Nominations Now Open for 2026 Phenom HR Awards

PHILADELPHIA – October 22, 2025 – Phenom, an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, announced it is accepting nominations for its 2026 Phenom HR Awards.

These awards celebrate excellence in HR, showcasing the measurable impact applied AI delivers across talent acquisition and talent management when deployed at scale — from reducing time to hire and improving candidate quality to enhancing employee development and retention rates.

The 2026 Phenom HR Awards feature expanded categories that reflect the rapid evolution of applied AI, including:

Organizational Excellence Awards

• Top Talent Experience: Redefines what a world-class talent journey looks like

• Best Use of AI: Sets new standards in applying AI in ethical, transparent and human-centric ways that inspire confidence and innovation

• Best Use of Automation: Streamlines and simplifies HR operations through intelligent automation, freeing teams to focus on people, not processes

• Top Collaborator of the Year: Exemplifies the spirit of collaboration by going above and beyond to align teams, innovate jointly and create shared success across projects

• Employer Brand of the Year: Tells a compelling employer story that connects deeply with candidates and employees, driving attraction, engagement and retention

• Best Early Talent Recruiting: Excels at creating memorable, meaningful early talent experiences

• Best Automated Onboarding Experience: Transforms new hire onboarding through intelligent automation that delivers seamless, personalized experiences from day one

• Rookie of the Year: Makes a major impact in record time — showcasing agility, creativity and the potential to lead the future of talent experience

Team Achievement Awards

• Talent Acquisition Team of the Year: Achieves extraordinary results for sourcing, attracting, engaging and hiring talent

• Talent Management Team of the Year: Delivers innovative strategies to develop and retain talent, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for employee growth and organizational success

• HRIT Team of the Year: Creates a holistic tech infrastructure that simplifies complexity through tightly integrated systems and seamless user experiences

Individual Leadership Awards

• Talent Acquisition Leader of the Year: Leads boldly by transforming recruitment strategies through vision, innovation and relentless execution

• Talent Management Leader of the Year: Champions the future of work by empowering talent to grow, thrive and stay

• CHRO of the Year: Leads with a people-first vision that connects culture, talent and business strategy to drive organizational growth

• Talent Marketer of the Year: Crafts bold campaigns and compelling narratives that elevate the employer brand and supercharge talent pipelines

“What sets these customers apart is how seriously they’ve invested in making AI work for HR — to hire faster, develop better and retain longer,” said Christina Brown, Vice President, Global Customer Value at Phenom. “They’re building internal expertise, empowering their teams to own the technology, and driving results that matter. These awards honor that level of commitment and execution.”

Open to Phenom customers worldwide, nominations close November 10, 2025, with award recipients honored at IAMPHENOM 2026, Phenom’s annual conference taking place March 10-12, 2026 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

To learn more about the awards, visit here. Previous winners can be viewed here.

With Phenom, candidates find and choose the right job faster, employees develop their skills and evolve, recruiters become wildly productive, talent marketers engage with extreme efficiency, talent leaders optimize hiring and onboarding processes, managers build stronger-performing teams, HR aligns employee development with company goals, and HRIT easily integrates existing HR tech to create a holistic infrastructure.

About Phenom

Phenom is an applied AI company that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer. By uniquely combining proprietary industry-specific AI, agentic AI, automation and personalized experiences, its Intelligent Talent Experience platform helps companies fundamentally reshape their HR processes and strategies for scalable and sustainable transformation. Driven by a purpose to help a billion people find the right work, Phenom takes a holistic approach that unifies the entire talent journey, augmenting human capabilities and creating a symbiotic relationship between technology and talent.

Phenom has earned accolades including: Inc. 5000’s fastest-growing companies (6 consecutive years), Deloitte Technology's Fast 500 (4 consecutive years), 11 Brandon Hall ‘Excellence in Technology’ awards including Gold for ‘Best Advance in Generative AI for Business Impact,’ Business Intelligence Group’s Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards (3 consecutive years), The Cloud Awards 2025/2024, The A.I. Awards 2024, and a regional Timmy Award for launching and optimizing HelpOneBillion.com (2020).

Headquartered in Greater Philadelphia, Phenom also has offices in India, Israel, the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom.

For more information, please visit www.phenom.com. Connect with Phenom on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.