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Research-backed articles and analysis on candidate experience benchmarking and best practices from the CandE program.

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The Monopsony Illusion: Creating and Being the Better Choices 

In a monopsony, the dominant employer's greatest weapon is the illusion that you have no other choices – "In space no one can hear you scream”. For candidates, the goal is to create choices. For smaller employers, the goal is to be the better choice.

6 min read
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CandE Case Study Takeaways for Recruiting and Hiring Today

These are key takeaways from 16 case studies from CandE-winning employers across multiple industries including healthcare, finance & insurance, manufacturing, technology, energy & utilities, nonprofit, and others. 

3 min read
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Humans, AI Screening, and the Final Hiring Decisions 

Are humans making the final hiring decisions? This last question isn’t rhetorical; it’s literally at the existential core of what’s fundamentally changing about recruiting and hiring. For humans – HR, recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates – that’s not a good thing.

3 min read
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The Age of Dehumanizing AI Escalation

What happens when all the professional candidates are super-qualified? Employers have to default to old-fashioned human sourcing, screening, and interviewing, which may not be a bad thing overall in the age of dehumanizing AI escalation. 

3 min read
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The Positive Ripple Effects of Mandatory Interview Training

These poor interview-experience ripple effects that happen within hiring teams and companies lose strong candidates again and again – and potential referrals – even from those who don’t get the final offers. Mandatory interview training leads to fair and positive ripple effects on your recruiting and hiring, and ultimately your business.

5 min read
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EmployE Quiz Time: How Does Your Employee Experience Stack Up?

Take our brief quiz and see for yourself — 10 yes-or-no questions based on our CandE Methodology and our new EmployE Benchmark Research Program. Take it and we’ll let you know how you score and what it means.

2 min read
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Ask for help but avoid recruiting scams

If there’s one piece of career advice that I’ve heard again and again from TA leaders around the world – network, network, network. Get introduced and make connections with the individuals working at the companies you’re interested in. That’s harder when you’re just starting out, but you need to start nonetheless. Ask for help but avoid the recruiting scams.

4 min read
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CandE Quiz Time: How does your candidate experience stack up?

Take our brief quiz and see for yourself — 10 yes-or-no questions based on 15 years of our CandE Benchmark Research. Take it and we’ll let you know how you score and what it means.

2 min read
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Whatever Gets Them There

But the preference of AI or human when they are being considered in the final interview-to-offer stages across job types, in any market, especially this one today, is whatever gets them there.

3 min read
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Hiring Managers should build the sturdy bridges from candidate to employee experience

The more nurturing and engagement that occurs prior to their start date, the greater opportunity to improve new hire retention from the beginning, at least in the short run, and to build the sturdy bridges from candidate to employee experience.

3 min read
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Leave the benchmarking to us

If you want to compare your recruiting and hiring experiences against companies big and small across industries, leave the benchmarking to us. No need for survey fatigue.

3 min read
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Candidate and Employee Experience Benchmarking Should Be Critical Business Priorities

That’s where benchmarking pays off – for both candidate experience and employee experience – understanding how you stack up against other employers big and small across industries. That’s why candidate and employee experience benchmarking should be critical business priorities.

5 min read