Hiring 400 warehouse operatives, in seven weeks, with fewer interviews.
High-volume, seasonal, time-pressured. Logistics hiring fails when CV screening lets through the wrong people — and the cost shows up as week-three attrition. ThriveMap replaces the phone screen with the work itself.
"By the end of week one, you can usually tell who'll still be here at Christmas. ThriveMap moved that conversation to before the offer letter, not after."
The numbers that make seasonal hiring so expensive.
Three things that don't show up on the CV.
The work is physical and sustained
A CV doesn't tell you whether someone can handle 8 hours on their feet, repeated lifting, and the cognitive fatigue that builds across a shift. Candidates either know they can do this or they don't — but most have no way to tell before they try.
Pace and accuracy trade off
Pickers, packers, and operatives are scored on both speed and error rate. The candidates who succeed long-term tend to have a particular pattern of trade-offs — not always fastest, never sloppiest. That pattern is invisible on a CV but obvious in a realistic scenario.
Handover habits matter more than they should
Shift work depends on what one team passes to the next. The difference between a great operative and an OK one is often whether they instinctively brief the next shift — and that habit is built early, in the first weeks of the job, or never built at all.
Three steps from application to interview-ready candidate.
Candidate applies
Mobile-first application form, optimised for high-volume warehouse hiring. Single link.
Realistic assessment
12 minutes of warehouse-specific scenarios — delivery timing, shift handover, pace vs accuracy trade-offs. Candidates self-select.
Score, sorted, ready to interview
Your team interviews the strong fits only. Fit score sits on the candidate record in your ATS, with the reasoning behind it.
The single biggest predictor of who’ll still be there at Christmas isn’t what’s on the CV — it’s whether the candidate can describe what happens at 3pm on a Tuesday when the work gets hard.
See what this looks like for your warehouses.
A 30-minute call with someone who's set up assessments for logistics employers. No slide deck — just your roles, your peak window, and what good hiring looks like at your scale.