Graduate Cohort · Durable Skills Screener · bp sits on the Project Metis steering committee

The Decision Desk.

Hiring for judgment under pressure.

Some days a desk loses $5 million. The best analysts are back at 6:00 a.m., trading well. That's composure under loss, and it never shows up on a résumé. A short spoken screener hears it in a candidate's own words before the first interview, then shows the hiring team which desk each person would make stronger.

Candidates screened for graduate trading and operations roles

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Hired after interviews and assessment day

Durable skills read from every candidate's spoken answers

Spoken prompts, about 12 minutes, voice only

Desk P&L · One Trading Day · Scenario$0

Next morning, 6:00

Drag through the day. The screener listens for what a candidate does at the bottom of the curve.

The Framework

Six Durable Skills A Trading Floor Runs On

Written in the language of a desk, not a classroom. Each one is built from IMPACTER's eight validated competencies, so the same machine learning engine that reads student voice reads these answers. Nothing is self-reported. Every level points back to something the candidate said.

Filled circles show which of IMPACTER's eight underlying competencies each skill is built from.

Where It Sits

The Screener Runs Before The First Interview

Hard-to-measure skills usually surface in the final round, if at all. Here they arrive first, so interviewers spend their hour testing what the screener found instead of hunting for it.

The Candidate

Answers five spoken prompts on a phone, on their own time. Real situations: a loss, a misread, a hedge, a team, a reason.

The Hiring Team

Gets a profile on six durable skills, each level backed by the candidate's own words, and a best-fit desk.

The Interviewer

Opens with follow-up questions written for that candidate, aimed at the one skill the screener couldn't settle.

Desk Builder

Same Skills Or Complementary Skills?

A systematic desk wants ice-cold discipline. A regional gas desk wants people who can feel the market. A structured LNG desk wants people who can hold a 15-year conviction and its hedge at the same time. Pick a desk, then build it from the cohort.

The Cohort · 48 Candidates

Hired Interviewed Screened only On your desk

Tap a candidate to add or remove them. Up to five seats.

Your Desk

Fit to this desk's profile

Skills with an Advanced seat

How different the seats are

Cohort Patterns

Spiky Profiles, Not Ranked Lists

Each dot is one candidate. Most people are strong in two or three skills, not all six, which is why one composite score would hide the hire you actually need.

The Roster

Every Candidate, Every Skill

Sort by any skill. Candidate 0417 has a full sample report: the five answers, the evidence behind each level, and the questions an interviewer would ask next.

Open Candidate 0417's Report

Graduate Trader, Gas & Power. Exemplary market read, a composure story worth one more question, and a clear best-fit desk.

See The Report