// --- // const showEmployerPortal = false; // // if (!showEmployerPortal) { // throw Astro.redirect('/portfolio/chapta-candidate-app'); // } // // import WorkLayout from '../../layouts/WorkLayout.astro'; // import Seo from '@/components/seo/Seo.astro'; // import FullScreenImageAsset from '../../components/global/FullScreenImageAsset.astro'; // import { Check, Brain, Target, Zap, Shield, MessageSquare, TrendingUp, Users, Heart, Sparkles, Upload, Link2, Mail, BarChart3, Eye, UserCheck, FileText } from 'lucide-astro'; // // // Import images for WorkLayout // import chaptalogo from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-logo.png'; // import chaptaCover from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // // // Import placeholder images for sections // import jobCreationInterface from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // import candidateCarousel from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // import candidateFullStory from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // import emailTemplateBuilder from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // import analyticsDashboard from '@/images/portfolio/chapta/chapta-employer-cover.webp'; // // // SEO metadata // const seoTitle = "How Chapta Transformed Hiring by Moving Beyond CVs to Candidate Stories | OpenKit Case Study"; // const seoDescription = "Chapta replaces CV spam with rich candidate profiles, AI-powered job creation, and mutual interest. Hire quality candidates in minutes, not months."; // // // Critical issues employers face // const problems = [ // { // title: "CVs Hide Cultural Fit", // description: "Resumes reveal skills but hide values, working style, and whether someone will thrive in your culture." // }, // { // title: "Blind Applications Waste Time", // description: "Candidates mass-apply without genuine interest. You spend hours screening people who aren't serious." // }, // { // title: "No Matching Transparency", // description: "Job boards show you candidates without explanation. You're left guessing why algorithms matched them." // }, // { // title: "Cultural Mismatches Cost Money", // description: "Hiring someone technically qualified who doesn't fit culture leads to turnover within months." // } // ]; // // // How Chapta solves these // const solutions = [ // { // title: "Rich Candidate Stories Replace CVs", // description: "15-minute AI conversations capture values, aspirations, working styles, and career goals. Read narratives that explain the 'why' behind every career move." // }, // { // title: "Mutual Interest Eliminates Blind Applications", // description: "Both you and candidates must express interest before contact. Every candidate in your pipeline genuinely wants your role." // }, // { // title: "Explainable Matching With Analytics", // description: "See why candidates matched across salary, experience, location, industry, role fit, and work arrangement. Transparent scoring lets you understand every decision." // } // ]; // // // Key features // const employerFeatures = [ // { // icon: FileText, // title: "Create Jobs in Minutes", // description: "Upload PDF, paste URL, or fill a form. AI extracts structure for quick review and publishing" // }, // { // icon: Users, // title: "Read Stories, Not Resumes", // description: "Rich candidate profiles with narratives, work experience timelines, assessments, and cultural insights" // }, // { // icon: Eye, // title: "Efficient Carousel Review", // description: "Swipe through candidates horizontally. See summaries on cards, deep dive into full stories when interested" // }, // { // icon: UserCheck, // title: "Mutual Interest Required", // description: "No blind applications. Every candidate wants the role before appearing in your 'Responded' tab" // }, // { // icon: BarChart3, // title: "Transparent Analytics", // description: "Track matches, responses, conversion rates per job. Understand which roles attract strong candidates" // }, // { // icon: Mail, // title: "Professional Communication", // description: "Email template builder, contact tracking, and rejection feedback system built into the platform" // } // ]; // // // Job creation methods // const jobCreationMethods = [ // { // icon: FileText, // title: "Manual Entry", // description: "Fill a structured form with real-time validation. Quick for jobs you know well.", // features: ["Field validation", "Character counts", "Missing field highlights", "Salary suggestions"] // }, // { // icon: Upload, // title: "File Upload (AI Parsing)", // description: "Upload PDF or Word document. AI extracts title, location, responsibilities, salary.", // features: ["PDF support", "DOCX support", "Auto-extraction", "Review before publishing"] // }, // { // icon: Link2, // title: "URL Import", // description: "Paste job posting URL from LinkedIn, Indeed, or company site. AI parses content.", // features: ["LinkedIn jobs", "Indeed jobs", "Company career pages", "Clean extraction"] // } // ]; // // // Candidate tabs // const candidateTabs = [ // { // title: "Matches to Review", // description: "Initial algorithmic matches. Filter to 'Strong Only' for high-confidence matches (score >75).", // purpose: "First review of recommended candidates" // }, // { // title: "Awaiting Response", // description: "Candidates you've expressed interest in. Waiting for them to accept or reject.", // purpose: "Track pending invitations and follow ups" // }, // { // title: "Responded", // description: "Candidates who've accepted your interest. Mutual interest achieved. Filter to 'Uncontacted Only'.", // purpose: "Candidates ready for direct contact and interviews" // }, // { // title: "Not Suitable", // description: "Candidates you've rejected with feedback. Option to undo and restore.", // purpose: "Audit trail with ability to reverse decisions" // } // ]; // // --- // // // // // //
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Reimagining hiring for the FMCG sector

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The Bottom Line

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// Recruitment through traditional job boards presents significant operational challenges for employers: high volumes of applications from unqualified candidates, limited insight into cultural fit, and difficulty assessing authentic candidate interest. Chapta addresses these challenges through comprehensive candidate narratives that replace traditional CVs, AI-assisted job creation that operates at scale without sacrificing quality, and a mutual interest framework that ensures every candidate in your pipeline genuinely wants the opportunity. This approach fundamentally reorients hiring from a volume-based process to one centred on quality and sustainable outcomes. //

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What Is the Chapta Employer Portal?

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// The Chapta employer portal transforms recruitment operations for FMCG sector roles through a foundation of rich candidate narratives and mutual interest engagement. Rather than posting positions and managing high volumes of applications from less-qualified candidates, you create job listings in minutes using AI-assisted parsing. The platform presents candidate matches as comprehensive narrative profiles that extend far beyond traditional keyword scanning of CVs, providing genuine insight into candidate potential, working style, and cultural alignment. //

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// The platform evaluates candidate alignment across six distinct dimensions and provides transparent explanations for each match determination. When you identify a candidate of strong interest, you express your intent directly. Candidates review your role details and company information, then decide whether they want to proceed with engagement. Contact information is shared only after both parties have indicated explicit, genuine interest—fundamentally eliminating speculative applications and unqualified outreach. //

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The Challenge: Limitations of Traditional Hiring Systems

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// Traditional recruitment systems have commodified hiring by reducing candidates to keyword-scanned CV profiles. When you post a role, you typically receive substantial application volumes from candidates who have conducted limited research on the position or organisation. These applications often come from candidates mass-applying across numerous opportunities rather than pursuing positions of genuine interest. Screening these applications consumes significant organisational time without proportional quality benefits. Technical interviews frequently reveal fundamental misalignments that careful evaluation of candidate narratives would have identified earlier. //

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// The underlying incentive structure of these systems optimizes for application volume rather than quality hiring outcomes. Resume formats provide insufficient insight into cultural alignment, working style preferences, or long-term retention indicators. Traditional qualifications and experience listings cannot predict sustained performance in roles requiring specific interpersonal dynamics or organizational cultural integration. These limitations force employers to rely on prolonged interview processes to assess factors that comprehensive candidate narratives could illuminate much earlier in evaluation. //

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The Critical Issues Employers Face

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Our Solution: Hiring Reimagined

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// Chapta is built on the principle that candidates are complete professionals with authentic narratives that extend far beyond traditional CV formats. For employers, this translates into access to information that genuinely predicts long-term success and cultural fit: professional values, working style preferences, motivations, collaboration approaches, and career aspirations. This comprehensive insight enables more accurate assessment during the matching phase, reducing reliance on extended interview cycles to identify fundamental misalignments. The platform enables employers to make better hiring decisions more efficiently while respecting both candidate and organisational time. //

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What Chapta Does for Employers

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// The Chapta employer portal handles every stage of hiring - from job creation through candidate review to communication and analytics. //

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Job Creation: Three Methods, All AI-Powered

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Quick Form Pre-Fill

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// When you upload a PDF or paste a URL, Chapta intelligently pre-fills key job details - title, location, work arrangement, responsibilities, qualifications, salary range, and benefits. You review, edit any field, add missing information, and publish. Total time: under 5 minutes. //

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Candidate Discovery & Review

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// Chapta presents candidates through a carousel interface that emphasises stories, achievements, and cultural fit over traditional CV formats. //

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Candidate Full Story Page

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Push notification: "An employer is interested in you!" Job is highlighted in their app.

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Communication Tools

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Why This Matters

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// Chapta proves that hiring can prioritise quality over quantity whilst being efficient. Candidates aren't CVs with keywords - they're people with stories that predict cultural fit and long-term success. //

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Employer Insight

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// You gain access to information CVs never provide: values, working styles, motivations, collaboration approaches, career aspirations. This insight enables better cultural fit assessment before investing time in interviews. //

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Quality Matches

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// Mutual interest requirement means every candidate in your "Responded" tab genuinely wants your role. No more blind applications from people who haven't read the job description. //

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Efficiency

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// AI-powered job creation (under 5 minutes), carousel candidate review (swipe through quickly), and built-in communication tools reduce time spent on administrative hiring tasks. //

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Ready to Hire Through Stories?

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// Schedule a demo to explore the Chapta employer portal for FMCG sector hiring, create your company profile, and start reviewing matched candidates. No subscription fees - transparent, fixed-fee pricing available on request. //

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