Candidate experience is the journey a candidate takes during the recruitment process, from engaging with the job ad to accepting an employment offer. Improving and ensuring a positive candidate experience improves the quality of hires and enhances the employer's brand. Long-term quality hires and a memorable candidate experience can lead to recommendations and referrals from candidates/new hires.
7 Ways You Can Improve Your Candidate Experience
LinkedIn | May 2024
Improving Candidate Experience Is Top Recruiting Goal for 2019
SHRM | Apr 2019
Why The Candidate Experience Matters To An Organization (And How To Improve Yours)
Forbes | Apr 2019
How Chatbots Improved Yodel's Candidate Experience
Personnel Today | Apr 2019
Four Ways to Improve the Candidate Experience
SHRM | Apr 2018
Candidate Experience: It Includes Job Interviews
HR Bartender | May 2018
What's Your Game Plan?
Candidate Experience: The Importance of Developing a Strategy
HR Bartender | Oct 2018
Getting Feedback
Feedback to and from Candidates Will Improve Your Hiring Process
SHRM | Jan 2018
Candidate Experience Audits Are Core to Recruiting
SHRM | May2017
Multimedia
E-book: The Candidate Experience Playbook
ICIMS | 2017
Video: What We Can Learn about Candidate Experience from Amazon, Delta, and Apple
Bython Media | Apr 2018
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