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Case study · Teams

Filling roles from their own bench.

Strong employees kept freezing in internal interview panels — so great candidates lost out to external hires. The L&D team gave staff Miclea to practice, and internal promotions took off.

2.5×
internal-interview pass rate
40%
of open roles filled internally
1,200
employees enrolled in year one

The challenge

Great on the job, frozen in the panel.

Employees who excelled day to day struggled when they sat across from an internal hiring panel — they couldn't translate their work into crisp interview answers. Promising internal candidates kept losing roles to outside hires, which was slower, costlier, and bad for morale.

Managers wanted to grow people internally but had no scalable way to prepare them for the interview itself.

How Miclea helped

Interview practice as a benefit.

The company offered Miclea to every employee considering an internal move. Staff rehearsed for the specific role they were targeting and walked into panels confident and concise.

  • Role-specific prep tied to the company's own competency framework and leveling.
  • Private practice employees could do on their own time, with no manager watching.
  • Program-level insights showed L&D where readiness gaps clustered across teams.

The outcome

More mobility, less external spend.

Internal candidates passed panels at more than twice the previous rate, and 40% of open roles were filled from within. Time-to-fill dropped and employees saw a real path forward — without leaving the company to find it.

By the numbers

2.5×
internal-interview pass rate
40%
of open roles filled from within
31%
faster time-to-fill on internal moves
"Our people were always good enough for the role — they just couldn't show it in the panel. Miclea closed that gap, and now we promote from within by default."
Aisha Rahman
Aisha Rahman
Head of Learning & Development · Lumen Corp

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