Talentegy Wins Bronze in 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards®

DENVER, Sept. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Talentegy, an AI-enhanced talent analytics platform, has been recognized with a Bronze Brandon Hall Group™ HCM Excellence Award^® in the Best Predictive Analytics Solution category for its Predictive Hiring Intelligence at Scale initiative.

The HCM Excellence Awards recognize organizations that successfully develop and deploy programs, strategies, technologies, and solutions that deliver measurable business results and advance excellence in Human Capital Management. Each submission is evaluated by an independent panel of Brandon Hall Group analysts, industry experts, and experienced practitioners across business need, program design, innovation, adoption, and organizational impact.

Talentegy's award-winning initiative addressed a common challenge for large employers: recruiting data spread across multiple systems without a clear way to determine which investments were producing quality candidates and hires. For the Fortune 50 retailer featured in the submission, that challenge existed at significant scale, with more than 116,000 open jobs across 2,000+ U.S. locations and recruiting data distributed across its ATS, career site, media partners, and more than 50 recruiting sources.

Talentegy unified that data into a single analytics environment and shifted measurement from applicant volume to downstream outcomes such as candidate quality, hire rate, and cost per hire. Within the initial implementation period, the platform analyzed 1.59 million applications, 587,000 quality candidates, 105,000 hires, and $2.49 million in media spend. The analysis revealed that 63% of applicants did not meet the organization's quality threshold, a 5.8x quality-rate gap between the highest- and lowest-performing sources, and significant variation in cost per hire, giving leaders clearer insight into where to invest and how to optimize recruiting performance.

The recognition reinforces Talentegy's broader approach to talent analytics: helping organizations move beyond fragmented reporting and top-of-funnel metrics to understand which recruiting activities ultimately produce better candidates, hires, and business outcomes. The platform connects information across the candidate and employee journey to give talent acquisition leaders a clearer view of what is working, where investment should change, and where opportunities exist to improve performance. Talentegy's submission describes the platform as an AI-enhanced talent analytics solution that unifies data across ATS, career site, media, CRM, and recruiting systems.

"Every winning program has demonstrated measurable impact, innovation, and execution through one of the industry's most rigorous evaluation processes," said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group™.

About Talentegy

Talentegy provides an AI-enhanced talent analytics platform that measures, alerts, and plans across the candidate and employee journey. By unifying data across ATS, career site, media, CRM, and recruiting systems, Talentegy provides insight into sourcing effectiveness, candidate quality, conversion rates, hiring outcomes, and workforce trends.

About Brandon Hall Group™

For more than 30 years, Brandon Hall Group has helped organizations translate workforce performance into measurable business results through independent research, benchmarking, strategic advisory, proven practices, and a global executive community. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide have engaged with Brandon Hall Group through its research, advisory services, Excellence Councils, Institute, certifications, and HCM Excellence Awards^®.

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