Winners Announced in the 2023 Rally® Awards™ Recognizing Excellence in Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding

The 2023 Rally® Awards™ honor 29 winners in 14 categories, including Best Content Marketing Program and Best Employer Brand Launch, plus Rising Stars and Recruitment Marketer of the Year

BOSTON, May 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Rally® Recruitment Marketing, the largest community of 45,000 recruitment marketing, employer branding and talent attraction professionals, today announced the winners of the 2023 Rally® Awards™.

Now in its fourth year, the Rally Awards is a global competition that honors excellence in recruitment marketing and employer branding strategies used by employers to attract top talent. This year, 29 awards were presented to individuals and teams for categories that include Best Employer Brand Launch, Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign and Best Careers Social Media Channel. Distinguished awards were also given for Recruitment Marketing Rising Star and Recruitment Marketer of the Year. Illustrating the growing number of employers that are adopting recruitment marketing and talent branding strategies to stand out in this competitive labor market, the number of submissions was the highest in the competition's history.

"The winners of the 2023 Rally Awards show how valuable and vital it is for employers to have talent acquisition professionals with skills in recruitment marketing. Employers that are successful in attracting talent today know how to create a stand-out employer brand and reach candidates through social media and digital marketing, versus relying on the old "post and pray" mentality," said Rally Founder & CEO, Lori Sylvia. "We're proud to shine a light on the pioneering work being done by practitioners in the Rally community and showcase the significant business impact they're having on their companies' growth."

Winners were selected by an independent panel of esteemed peer judges:

• Charlotte Jones, Recruitment Marketing Leader
• Kandi Hardy DeRenzis, Talent Brand Manager, Capital One
• Münteha Mangan, Chief of Employer Branding, Turkish Aerospace
• Catherine Graul, Senior Director of Talent Marketing and Operations, Wycliffe Bible Translators USA
• Ugo Nwankwo, Marketing Manager, Employer Brand, Amazon Web Services (and 2022 Recruitment Marketing Rising Star)
• Jessica Summerfield, Talent Acquisition Marketing Manager
• Chris Woods, Senior Regional Employer Reputation Manager, Mars
• Carrie Corcoran, Senior Employer Brand Manager
• Ally Brown, Employer Brand Manager, VCA Animal Hospitals
• Jonna Sjӧvall, Global Head of Talent Attraction, UBS (and 2022 Recruitment Marketer of the Year)

Each entry was judged on strategy, quality, innovation and verified results.

2023 Rally Award winners by category:

Best Careers Social Media Channel

• 1st place winner: Activision Blizzard — "Bringing Life at Blizzard Entertainment 'Back to Life'"

Best Employer Brand Video

• 1st place winner: UBS — "Junior Talent Campaign for APAC"
• 2nd place winner: Citadel — "What If"

Best Use of Employee Generated Content

• 1st place winner: Kyndryl — "Kid to Kyndryl Employee Activation Campaign"

Best Talent E-Newsletter

• 1st place winner: Intel — "Engaging Key Talent Segments Through Employee Stories"

Best Use of Organic Social Media in Recruitment Marketing

• 1st place winner: Fiverr — "#MyNewTitle Employer Brand Campaign"
• 2nd place winner (tie): PetSmart — Meghan Rozman & Tabatha Phillips — "Loving #LifeAtPetSmart"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Northrop Grumman — "Overheard at Northrop Grumman"

Best Use of Paid Social Media in Recruitment Marketing

• 1st place winner: UBS — "Targeting tech firms with layoffs"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Northrop Grumman — "Overheard at Northrop Grumman"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Westpac — Elizabeth Clerke and Craig Richards — "Engineers make life better"

Best Use of Video in Recruitment Marketing

• 1st place winner: Booz Allen Hamilton — "Be the Future Video Series"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Nestlé USA — "Out of the Box | Innovating What's Next in Pizza"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Citadel — "Extraordinary Colleagues – Joon"

Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign (Large Team)

• 1st place winner: Northrop Grumman — "Overheard at Northrop Grumman"
• 2nd place winner (tie): ChenMed — "ChenMed's Transformative Care Recruitment Campaign for Physicians"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Boston Consulting Group — "Beyond is where we begin"
• 3rd place winner (tie): Labcorp — "Work that benefits others"
• 3rd place winner (tie): Levi Strauss & Co. — Anthony Jones and Antonio Stephens — "Levi Strauss and Co. Behind The Seams Campaign"

Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign (Small Team)

• 1st place winner: Henkel — "Authenticity + Reachability = Success: Henkel's Equation for Attracting Manufacturing Talent in a Competitive Market"

Best Content Marketing Program

• 1st place winner: ChenMed — Jess Almodovar — "ChenMed Content Marketing Recruitment Program"
• 2nd place winner: Kyndryl — "Kid to Kyndryl Employee Activation Campaign"

Best Employer Brand Launch

• 1st place winner: Activision Blizzard — "Rebuilding The Legacy of Activision Blizzard King"
• 2nd place winner (tie): Sevita Health — Denise Feldman — "Sevita's Employer Brand Launch"
• 2nd place winner (tie): ADT — Madisyn Bloom, Amber Weaver & Kayla Branham — "At ADT, You're Entrusted With Tomorrow"

Best Use of Recruitment Marketing Technology

• 1st place winner: Baylor Scott & White Health — "Talent CRM, powered by Phenom"

Recruitment Marketing Rising Stars

• Whitney Wallace, TA Marketing and Sourcing Manager, Baylor Scott & White Health
• Mary Elizabeth Colton, Employment Branding Senior Specialist, Dollar General

Recruitment Marketer of the Year

• Liz Gelb-O'Connor, Vice President of Global Employer Brand and Marketing, ADP

2023 Rally Award Winner Quotes

Award recipients shared their appreciation for the recognition, acknowledging the support of their teams and leaders, and the commitment of their companies in making employer branding and recruitment marketing a strategic initiative for their business.

Elizabeth Clerke, Employer Brand and Recruitment Marketing, Human Resources at Westpac:
"This brief was a joy to work on. We had the opportunity to get up close with the engineer community and understand what motivated them and inspires them to do their best work. Our insight was recognising that engineers are creative individuals driven to make things better for their customers and the community. Our creative agency then delivered great storytelling to bring the idea to life. To be recognised by The 2023 Rally Awards for 2nd Place Winner in Best Use of Paid Social Media in Recruitment Marketing makes all this hard work even more worthwhile. Budjari (Thank you)!"

Paul Norman, VP Talent Acquisition, Sevita:
"We set out to build an authentic employer brand representative of the remarkable employees who drive our mission forward, and those who join us in the future. Careers, well lived is instrumental to our attracting and engaging talent who are aligned with our values and passionate about caring for those we serve. We are truly grateful for this recognition, and for all of our team members who provided feedback and insight to help us create a brand that reflects the employee experience and honors the incredible work they do to provide quality care and services to individuals in communities across the country."

A'Darien Johnson, Enterprise Advertising Lead at Northrop Grumman:
"Congratulations to all of the 2023 Rally Award winners. Our joint NG and Dentsu Creative team is proud of the work we've created to introduce people to Northrop Grumman in an unexpected and entertaining way, and we're truly honored to be part of this year's class."

Jennifer O'Brien, Global Candidate Attraction and Experience Leader at Booz Allen Hamilton:
"My team and I are thrilled to be recognized for our 'Be The Future' video series and our omnichannel recruitment marketing strategy. It's an honor to elevate our passionate, talented employees and share how #LifeatBooz offers fulfilling, impactful work. As a result, we continue to attract top technical talent to our organization."

Mary Elizabeth Colton from Dollar General, Recruitment Marketing Rising Star:
"I feel so lucky to have found the world of talent attraction. With my background in recruiting and my love for storytelling, I have truly found a passion and to have my work recognized in this way is so incredibly rewarding. I am excited to continue learning and growing in this space as I continue my career. Thank you to the Rally community for their support and their guidance, and to my coworkers and friends at Dollar General. I am so honored to be named a Recruitment Marketing Rising Star!"

Whitney Wallace, TA Marketing and Sourcing Manager, Baylor Scott & White Health:
"I am incredibly grateful and humbled to receive recognition from Rally Recruitment Marketing as a rising star in this field. As I've ventured into recruitment marketing, I've been able to apply my recruiting skills to showcase the voices of our employees and attract top talent to our organization. It's a privilege to represent Baylor Scott & White Health, and I'm fortunate to have such a supportive team. Being acknowledged by this community means a lot to me, and I'm truly grateful. Thank you so much!"

Liz Gelb-O'Connor from ADP, Recruitment Marketer of the Year:
"I'm so honored to be chosen by my peers for this prestigious award! I couldn't do what I do without my incredible team and our global partners, who helped me build an award-winning employer brand from the ground up. And none of us could do what we do if we didn't work for such an incredible company, a place I came for the opportunity and stayed for the people. I'm proud of what we have achieved and will continue to invest in mentoring and creating the next generation of employer brand marketers."

About The Rally® Awards
The Rally Awards is a global, peer-reviewed competition recognizing and celebrating excellence in recruitment marketing and employer branding practices. The goal of the competition is to uncover what marketing and branding strategies really work in recruiting and to share those strategies with the Rally Recruitment Marketing community of 45,000 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.

About Rally®
Rally® Recruitment Marketing is an online community where the best Recruitment Marketing ideas are learned and shared to educate and empower you to lead the future of talent acquisition. Rally with us at https://rallyrecruitmentmarketing.com.

Media Contact

Lori Sylvia, Rally Inc., 1 (508) 488-9288, [email protected]

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