Survale, the leading provider of talent feedback and experience management solutions, in partnership with the CandE Benchmark Research and Award Program, is pleased to announce an intensive, hands-on workshop: “Recruiting, Hiring and the Candidate Journey: Unlock Hiring Secrets in Philadelphia!” Presented by the Survale CandE Benchmark Research and Award Program and sponsored by Match2, this exclusive session is designed for HR directors, talent acquisition leaders, employer branding professionals and recruiters who are looking to move beyond simple metrics and drive real operational change in their hiring processes.

In today’s dynamic job market, Survale’s data indicates that candidate experience is no longer just a buzzword; it is a critical factor for attracting and retaining top-tier talent. Companies that prioritize a transparent and engaging journey consistently outperform their rivals by building stronger employer brands and reducing candidate resentment.

"We are thrilled to bring this level of actionable intelligence to the Philadelphia region,” said Kevin Grossman, VP of CandE Benchmark Research at Survale. “This workshop isn’t just a passive seminar. It’s fun, interactive, and a deep dive into the latest benchmark research and real-world case studies that help organizations identify friction points and master the power of feedback to improve their ROI."

Workshop Highlights Include:

• Data-Driven Best Practices: Insights from the latest CandE Benchmark Research on what constitutes an exceptional candidate experience.

• Gap Identification: Interactive exercises to pinpoint friction within participants’ current hiring funnels.

• Feedback Mastery: Strategies for collecting and acting upon real-time candidate sentiment using the Survale platform.

• Strategic Networking: Opportunities to connect with fellow Philadelphia-area TA professionals to share challenges and exchange ideas.

The workshop takes place the day before Survale is set to sponsor Phenom’s IAMPHENOM Conference. This makes it easy for conference attendees to participate in the workshop as well.

In a commitment to the local community, proceeds from the workshop will benefit the Philadelphia chapter of Cradles to Crayons, a charity focused on providing essential items to children in need.

Event Details:

• Date: March 9, 2026

• Time: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

• Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

• Registration: Spaces are strictly limited to ensure an intimate learning environment. Interested professionals can secure their spot here.

About Survale

Survale’s award-winning Talent Feedback Platform provides employers with an “Always On” solution for gathering and analyzing experiential data from candidates, recruiters, and employees. By tying feedback to key interactions throughout the talent lifecycle, Survale helps leadership optimize people, processes, and technologies to deliver world-class talent experiences. For more information, visit survale.com.

About the CandE Awards

The Candidate Experience (CandE) Benchmark Research and Award Program is the industry’s longest-running research initiative dedicated to the elevation of the candidate experience. Each year, it recognizes organizations that meet the highest standards of excellence in recruiting and hiring.

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Survale, the leading provider of talent feedback and experience management solutions, today announced the launch of the 2026 EmployE Employee Experience Benchmark Research and Award Program. Building on the 15-year success of the Candidate Experience (CandE) Benchmark Research and Award Program, the new "EmployEs" offer organizations a confidential, comparative, and data-driven approach to measuring and optimizing their employee experience.

Unlike other programs designed to provide a badge and tout the employer’s workplace, the EmployE program is designed to provide employers with a comprehensive look at what their workforce is really thinking. By utilizing Survale’s time-tested methodology, participating organizations can benchmark their internal engagement, retention, and satisfaction data against a global standard of peers, moving beyond simple surveys to actionable intelligence.

"The launch of the EmployE Benchmark Research and Award Program represents a natural evolution for Survale and the industry at large," said Jason Moreau, CEO of Survale. "For years, the CandEs have set the standard for candidate experience. Now, we are applying that same rigor to the employee journey. The EmployEs give HR leaders the validated data they need to build world-class workplaces, improve retention, and strengthen their employer brand from the inside out."

Key Features of the 2026 EmployE Program:

• Comprehensive Benchmarking at an Accessible Price: Organizations survey their employees using Survale’s proven guidelines to gather confidential feedback across the entire employee lifecycle—from new hires to long-term team members.

• Actionable Insights: Participants receive a detailed report and a one-on-one consultation with employee experience experts to pinpoint strengths and identify opportunities for growth.

• Brand Amplification: The program features Survale’s exclusive Promote capability, which identifies highly satisfied employees and automatically guides them to leave positive reviews on sites like Glassdoor and Indeed, directly boosting the employer brand.

• Deep Dive Data: The research goes beyond surface-level metrics to measure attitudes on Growth and Development, Engagement, Internal Mobility, and Manager Experience. All linking employee experience metrics to key trends and business outcomes

Understanding the employee experience is no longer optional; it is a critical business imperative," said Kevin Grossman, VP of Research at Survale. "The EmployEs provide a unique opportunity for companies to see the impact of their employee experience on their business, as well as exactly how they stack up against the competition and to celebrate their successes. We are thrilled to bring this level of insight and recognition to the employee experience landscape.

Registration for the 2026 EmployE Employee Experience Benchmark Research and Award Program is now open. Organizations interested in participating can learn more and request information here.

About Survale

Survale’s award-winning Talent Feedback Platform provides employers with an "Always On" solution for automatically gathering, analyzing, and acting upon experiential data from candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and employees at each stage of the hiring process and throughout the talent lifecycle. Survale ties feedback to key interactions and operational data, prescriptively pinpointing potential problem areas and tracking trends in KPIs. This provides leadership with unprecedented insights into their operations, allowing them to optimize people, processes, and technologies to deliver world-class talent experiences. For more information, visit survale.com.

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Survale, the leading provider of talent feedback and experience management solutions, today announced that registration is now open for the 2026 Candidate Experience (CandE) Benchmark Research and Award Program. As the industry’s longest-running and most rigorous benchmark research program, the CandEs enter their 15th year of providing organizations with critical data to measure, understand, and optimize their recruiting processes and improve their candidate experience.

The 2026 CandE Program offers employers a unique opportunity to benchmark their candidate experience against a global standard of peers. Using a time-tested methodology, the program captures confidential feedback from job seekers at all stages of the hiring funnel—from pre-application to onboarding—to reveal the true impact of recruiting efforts on employer brand and business outcomes.

"We are proud to kick off the 15th year of the CandEs, a program that has defined the standard for candidate experience excellence," said Jason Moreau, CEO of Survale. "By combining this prestigious research with Survale's powerful analytics technology, we are giving talent leaders the actionable intelligence they need to not just measure sentiment, but to drive real operational change. There is no better way for an organization to validate their recruiting strategy."

Benefits of Participation

Participants in the 2026 CandE Program receive access to a "lite" version of Survale’s analytics platform, enabling them to:

• Benchmark Globally: Compare anonymous candidate feedback against aggregate data from hundreds of other participating organizations.

• Uncover Perception Gaps: Identify discrepancies between how the recruiting team views the process and how candidates actually experience it.

• Gain Expert Insight: Receive a one-on-one consultation with candidate experience experts to review results and discuss improvement strategies.

• Earn Recognition: Qualifying organizations with the highest candidate satisfaction ratings will be recognized as 2026 CandE Award Winners, a mark of excellence in the talent acquisition industry.

Candidate expectations continue to evolve, and in any competitive hiring market, understanding those expectations is paramount," said Kevin Grossman, VP of CandE Benchmark Research at Survale. "The CandE Program goes beyond simple metrics; it provides a deep dive into candidate resentment, fairness, and the business impact of the hiring experience. We invite organizations of all sizes to join us in 2026 to measure what matters and celebrate their success.

How to Register

Registration for the 2026 Candidate Experience Benchmark Research and Award Program is now open. To learn more about the methodology, benefits, and timeline, or to register your organization, please visit: https://survale.com/candes/

Candidate Experience Day Webinar

In honor of National Candidate Experience Day, Survale will host a webinar presenting the findings from the 2025 CandE Research Program. Join Benchmark Research VP Kevin Grossman on January 21 at 11 AM PT for "#CandExperienceDay2026: What’s in Store for Candidate Experience in 2026." Register here.

About Survale

Survale’s award-winning Talent Feedback Platform provides employers with an "Always On" solution for automatically gathering, analyzing, and acting upon experiential data from candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and employees at each stage of the hiring process and throughout the talent lifecycle. Survale ties feedback to key interactions and operational data, prescriptively pinpointing potential problem areas and tracking trends in KPIs. This provides leadership with unprecedented insights into their operations, allowing them to optimize people, processes, and technologies to deliver world-class talent experiences. For more information, visit survale.com.

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Survale, the leading provider of candidate and employee experience management solutions, and the 14th annual CandE Benchmark Research and Awards Program, now part of Survale, today revealed the 66 companies from around the world to be recognized for candidate experience excellence as winners of 2025 Global Candidate Experience Awards.

This year 110 companies hiring around the world registered to participate in the 2025 Global CandE Awards Benchmark Research and Awards Program, which ultimately collected the thoughts and experiences of over 66,000 job candidates. The largest study of its kind, the CandE Benchmark Research Program has evaluated responses from over 2,000 global employers and nearly 1.9 million job seekers since 2011.

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 minimum, where the proportion of respondents who were not hired met or exceeded a set standard.

The final analysis included four key rating questions that had a significant impact on determining the winners:

1. The candidates' overall ranking of their candidate experience
2. Whether or not they would reapply to the organization in the future
3. Whether or not they would refer other job seekers to the organization in the future
4. And 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 66 organizations big and small across multiple industries will receive 76 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 its mission of helping companies focus on Candidate Experience and the business value it brings to an organization.

The (58) 2025 North American CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):

• Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
• Alliance Technical Group
• Assurant
• Atlantic Health System
• BASF
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
• Bright Horizons
• Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
• Clean Harbors
• Compassion International
• Crum & Forster
• CSAA Insurance Group
• CVS Health
• D2L
• Delaware North
• Doane Grant Thornton LLP
• Dr.Reddy's Laboratories Inc
• EchoStar
• Edward Jones
• Enterprise Mobility
• Entrada Therapeutics
• Erie Architectural Products
• Family Care Center LLC
• Ford Motor Company
• Freese and Nichols
• GALLO
• GuideWell
• Hoag Health System
• Humana, Inc.
• Ingevity
• Keurig Dr Pepper
• KeyBank
• Lyric
• MetLife
• Netsmart Technologies, Inc
• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
• Northwell Health
• Norton Healthcare
• Perkins & Co.
• Progress Residential
• Progressive Insurance
• Prudential Financial
• Room & Board
• Schneider Electric
• Sorenson Communications
• Syndax Pharmaceuticals
• Texas Oncology
• The Friedkin Group
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Tulane University
• Two Six Technologies
• U.S. Bank
• U.S. Pharmacopeia
• United Health Services Hospitals, Inc.
• UST
• UTHealth Houston
• WM
• YKK AP America Inc.

The (9) 2025 EMEA CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):

• Compassion International
• Delaware North
• Enterprise Mobility
• Schneider Electric
• Societe Generale
• Syneos Health
• Telent Technology Services Ltd
• Tokio Marine HCC
• UST

The (6) 2025 APAC CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):

• Diligent
• EchoStar
• IDP Education Ltd
• Persistent Systems
• Schneider Electric
• UST

The (3) 2025 Latin America CandE Award Winners are (in alphabetical order below):

• Diligent
• Parex Resources Colombia AG Sucursal
• Schneider Electric

"When the economy is uncertain, candidates remember how you made them feel. Improving the experience isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s a long-term investment in relationships and the ultimate impact on businesses,” said Kevin Grossman, VP of Benchmark Research at Survale. “Transparency, along with consistent communication and feedback loops at every stage of the recruitment process, are always critical differentiators in our research and can equate to positive business outcomes and employment brands. Congratulations to the 2025 CandE Winners for improving their candidate experience.”

You can find the complete listing of 2025 CandE Winners listed by final ranking on the Survale CandE Winner page.

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 Most Innovative Candidate Experience Improvement Awards to be given away at this year’s virtual CandE Awards ceremony, October 30, 2025. The ceremony registration is open for all recruiting leaders and their teams to learn more about our program.

About Survale

Survale’s award winning Talent Feedback Platform provides employers with an “Always-On,” real-time solution for automatically gathering, analyzing, and acting upon satisfaction and engagement data from candidates and employees—from recruitment to retirement. With integrations into leading collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, Survale empowers organizations to optimize their people, processes, and technologies with actionable insights. More information can be found at https://survale.com/.

About The CandE Benchmark Research Program

The Candidate Experience (CandE) Benchmark Research and Awards Program is the first program of its kind focused on the elevation and promotion of a quality candidate experience. Also known as The CandEs, the program was founded by Talent Board in 2011 and is now part of Survale. The CandE Benchmark Research Program delivers annual recruiting and hiring industry benchmark research that highlights accountability, fairness and the business impact of candidate experience. More information can be found at https://survale.com/candes/.

CandE Media Contact:

Kevin Grossman
VP of Benchmark Research
Email Contact
831-419-6810

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Survale, a leader in talent experience feedback technology, will be showcasing its latest announcements and features at the HR Technology show in Las Vegas on September 16. Attendees can visit the Survale booth, #3420, to learn more about Survale’s latest announcements:

Survale Professional Edition

Survale is introducing its new Professional Edition, a streamlined toolkit designed to help organizations of all sizes get started with talent feedback. This version offers an easy way to collect and analyze feedback from candidates and employees, with customizable surveys and dashboards to help optimize hiring, onboarding, and the overall employee experience. It’s a powerful yet accessible solution for businesses looking to gain a competitive edge by improving their talent-facing processes.

2025 CandE Benchmark Research Project

Survale will be discussing its ongoing role as the new home of the CandE Candidate Experience Benchmark Research and Award Program. Survale acquired the prestigious program from ERE Media and has been the technology platform powering the research since 2017. Attendees can learn more about the 2025 research and preview the invaluable insights it provides for organizations seeking to benchmark and improve their candidate experience for 2026.

New EmployE Benchmark Research and Award Program

Building on the success of the CandE Benchmark Research Program, Survale is officially launching the new EmployE Employee Experience Benchmark Research and Award Program for 2026. This new program is a direct extension of The CandE’s proven methodology, focusing on the employee experience from onboarding through the entire employee lifecycle. Organizations that participate will be able to collect and analyze feedback from their employees and benchmark their results against a global aggregate, providing critical insights to improve employee sentiment, satisfaction, engagement, and retention.

Latest SurvaleAI

Survale will be showcasing its latest AI features including advanced sentiment analysis that goes beyond simple positive or negative categorization to provide a deeper contextual analysis of freeform comments. Survale's AI-powered tools also enable "Ask Survale" functionality, allowing users to ask natural language questions of their data to quickly uncover actionable insights and identify key issues affecting talent satisfaction. Finally, Survale’s new Legal Alerts utilize AI to surface comments that may describe legally sensitive interactions or feedback.

“With these new announcements, we are extending our commitment to providing a holistic talent experience platform,” said Jason Moreau, CEO of Survale. “Our clients can now seamlessly connect the candidate and employee journeys, using data and AI-powered insights to optimize their people, processes, and technologies. From attracting top talent with a great candidate experience to retaining them with an engaging employee experience, we are giving employers the research and technology they need to build and maintain a winning workforce.”

To learn more, top by Booth #3420 or visit survale.com.

About Survale

Survale is the provider of an "Always-On" talent feedback platform that automatically gathers, analyzes, and reports on satisfaction and engagement data from candidates and employees from "hello to hire to retire." Survale's prescriptive analytics enable companies to optimize their talent-facing programs, pinpoint problems with people, processes, and technologies, and increase quality of hire, offer acceptance, and employee retention.

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Survale, the leading provider of candidate experience management solutions, today announced its acquisition of the CandE Candidate Experience Research and Awards Program from ERE Media. The deal, finalized earlier this month and announced today at the ERE Recruiting Innovation Summit, sees Survale acquire all assets of the renowned CandE program. As part of the acquisition, Kevin Grossman, VP of Research at ERE, will join Survale as Vice President of CandE Benchmark Research. Survale and Grossman will jointly service all current CandE Research and Awards Program participants for 2025 and will continue the program beyond. Survale has served as the technology platform powering the CandE program since 2017.

"We are thrilled to officially welcome the CandE program into the Survale family," said Jason Moreau, CEO of Survale. "Having been the technology backbone for the CandEs for nearly a decade, this acquisition is a natural evolution. The integration of this prestigious program will significantly enhance our already robust candidate experience benchmark data, provide us with access to a valuable network of talent acquisition leaders, and add unparalleled industry expertise to our team and for the benefit of our clients."

For participants in the CandE program, the acquisition by Survale promises a more streamlined and integrated experience. "This transition to Survale, the long-standing technology partner of the CandE program, will create a more seamless research process and the ability to better scale by unlocking exciting new features and benefits for participants in the future," stated Kevin Grossman, the newly appointed Vice President of CandE Benchmark Research at Survale. "I am eager to join the Survale team and continue to drive the CandE program forward, providing even greater value and insights to organizations committed to exceptional candidate experiences."

The acquisition strategically benefits Survale by expanding its already extensive database of candidate experience benchmark data, gaining access to the CandE program's large and established client base, and incorporating deep domain expertise into the company and for its existing clients. CandE program participants will benefit from a more tightly integrated research platform, simplifying the process and paving the way for the introduction of advanced features and enhanced program offerings.

The Impact of Candidate Experience on Recruiting Outcomes

Research from the CandE Program underscores the importance of candidate experience: organizations with high candidate satisfaction scores see up to 60% of candidates willing to apply again, 55% more likely to refer others, and 40% more likely to become brand advocates. Conversely, poor experiences lead to 66% of candidates sharing negative feedback with their networks and 34% posting publicly on platforms like Glassdoor, impacting employer brand and revenue. Survale’s real-time feedback platform, now fully integrated with CandE, enables organizations to address these challenges proactively, improving hiring outcomes and employer reputation

About Survale:

Survale’s award winning Talent Feedback Platform provides employers with an “Always-On,” real-time solution for automatically gathering, analyzing, and acting upon satisfaction and engagement data from candidates and employees—from recruitment to retirement. With integrations into leading collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack, Survale empowers organizations to optimize their people, processes, and technologies with actionable insights. More information can be found at https://survale.com/.

About ERE Media:

ERE Media was initially conceived nearly 25 years ago as a forum for talent acquisition professionals to find recruiting information and resources online from an unbiased source - their peers. Today, ERE Media has grown to become the most trusted and world renowned source of recruiting publications and conferences, offering trends, insights, research, and networking opportunities for recruitment and HR professionals. More information can be found at https://www.eremedia.com.

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