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Honoring the 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-Winners: Best Unique or Innovative Talent Acquisition Program; Best Sourcing & Assessment Strategy; Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Process; Best Advance in Interviewing Strategy; Best Social Talent Acquisition Strategy; Best Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding Program

Honoring the 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Award-Winners: Best Unique or Innovative Talent Acquisition Program; Best Sourcing & Assessment Strategy; Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Process; Best Advance in Interviewing Strategy; Best Social Talent Acquisition Strategy; Best Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding Program

Best Unique or Innovative Talent Acquisition Program

Sydney Water Uses Social Sourcing to Create Awareness of Openings:

Sydney Water’s “Social Sourcing for Success” used an innovative marketing and recruitment strategy across omni channels leveraging social media, media, alumni, industry peak bodies, career websites, advertising and referrals to create interest and awareness of the business as an industry leader with an exciting culture. With the help of Manpower Group, Test Grid and Elemental Projects, another clever selection approach leveraging automated video interviewing, online psychometric assessments and an assessment center with gamified project simulations and face to face interviews. Sydney Water, ManpowerGroup, Test Grid and Elemental Projects were honored with a Gold Award for Best Unique or Innovative Talent Acquisition Program in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We also honor these award-winning organizations in this category: Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd, iCIMS, Kibar Holding, KocSistem Bilgi ve Iletisim Hizm. A.S., QNB Finansbank, Sydney Water, ZURICH NORTH AMERICA

Best Sourcing & Assessment Strategy 

We honor these award-winning organizations in this category: Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bank of America Corporation, QNB Finansbank

Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Process 

Achieve. Create. Collaborate. Organize.’ Improves Many Talent-Acquisition Metrics at ACCO Brands: ACCO Brands’ “Achieve. Create. Collaborate. Organize.” evolves talent acquisition through process improvements and technology upgrades to create a highly functional and streamlined approach for external and internal stakeholders. As a result, many metrics improved, including a 10% improvement in days to fill — and the lowest in more than six years. ACCO Brands was honored with a Silver Award for Best Advance in Talent Acquisition Process in the 2020 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards.

We honor these award-winning organizations in this category: Bank of America Corporation, Covia, L&T Technology Services, LTD, QNB Finansbank

Best Advance in Interviewing Strategy

We honor these award-winning organizations in this category: Accenture Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bank of America Corporation, INSPUR Co., Ltd., QNB Finansbank , Tofaş Türk Otomobil Fabrikası A.Ş

Best Social Talent Acquisition Strategy

We honor these award-winning organizations in this category: SAP, Sydney Water, Trampoline Tech Private Limited, 

Best Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding Program

We honor these award-winning organizations in this category: NeoGenomics, SAP

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Mike Cooke

Chief Executive Officer of Brandon Hall Group Mike Cooke Prior to joining Brandon Hall Group, Mike Cooke was the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AC Growth. Mike held leadership and executive positions for the majority of his career, at which he was responsible for steering sales and marketing teams to drive results and profitability. His background includes more than 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, management, and operations in the research, consulting, software and technology industries. Mike has extensive experience in sales, marketing and management having worked for several early high-growth emerging businesses and has implemented technology systems to support various critical sales, finance, marketing and client service functions. He is especially skilled in organizing the sales and service strategy to fully support a company's growth strategy. The concept of growth was an absolute to Mike and a motivator in starting AC Growth, in order to help organizations achieve research driven results. Most recently, Mike was the VP and General Manager of Field Operations at Bersin & Associates, a global analyst and consulting services firm focused on all areas of enterprise learning, talent management and talent acquisition. Tasked with leading the company's global expansion, Mike led all sales operations worldwide. During Mike's tenure, the company has grown into a multi-national firm, conducting business in over 45 countries with over 4,500 multi-national organizations. Mike started his career at MicroVideo Learning Systems in 1992, eventually holding a senior management position and leading all corporate sales before founding Dynamic Minds. Mike was CEO and Co-Founder of Dynamic Minds, a custom developer of software programs, working with clients like Goldman Sachs, Prentice Hall, McGraw Hill and Merrill Lynch. Also, Mike worked for Oddcast, a leading provider of customer experience and marketing solutions, where he held a senior management position leading the company into new markets across various industries. Mike also serves on the Advisory Board for Carbon Solutions America, an independent sustainability consulting and carbon management firm that specializes in the design and implementation of greenhouse reduction and sustainability plans as well as managing the generation of carbon and renewal energy and energy efficiency credits. Mike attended University of Phoenix, studying Business Administration and Finance. He has also completed executive training at the Chicago Graduate School of Business in Chicago, IL.

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