Asia Recruitment Awards: What makes a great candidate experience

Recruitment professionals who think outside the box to create a remarkable candidate experience will have their moment at the Asia Recruitment Awards, Asia’s only regional awards show dedicated to recognising and celebrating the best in recruitment & talent acquisition. The candidate experience category will show how HR groups and talent acquisition specialists achieve results by implementing unique employment processes.

The Asia Recruitment Awards is happening in Kuala Lumpur on 31 March; Singapore on 7 April; and Hong Kong on 11 April.

According to Aditi Sharma Kalra, regional editor of Human Resources magazine, the category for candidate experience is dedicated to in-house HR teams and recruitment firms which improve hiring results through responsible brand awareness, smooth transition and transparent communication.

She commented: “The Asia Recruitment Awards will bring to light the best practices in attracting top talent and keeping the applicant experience positive.”

Last year's Asia Recruitment Awards 2016 in Singapore awarded the Best Candidate Experience gold prize to research company Kadence International, while silver went to Tata Consultancy, and Maybank won bronze.

ANZ Bank was the gold recipient of the Best On-Boarding Experience award while specialty chemicals firm Clariant and TWG Tea shared the silver award. Kadence International and tobacco giant PMFTC both won the bronze award.

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - SINGAPORE: BEST CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	Kadence	Kadence
Silver	Novartis	Tata Consultancy
Bronze	Maybank	Maybank

 

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - SINGAPORE: BEST ON-BOARDING EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	Infocomm Development Authority	ANZ Bank
Silver	Kadence, Accenture	Clariant, TWG Tea
Bronze	Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School	Kadence, PMFTC

Insurance company Great Eastern Life grabbed the top prize for Best Candidate Experience at the Asia Recruitment Awards 2016 in Malaysia. Maybank took home the silver prize and British American Tobacco received the bronze award. For the Best On-Boarding Experience award, Great Eastern Life placed first again, followed by Media Prima for the silver prize and pharmaceutical firm Merck Sharp & Dohme for the bronze prize.

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - MALAYSIA: BEST CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	British American Tobacco	Great Eastern Life
Silver	Maybank	Maybank
Bronze		British American Tobacco

 

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - MALAYSIA: BEST ON-BOARDING EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	Accenture	Great Eastern Life
Silver	Premiere Conferencing	Media Prima
Bronze	Mindvalley Labs	Merck Sharp & Dohme

In Asia Recruitment Awards 2016 in Hong Kong, DBS Bank was the gold recipient of the Best Candidate Experience. Maybank and McDonald's Restaurants were both runner-up, taking home the silver and bronze prizes respectively. The Best On-Boarding Experience gold prize was given to McDonald's Restaurants. Global supply chain firm Li & Fung and ANZ Bank shared the silver prize, while NWS Holdings took home the bronze award.

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - HONG KONG: BEST CANDIDATE EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	Niccolo Chengdu	DBS Bank
Silver	J Walter Thompson	Maybank
Bronze	King & Wood Mallesons

 

ASIA RECRUITMENT AWARDS 2016 - HONG KONG: BEST ON-BOARDING EXPERIENCE
	2015	2016
Gold	J Walter Thompson	McDonald's Restaurants
Silver	Niccolo Chengdu	Li & Fung
Bronze	Galaxy Entertainment	NWS Holdings

“Innovation and efficiency are among the critical factors that will determine the winning entries for the candidate experience category,” said Evon Yew, regional producer at Human Resources magazine.

“Winning in this category does not only add a title to the team or agency but also validates their vision and recognises their contribution," she added.

The list of past Asia Recruitment Awards winners is filled with the most reputable companies in Asia: British American Tobacco, EPS, Forefront International, GroupM, Hewlett Packard, HSBC, IHS Global, Intel, Jobstreet, ManpowerGroup, Maybank, Media Prima, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Randstad, SAP and many more.

Interested participants can submit their entries until end of January. For more information on Asia Recruitment Awards 2017, to review the award categories and entry requirements, please contact one of the following members of the Human Resources magazine team:

- For Singapore: Seraphine Neoh, seraphinen@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Kuala Lumpur: Hemalatha Siranjeevi, Regional Producer, hemalathas@humanresourcesonline.net, +65 6423 0329- For Hong Kong: Nick Ng, nickn@humanresourcesonline.net, +852 2861 1882