CollegeRecruiter.com Continues Its Active Support of the CandE’s Effort to Improve the Candidate Experience

Talent Board, a non-profit organization focused on the promotion and elevation of the candidate experience, today announced details of the Candidate Experience Council, comprised of some of the leading voices in HR and talent acquisition.

As the organization behind the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), the Talent Board’s goal is to facilitate the evolution of the employment candidate experience. In just two years, the CandEs have grown considerably (rising from 57 participating organizations and seven sponsors in 2011 to 90 companies and 18 sponsors in 2012 in North America, and expanding the program to the U.K.) as more organizations recognize the bottom line and branding benefits of keeping job seekers engaged and informed about their candidate status.

The Council was created to help steer the future of the CandEs awards and benchmarking program by drawing on the expertise and knowledge of the HR community’s thought leaders. The Council ensures the Talent Board has access to the latest information and a wide variety of ideas that can enhance the program and ensure its continued success as it enters its third year. Through various committees, the members of the Council will be involved in numerous support initiatives by creating deeper awareness of the program, conducting sponsorship outreach, conducting employer and candidate surveys and sharing ideas to various reports and presentations based on the CandEs.

The Candidate Experience Council currently consists of 24 recruiting industry experts, including: Continue Reading

CollegeRecruiter.com President Selected as Judge of Candidate Experience Awards

Organizations Assembles Panel of HR and Talent Acquisition Thought Leaders to Select Companies that Best Exemplify a Positive Candidate Experience 

SAN FRANCISCO – September 19, 2012 – The Talent Board, a non-profit organization focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience, today announced the members of its panel of independent judges who will select the winners of the Second Annual North American Candidate Experience Awards.(known as “The CandEs”). The judges include: Joseph P. Murphy, vice president of Shaker Consulting Group; Steve Rothberg, president and founder of CollegeRecruiter.com; Jeremy Tipper, founder of the Talent Collective, a U.K.-based talent acquisition advisory firm; and John Vlastelica, managing director of Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.

Founded by the industry’s leading authorities on candidate experience, the CandEs are designed to recognize organizations that produce outstanding candidate experiences. The program consists of three survey rounds that capture and evaluate employers’ recruitment processes and practices through the entire recruitment cycle and candidate experience. With the first and second employer and candidate survey rounds now closed for North American employers, companies identified with unique and innovative efforts will be advanced to the final round, where they will be interviewed by the CandE judging panel using HireVue’s digital interviewing solutions to determine areas of distinction. Continue Reading

Candidate Experience Awards – Virtual Job Tryout Client Among Winners

2011 Candidate Experience Award Stamp

Some organizations take their candidate experience seriously.  This year, after considerable thought, some survey data and insightful collaborative writing, The Candidate Experience Awards were conceived.

Gerry Crispin and a team nurtured the idea and a process for application and evaluation was born.  The industry is fortunate to have forward thinking individuals willing to get out in front and take some pull-forward actions. Continue Reading

The 2012 CandEs: Launching this year’s Candidate Experience Awards

By Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads

Last year, 24 firms were acknowledged for their efforts to improve the treatment of their candidates at the HR Technology Conference (where the U.S. awards will be presented again this year). Kudos to these winning firms: Adidas Group, Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, The Bozzuto Group, Cliffs Natural Resources, Covenant Health, Crowe Horwath LLP, Deloitte, Deluxe Corporation, General Mills, Harris Interactive, Herman Miller, IncInfoReliance Corporation, Intuit Inc., Ontario Systems, LLC, PepsiCo, Principal Financial Group, Rex Healthcare, RMS Inc., Sage, State Farm, Insurance, SunTrust Banks, Inc., W. L. Gore & Associates, Whirlpool Corporation.

Subsequently we have seen dozens of articles about the awards and the winners in major publications including the Wall Street Journal and WSJ blogs (see this recent post, the High Cost of Treating Job Seekers like Cattle mentioning the 2012 award launch). Continue Reading

17 Tips to Treat Candidates With Respect

By Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler

1. acknowledging receipt of an application
2. avoiding postings that say little or insult the intelligence
3. eliminating out of date postings
4. monitoring an application against open opportunities
5. staying in touch with relevant information

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