Bank Heist:
The Ultimate Recruiting Game
Because hiring the wrong person isn’t just a mistake it’s a liability.
Bank Heist
is a fast-paced, immersive training game that teaches strategic recruiting, candidate evaluation, and behavioral interviewing—disguised as the greatest fictional heist of all time.
Game Summary
Players become elite recruiters for a high-risk mission: assemble a crew of hackers, drivers, strategists, and smooth-talkers—each with the perfect blend of skills, motivation, and composure under pressure.
From building personas to reviewing resumes and surviving chaotic interviews, teams must make quick, strategic hiring decisions while dodging curveballs, distractions, and sabotage.
Training Objective
Transform traditional recruiting and interviewing workshops into a cinematic, high-pressure game that builds practical skills in candidate profiling, behavioral questioning, and decision-making under stress.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will:
- Build strategic candidate personas tailored to role needs
- Practice resume evaluation and identify red flags
- Craft and deliver behavior-based interview questions
- Adapt to real-world distractions, objections, and legal boundaries
- Improve team alignment on candidate quality and role fit
Gameplay Format & Flow
Theme: Crime caper meets talent acquisition
Setup: Teams receive missions, resumes, role cards, status cards, and curveball challenges
Team Size: 4 Teams, 6 players per team
Time: Approximately 2 hours, including debrief.
Why This Game Works
Ideal Audience
- Replaces passive interview training with active, cinematic immersion
- Builds confidence in high-pressure candidate conversations
- Encourages collaboration between recruiters and hiring managers
- Teaches skills through laughter, logic, and strategic storytelling
- Designed to be unforgettable and applicable the next day
- Talent acquisition teams
- HR business partners and recruiters
- Hiring managers and interview panels
- Cross-functional project leads building new teams
On-site Game Facilitating
We run the game, bring the props, and take your team on the recruiting mission of a lifetime.
Purchase & Facilitate
Want to DIY? We’ll ship the full kit with cards, resumes, instructions, and facilitator guide straight to your HQ.
What’s the ROI Bank Heist?
Bad hires cost U.S. companies an average of $17,000 per person in turnover, lost productivity, and culture damage.
Real ROI Example:
- One team avoids a single poor hire
- Estimated cost avoided: $17,000
Net ROI: $13,000 saved from a single session
For every $1 spent on this training, companies save over $4 by improving talent decisions and reducing hiring risk.
The only thing riskier than a heist… is a bad hire.
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