gamification, and scenario-based learning, participants experience firsthand how bias affects hiring decisions, how to evaluate candidates fairly, and how to balance business needs with long-term talent growth.
- Thousands of hiring managers gained the skills to hire with structure, fairness, and strategic insight.
- Every Vattenfall recruiter worldwide completed the experience, embedding a consistent hiring standard across the company.
- A scalable, high-impact solution that ensures all hiring managers follow best practices—improving hiring quality at every level.
- Real Vattenfall employees shared their experiences, demonstrating how these insights led to tangible hiring improvements with real business impact.