When was the last time you walked in your candidates' shoes? This blog explores the essential questions recruiters should ask themselves when looking at their candidate journey.

Discover how Employer Branding Leader Florian Schrodt brought a contextual candidate experience strategy to VBZ.

jobpal's CEO and Co-Founder Luc Dudler gave a presentation at Talent Tech Rising last year on why candidate experience matters and how chatbots can help in the process. Candidate Experience is such a buzzword nowadays, but it's not enough to only talk about it. Companies have to make an effort to match their candidate experience to the employer brand — otherwise the negative effects could actually hurt the business.

In a recent article on their very own blog, Google’s Hire team presents some greatly interesting facts about the candidate experience. Known for their accuracy and industry insight, the team collected figures, statistics and facts from various different sources, concluding that bad candidate experiences drag down your hiring performance drastically.

There is nothing potentially more harmful to your view of a company than the way you’re treated during the recruitment process, so companies it is time to sit up and pay really close attention to your candidate experience.