24 Awards Given in 13 Categories, including Best Careers Blog and Employer Brand Launch, plus Rising Star and Recruitment Marketer of the Year
Rally® Recruitment Marketing, the largest community of professionals bringing recruiting and marketing together to lead the future of talent acquisition, has announced the winners of the 2020 Rally Awards.
The Rally Awards is a global competition that recognizes and celebrates excellence in recruitment marketing and employer branding practices. The goal of the Rally Awards is to uncover what marketing and branding strategies really work in recruiting, and to share those strategies with the Rally Recruitment Marketing community of 24,000 professionals from around the world. Unlike other award competitions, the Rally Awards honor individuals who work in-house at employers, rather than agencies or vendors.
“Let there be no doubt that recruitment marketing and employer branding make an employer’s talent acquisition strategy more competitive and more successful. These winners have proven it with their remarkable results that draw a clear, bold line all the way from talent attraction to hire,” said Lori Sylvia, Founder & CEO of Rally. “We’re proud to honor them with a 2020 Rally Award!”
Winners were selected by an independent panel of peer judges, who themselves are accomplished practitioners in attracting talent through digital marketing and social media. Each entry was judged on strategy, quality, innovation and verified results.
Announcing the 2020 Rally Award winners by category:
Best Content Marketing Program
- 1st Place Winner – Pulling Back the Curtain on the Stories that Fuel Nestlé, Nestlé USA
- 2nd Place Winner – Campus Presentations Don’t Have to Suck, PwC – PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC
Best Careers Blog
- 1st Place Winner – Life at Cisco, Carmen Collins, Casie Shimansky and Macy Andrews, Cisco
- 2nd Place Winner – From Personas to Blog Posts, Intel
Best Employer Brand Video
- 1st Place Winner – Be You. With Us. #WeAreCisco Employer Brand Video Set, Cisco
- 2nd Place Winner – Ask Me Anything at Nestlé, Nestlé USA
Best Use of Video in Recruitment Marketing
- 1st Place Winner – A Glimpse into Shipbuilding at BAE Systems, Sunnie Rock, BAE Systems
- 2nd Place Winner – Real Food. Real People., The Wendy’s Company
Best Enhanced Job Description
- 1st Place Winner – Do what you love. Love what you do., Megan O’Shea, Dorel Sports
- 2nd Place Winner – HR and Marketing Work Hand-in-Hand to Drive Results, Danielle Raquet, Auto Club Group
Best Use of Employee Generated Content
- 1st Place Winner – Code Review: SQSP Engineering Blog, Squarespace
- 2nd Place Winner – Bringing the Yellowstone Employee Experience to Life through Instagram, Kelly Burns, Sarah Bierschwale, Rick Hoeninghausen, Xanterra
Best Use of Paid Social Media in Recruitment Marketing
- 1st Place Winner – Product Design Q3 Pipeline Builder, Squarespace
- 2nd Place Winner – Booz Allen Paid LinkedIn Strategy, Booz Allen Hamilton
Best Use of Organic Social Media in Recruitment Marketing
- 1st Place Winner – #LoveWhereYouWork Cisco LinkedIn Live, Cisco
- 2nd Place Winner – A Look Inside 14 West: How We Use Instagram, Paige Tester, 14 West
Best Social Careers Channel
- 1st Place Winner – Make It Go Social on Instagram, Mondelez
Best Employer Brand Launch
- 1st Place Winner – Make it @ Mondelez, Mondelez
- 2nd Place Winner (tie) – For the Good of Entertainment, GVC
- 2nd Place Winner (tie) – Putting Corteva Employees at the Center of Employer Brand, Paul Boyett, Dan McElroy, Jennifer Struck, Angie Boyce and Ben Stone, Corteva
Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign
- 1st Place Winner (tie) – #YouBelongHere, Michael McCarry, Meaghan Lynch and Brynn Zech, TE Connectivity
- 1st Place Winner (tie) – #WeAreCisco: National Intern Week, Cisco
Recruitment Marketing Rising Star
- Winner – Dani Kaufman, PetSmart
Recruitment Marketer of the Year
- Winner – ChloéRada, Sodexo
2020 Rally Award Winner Quotes
Award recipients voiced appreciation for receiving this honor, for the recognition of the contributions that they and their teams made over the past year, and their excitement about the future of the recruiting marketing and employer branding discipline.
Chloé Rada from Sodexo, Recruitment Marketer of the Year
“I’m so thrilled and grateful to be awarded with such prestige in our industry. My success is in no small part due to the members of my Sodexo team for joining me on this journey and adopting a continuous improvement mindset. I will always be there for my Talent Acquisition communities, like Rally Recruitment Marketing, just like dozens of people that were there for me when I was just starting out!”
Liz Caselli-Mechael, Digital Communications Lead at Nestlé USA
“We are honored to receive this recognition for our innovation in employer branding and recruitment marketing. I’m proud to work alongside our dedicated teams and grateful for the opportunity to continue sharing Nestlé’s story.”
Rose Marques, Talent Brand Lead at Squarespace
“We’re thrilled that Squarespace is among this year’s Rally Award winners! We are ruthless advocates of this work and can’t wait to watch this space continue to grow.”
Carmen Collins, Sr. Social Media & Talent Brand Manager, Cisco
“It was really nice for the whole @WeAreCisco team to attend together and watch the Rally Awards ceremony on Facebook Live. Seeing how other brands are implementing their recruitment marketing programs was a treat, and competing against the best just makes us strive to be better.”
Dani Kaufman from PetSmart, Recruitment Marketing Rising Star
“I started my career as a recruiter focusing on corporate creative and marketing roles. I loved talking to candidates about branding strategies, creative processes and really bringing messages to life. I was then introduced to a whole industry that combined these two interests – recruitment marketing! I had never realized that marketing messages needed to be crafted for candidates just as much as for customers and I found it extremely exciting. Like nerd level excitement. I jumped into learning everything I could and the Rally community has helped to drive that growth. I’m grateful for the resources the team puts out every week and to attend workshops and conferences with peers who are just as excited about this growing industry as I am!”
Award winners were honored at a virtual awards ceremony and will have their winning work featured on RallyRecruitmentMarketing.com to benefit, inspire and educate talent acquisition and marketing professionals everywhere. The ceremony can be watched on demand at: https://rallyrecruitmentmarketing.com/2020/04/rallyawards-2020-winners/
To learn more about the Rally Awards and to sign up for the 2021 competition, visit: https://rallyawards.com/
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