We have said it since inception and we mean it more each year. We win when our customers win.
In 2026, seven of them won big.
Bahwan CyberTek, Birlasoft, CitiusTech, Freechargebiz, Tata Technologies, 7-Eleven GSC, and Axis Mutual Funds have all been honored at the 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards for their work in talent acquisition. That brings RippleHire's total to thirty-one awards across seven years.
Each of these organizations faced a different challenge. Each solved it in a way that was specific to their business, their team, and the hiring reality they were operating in. What ties all seven stories together is a shared shift: away from a model where recruiters manage coordination and paperwork, and toward one where agents handle that work so recruiters can focus on judgment, relationships, and closing.
Here is what each team built, and what it delivered.
Bahwan CyberTek has always believed that how a company hires reflects the company itself. A candidate who experiences clarity, speed, and respect through the process arrives on day one already engaged with the organization they have chosen.
That belief drove Bahwan CyberTek to rebuild its hiring process from the inside out. The focus was on the offer stage, the point where candidate experience most directly shapes acceptance decisions. By removing manual coordination from the process and giving recruiters the space to focus on candidate conversations, Bahwan CyberTek saw offer acceptance climb meaningfully and candidate experience reach 4.9/5.
The Brandon Hall Silver Award for Best Candidate Experience validates what Bahwan CyberTek's own data was already showing: when candidates feel genuinely considered, they say yes.
Birlasoft started from a conviction that their employees were already their best recruiters. The challenge was building a program that made acting on that conviction easy, consistent, and measurable.
The referral program they built engaged more than 5,500 employee advocates. The design was deliberately simple. Employees did not need to navigate a complex portal or chase status updates. They shared, the system tracked, and the outcomes followed.
Over 1.75 million dollars in hiring cost savings through reduced agency dependency. A referral channel that now contributes meaningfully to Birlasoft's overall source mix. And a Brandon Hall Silver Award for Best Unique or Innovative Talent Acquisition Program that recognizes what happens when employee networks are treated as a strategic asset.
CT ReFrenz, CitiusTech's employee referral program, was built on a straightforward insight. The people who understand what it is like to work at CitiusTech are already there. When you give them an easy way to share that understanding with their networks, you reach candidates that no job board ever would.
Referral contributions improved by 100% through CT ReFrenz. The program delivers a 51% unique referral rate, meaning more than half of all referrals are candidates who would not have been in the pipeline through any other channel.
The Brandon Hall Gold Award for Best Recruitment Marketing recognizes CT ReFrenz as a genuine sourcing strategy, a primary channel that produces hires no other method can replicate.
In fintech, the expectation is that things move fast. Freechargebiz applied that same standard to how they hire.
The transformation targeted the stages where time was being lost: offer management, scheduling, and the coordination work that sat between candidate milestones. By deploying agents to handle that work, Freechargebiz's recruiting team recovered the time they needed to focus on the candidate relationships that actually influence acceptance decisions.
Offer turnaround time dropped significantly. Offer acceptance climbed meaningfully. Candidate satisfaction scored 4.9/5.
The Brandon Hall Silver Award for Best Talent Acquisition Process recognizes a hiring engine that now runs at the speed the business demands, while delivering the experience candidates deserve.
Tata Technologies builds engineering solutions for some of the world's most demanding industries. The precision that defines their work for clients is now reflected in how they hire.
Agency dependency was the clearest area for improvement. When external vendors account for a large share of sourcing, the organization loses control of both cost and quality. Tata Technologies set out to change that by building direct and referral sourcing channels that could carry the load.
The shift was significant. Agency dependency dropped by 66%. Offer acceptance crossed 90%. Candidates rate their experience at 4.8/5.
The Brandon Hall Gold Award for Best Talent Acquisition Process recognizes a transformation that gave Tata Technologies back control of their hiring, and delivered the quality of outcome their business required.
Building a global capability center requires attracting people who have choices. The 7-Eleven GSC team understood that their candidate experience would shape how the organization was perceived before anyone ever walked through the door.
They redesigned the process to be fast, transparent, and genuinely respectful of every candidate's time. Offers go out within two days. Candidates receive clear, timely communication at every stage. The experience reflects the standard of the global brand the organization supports.
Offer acceptance climbed to very high levels and candidate satisfaction scored 4.9/5. Candidates who go through the 7-Eleven GSC process are not deciding between options. They are deciding to join.
The Brandon Hall Bronze Award for Best Candidate Experience is recognition of a hiring process that is now as precise as the operations it helps staff.
Axis Mutual Funds manages significant assets for investors who trust the organization with their financial futures. That same discipline now extends to how they hire.
Thousands of applications managed. A fast average time to fill. A 4.9/5 candidate satisfaction score.
Behind those outcomes is a TA team that deployed agents to handle coordination across a high-volume pipeline, freeing recruiters to give genuine attention to each candidate rather than managing administrative work. A 4.9/5 score across thousands of applications is evidence of a process that holds up at scale.
The Brandon Hall Silver Award for Best Candidate Experience recognizes Axis Mutual Funds' commitment to treating every candidate, regardless of role or level, with the precision the organization applies to everything else it does.
Seven different organizations, seven different hiring challenges, seven different sets of outcomes. The model behind all of them is the same.
Agents handle the coordination: scheduling, status updates, document management, offer assembly, and the other systematic work that used to consume recruiter time. Recruiters handle the judgment: which candidates to advance, how to manage the conversation that closes an offer, when to step in and when to let the process run.
That division of labor is what made each of these transformations work. And it is what produced outcomes the Brandon Hall Group recognized as worth celebrating.
Thirty-one awards in seven years. The belief that drove the first one has not changed.
We win when our customers win.
This is not where the story started. RippleHire customers have been winning at the Brandon Hall Awards every year since 2020.
If you want to read about the wins that got us here, the links below take you through the full journey.
2025 Brandon Hall wins
2024 Brandon Hall wins
2023 Brandon Hall wins
2020 - 22 Brandon Hall wins
About the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards
The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards are among the most prestigious honors in human capital management, recognizing organizations that have successfully implemented innovative programs and delivered measurable business outcomes. Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts against a rigorous methodology that evaluates strategy, design, implementation, and measurable results.
Which RippleHire customers won at the 2026 Brandon Hall Awards?
Seven RippleHire enterprise customers won at the 2026 Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards: Bahwan CyberTek (Best Candidate Experience, Silver), Birlasoft (Best Unique or Innovative TA Program, Silver), CitiusTech (Best Recruitment Marketing, Gold), Freechargebiz (Best Talent Acquisition Process, Silver), Tata Technologies (Best Talent Acquisition Process, Gold), 7-Eleven GSC (Best Candidate Experience, Bronze), and Axis Mutual Funds (Best Candidate Experience, Silver).
How many Brandon Hall Awards has RippleHire won in total?
With the seven wins at the 2026 awards, RippleHire customers have accumulated thirty-one Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards across seven consecutive years, from 2020 to 2026.
What is the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award?
The Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards are one of the most respected recognition programs in human capital management. They recognize organizations that have successfully implemented innovative programs in talent acquisition, learning and development, leadership, and HR technology, and delivered measurable business outcomes. Entries are judged by a panel of industry veterans against a rigorous methodology.
What does it mean for a company to win a Brandon Hall Award for talent acquisition?
Winning a Brandon Hall Award for talent acquisition means a judging panel of industry veterans has reviewed the organization's strategy, implementation, and results, and determined that the program meets a high standard of innovation and measurable impact. It requires documented outcomes, not just a compelling submission.
How does RippleHire support its customers in achieving award-winning hiring outcomes?
RippleHire is the AI ATS where recruiters and agents work together. Agents handle the systematic work across the hiring funnel including sourcing, screening, scheduling, offer management, and coordination. Recruiters focus on the decisions and relationships that close great hires. That division of labor is what allows RippleHire customers to deliver the speed, consistency, and candidate experience that produces outcomes worth recognizing.