Employers with Best Candidate Experience Recognized

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Candidate ExperienceThe Talent Board, a non-profit organization focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience, has recently announced the winners of the 2011 CandE awards. The awards are designed to recognize employers that provide the best candidate experience throughout their entire recruitment cycle.

“We are proud to announce these worthy winners who are setting the market standard for candidate experience. Through their practices and candidate surveys, these companies demonstrated their solid commitment to candidate experience,” said China Gorman, former Chief Operating Officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and a judge for the 2011 award.

Over 11,500 candidate surveys were collected as part of the in the evaluation process to determine the winners. Out of the fifty-eight organizations that applied, the companies listed below were chosen as award recipients:

  • Adidas Group
  • Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
  • Bozzuto Group Inc.
  • Cliffs Natural Resources
  • Covenant Health
  • Crowe Horwath LLP
  • Deloitte
  • Deluxe Corporation
  • General Mills
  • Harris Interactive
  • Herman Miller Inc.
  • InfoReliance Corporation
  • Intuit Inc.
  • Ontario Systems LLC
  • PepsiCo
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Principal Financial Group
  • Rex Healthcare
  • RMS Inc.
  • Sage
  • State Farm Insurance
  • SunTrust Banks, Inc.
  • W. L. Gore & Associates
  • Whirlpool Corporation

“The core goal of the Candidate Experience Awards is to elevate the value of the candidate as a true partner in the recruiting process. We believe that organizations that embrace this paradigm flourish, in part, because their transparency in the recruiting process leads to more engaged employees and a more competitive recruiting brand,” said Gerry Crispin, Principal at CareerXroads and the Chief Architect of the 2011 survey for the Candidate Experience Awards.

Crispin continued, “The Candidate Experience Awards are dedicated to helping organizations improve by shining a light on a market standard. This is not an award to recognize a small, elite set of corporations. All the companies that meet the standard win the award. In 2011, the standard is defined by two characteristics. First, the companies that systematically gather candidate experience data in their process and second, the companies that are committed to providing status updates and feedback to candidates in process.”

By improving candidate experience, employers can improve their candidate application rates, website conversions, and job acceptance rates. In particular in times of high unemployment, candidate experience is often ignored; after all, with so many candidates, employers are tempted to feel that the numbers are on their side. However, by implementing best practices in candidate experience, companies can upgrade their talent and improve their competitiveness in the job market. Creating the best candidate experience possible should be a top of mind strategic imperative for corporate recruitment departments.

 

By Marie Larsen