It’s been a tough candidate market for job seekers, especially for professional hires. Candidate frustration and resentment is the highest we’ve ever seen in our annual ERE CandE Benchmark Research, and it also continues to be a challenging year for recruiting and hiring professionals worldwide due to leaner teams, fewer open jobs, and an increase in applications.
However, many talent acquisition leaders and their teams in our CandE community and beyond have remained resilient and have worked hard to improve recruiting, hiring, and the candidate experience in a difficult market. On behalf of ERE Media and the CandE Benchmark Research Program, we’re grateful for all the companies that participated in our research program this year.
We’re also very excited to reveal the 62 companies worldwide recognized for candidate experience excellence as winners of our 2024 Global Candidate Experience Awards!
This year, 125 companies hiring worldwide registered to participate in the 2024 Global ERE CandE Awards Benchmark Research Program, which ultimately collected the thoughts and experiences of over 230,000 job candidates. The largest study of its kind, we’ve evaluated responses from over 2,000 global employers and over 1.8 million job seekers since 2011.
CandE Winners were identified through a comprehensive data analysis based on their job candidates’ satisfaction survey scores. To qualify, each company committed to a statistically significant candidate response rate, where the proportion of respondents who were not hired met or exceeded a set standard. The final analysis included four key questions that had a significant impact on determining the winners:
- The candidates’ overall ranking of their candidate experience
- Whether or not they would reapply to the organization in the future
- Whether or not they would refer other job seekers to the organization in the future
- How the candidates would change their business relationship status with the organization going forward based on their experience
The above analysis resulted in a final CandE Score for each participating organization. This year 62 organizations big and small across multiple industries will receive 74 CandE Awards due to having the highest positive candidate experience ratings in North America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); Asia-Pacific (APAC); and Latin America. The CandEs continue to see an increased focus on candidate experience and its value to an organization.
The (52) 2024 North American CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):
- Alliance Technical Group
- Arup
- Atlantic Health System
- Atmos Energy
- Auburn-Washburn USD 437
- Avanade
- Baylor Scott & White Health
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
- Bright Horizons
- Clean Harbors
- Conagra Brands
- Crum & Forster
- CSAA Insurance Group
- D2L
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics
- Delaware North
- Deluxe
- Dr.Reddy’s Laboratories Inc
- Enterprise Mobility
- Entrada Therapeutics
- Family Care Center
- Fannie Mae
- Ford Motor Company
- GALLO
- Grant Thornton LLP (Canada)
- GuideWell
- Hoag Health System
- Holland America Princess
- Ingevity
- Inspire Brands
- Keurig Dr Pepper
- KeyBank
- Messer North America, Inc.
- Mettler Toledo
- Netsmart
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- Northwell Health
- Norton Healthcare
- Progress Residential
- Room & Board
- Schneider Electric
- Smile Brands
- Sorenson Communications
- Sunrun
- Syndax Pharmaceuticals
- The Friedkin Group
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- U.S. Pharmacopeia
- Virtusa
- West Monroe
- WM
- YKK AP America Inc.
The (10) 2024 EMEA CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):
- Avanade
- Delaware North
- Enterprise Mobility
- Flex
- Mettler Toledo
- Schneider Electric
- Société Générale
- Syneos Health
- UST
- Virtusa
The (8) 2024 APAC CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):
- Avanade
- Flex
- IDP Education Ltd
- Intel
- Persistent Systems Ltd.
- Schneider Electric
- TTEC
- Virtusa
The (4) 2024 Latin America CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):
- Avanade
- Messer Brazil
- Messer Colombia & Chile
- Schneider Electric
The ERE Media CandE Winner page has a complete listing of 2024 CandE Winners and all past year winners, alphabetically and by final ranking.
CandE-winning companies are also asked about their unique approach to improving the candidate experience through case study questions that will be used for our research reports, as well as to be considered for the new Most Innovative Candidate Experience Improvement Awards to be given away at this year’s ERE Recruiting Conference and CandE Awards Celebration, November 12-14, 2024. Conference registration is open for all recruiting leaders and their teams.
Join us in Anaheim to celebrate!