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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Turn Those Dials to Highly Responsive

If you want to improve their candidate experience and reduce overall negative sentiment at the point of application, then you should turn those dials to highly responsive.

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Employers Don’t “Owe” Candidates – But They “Can” and “Should” Communicate Consistently

Employers big and small across industries don’t “owe” candidates anything, but again, they can and should communicate consistently across the candidate journey.

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A Little CandE Insight for Your Holiday Stockings

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Nope, not the holiday season – the 2025 CandE Benchmark Research Reports are on their way. The […]

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Communication and Feedback Loops Will Always Be the Greatest Recruiting Investments

A year ago most employers that participated in our CandE Benchmark Research Program told us that they were not using AI recruiting technologies to screen, […]

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