When People Ops scale
smoothly

Running candidate assessment and interview programs for hundreds of applicants sounds straightforward. In practice, universities and training institutes hit the same wall: registrations entered by hand, interview links sent one by one, faculty reviewing every session without scoring or classification. At real scale, it breaks.

Shiprocket set out to solve it properly, not with a workaround, but with an intelligent product.

Shiprocket built W3Grads (w3grads.com), an AI-powered mock interview platform for universities and training institutes, using NEXEN HR as its operational backbone.

The key decision was not to build everything from scratch. NEXEN HR covers the data model, permissions, authentication, and workflow engine, the parts that would have taken months to rebuild, so the team could focus on product-specific logic.

When an applicant registers via QR at a campus event, the system assigns a plan, generates an interview session, and sends a link. The AI conducts the assessment, scores the candidate, and classifies the result. Faculty see where each candidate stands without manually reviewing every session. Building and iterating on these workflows was faster with AI in the loop.

Because the foundation is solid, W3Grads is architected for what comes next, including a payroll and compensation integration for campus hires and nationwide scale without structural rewrites.

Programs that previously needed heavy manual coordination now run end-to-end with automation. Institutions get a scalable, intelligent system; candidates get faster evaluation; Shiprocket shipped a product institutions can build reliable workflows around.

Zero manual work at the core. Full automation. Built on NEXEN HR.