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What do your candidates think of your hiring process? Find out with #TheCandEs Benchmark Research Program! We help you and your organization measure and understand your overall #CandidateExperience ratings from pre-application to onboarding, where you stack up, and so much more. Feel that you have a great experience already? Participate and get recognized for your above average candidate experience, all according to the feedback data you collect, and how you stack up. Feel you have work to do with your hiring process? Participate and get actionable insights on areas you can improve, and data to back it up. Check out our exciting new program for 2024! Get started today: https://bit.ly/3SlIk3p

It is crucial to get your CFO (and your hiring managers!) to understand why improving the candidate (and employee) experience and its business impact is crucial. See why improving #CandidateExperience is vital for attracting top talent, boosting brand reputation, and enhancing your company's financial performance: https://bit.ly/3yLDVzT #TheCandEs #Recruiting #EREConference

Now that was fun. Time to do it all over again for 2025. #TheCandEs?ERE The CandEs (Thank you for the picture Christy!)

When the following are invested in from pre-application to onboarding (both for external and internal candidate experience), then each year our benchmark research underscores those employers with above average candidate experience ratings: -Consistent and timely communications from pre-application to onboarding -Consistent and timely expectation setting about the entire recruiting process -Consistent and timely engagement and follow-through throughout the candidate journey -Asking candidates for timely feedback and providing timely feedback to finalists -Being transparent and more accountable about your entire recruiting and hiring process From Referrals to Revenue: A Higher Rate of Return for Improving #CandidateExperience - See #TheCandEs award winners are raising the bar and seeing returns:

What a week in Anaheim for the ERE Recruiting Conference it was! #TheCandEs Benchmark Research team again congratulates the 62 global 2024 #CandidateExperience Award Winners that were celebrated last week — those that had above average candidate experience ratings. We were excited to give out our 5 new Most Innovative Candidate Experience Improvement Awards! Here is why these select CandE Award winners stood out & won: D2L Pay Transparency Pre-boarding / Onboarding Northwell Health Career Coaching Community Intervention Room & Board Open Req Threshold Actionable Insights Schneider Electric Internal Candidate Experience Smile Brands Inc. Recruiting Technology Implementation and Optimization Much more to come in our 2024 Candidate Experience reports later this year about these companies, and the many others that provided case studies on their best practices, challenges and more. And again, a special shout out to the two employers that won CandEs in all 4 regions this year (North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America): Avanade & Schneider Electric Now it’s time to finish the 2024 CandE Benchmark Research reports and start all over again in 2025. You can learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g6D27Mih #recruiting #hiring #CandidateExperience #TheCandEs

From Day 1 at the ERE Recruiting Conference in Anaheim!

Excited for the CandE Awards tonight — including 5 new Most Innovative Candidate Experience Improvement Awards to be given away! ERE The CandEs #recruiting #hiring #candidateexperience

On behalf of ERE and The CandEs, the CandE Benchmark Research team again congratulates the 62 global 2024 Candidate Experience Award Winners — those that had above average candidate experience ratings — and our 5 new Most Innovative Candidate Experience Improvement Awards: D2L Pay Transparency Pre-boarding / Onboarding Northwell Health Career Coaching Community Intervention Room & Board Open Req Threshold Actionable Insights Schneider Electric Internal Candidate Experience Smile Brands Inc. Recruiting Technology Implementation and Optimization And a special shout out to the two employers that won CandEs in all 4 regions this year (North America, EMEA, APAC, and Latin America): Avanade & Schneider Electric Now it’s time to finish the 2024 CandE Benchmark Research reports and start all over again in 2025. You can learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g6D27Mih #recruiting #hiring #CandidateExperience #TheCandEs Evan Birtch? Krista Ostertag Lynda Whittemore LaDonna Tucker Christy Spilka, CSSGB Corrine Long Ron Machamer

“Because more candidates are then being dispositioned at the point of application without as much as a general rejection email, candidate frustration and resentment continue to run higher than ever. Also, it’s taking longer for too many candidates to find jobs across job types compared to last year, even with low unemployment...” October CandE Pulse: It Looks Better Than It Feels, Maybe? Get #TheCandEs latest state of #CandidateExperience here:

“So, overall, does it look better than it feels? Feel better than it looks? Mercy, we’ve seen so many constant multi-dimensional quantum-level changes for the past four years that we sometimes don’t know if we’re coming or going. I know anecdotally that most employers we work with are neutral to conservatively positive about what’s coming. We hope that means at least a little bit of a recruiting industry resurgence in 2025. Remember, it’s not all purgatory; many companies thrive and deliver quality candidate experiences.” October CandE Pulse: It Looks Better Than It Feels, Maybe? Find out here: