3 reasons your hiring team should be using Virtual Assessment Centre 2.0

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Virtual Assessment Centre 2.0 completely rethinks the virtual assessment centre experience, giving candidates more clarity on what comes next, assessors the tools to evaluate well, and your team the confidence to scale without compromising on quality.  

1. Assessors arrive prepared, and stay in control on the day

Assessors are your most critical resource on assessment day. They need to be trained in effective assessment methods, briefed on the process, and ready to evaluate fairly,  often across back-to-back sessions with little time to pause. Historically, that meant sifting through documents outside the platform, arriving with limited visibility of the day's schedule, and navigating an outdated interface that slowed them down rather than supporting them.

VAC 2.0 changes that:

• Redesigned assessor homepage: a modern, intuitive layout with session timing and completion status visible at a glance, so assessors can arrive prepared without the need for external documents  

• Clear session states: ready to start, in progress, and completed are immediately visible, so assessors always know exactly where they are

• Flexible submission: assessors can revisit and update a submitted exercise with clear guidance, turning what was previously a dead end into a straightforward correction

When assessors feel prepared and in control, the quality of your evaluations improves, and so do your hiring decisions.

2. Less back and forth, more time where it counts

Coordinating live assessment sessions has traditionally meant a lot of back-and-forth: chasing candidate availability, confirming assessor timetables, and managing last-minute changes manually. At volume, this becomes a significant drain on your team's time.

VAC 2.0 automates the coordination loop:

• Candidate self-scheduling: where enabled, candidates book their own sessions, eliminating the back-and-forth entirely

• Automated Assessor Schedule Summary emails: triggered automatically when sessions are confirmed or updated, with cancellations flagged clearly in the subject line — no manual chasing required

Before any of this goes live, admins can preview both the candidate and assessor experience in full, catching anything that needs adjusting before the first candidate logs in.

3. Candidates can focus on what matters

Confusion about what comes next is one of the most common complaints from live assessment days. When candidates are uncertain where they should be or which exercise is next, they can't focus on the work, and you don't get to see what they're capable of.

VAC 2.0 removes the uncertainty:

• Dedicated Activities view — at every stage, candidates see exactly where they are in the process and what's coming next

• Built-in accessibility — designed to meet WCAG 2.2 AA standards, so the experience works for every candidate

This means that candidates can focus on completing tasks, rather than figuring out the process.  

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Why this matters for your hiring team:

Hiring teams are accountable for three things: the quality of hiring decisions, the speed of the process, and the fairness of the experience. Those three things are often in tension: moving faster tends to impact accuracy, and scaling up might lead to less consistency.

VAC 2.0 is built to help your team achieve all three. It frees up your team's time by simplifying coordination without reducing rigour. The assessor experience supports more consistent evaluation across sessions. And because VAC 2.0 runs alongside your asynchronous assessments and video interviews in the same platform, the quality of the experience doesn't drop when you move to live.

If you have live assessments coming up, speak to your Customer Success Manager about switching to Modern Projects.