The 2025 Global Candidate Experience (CandE) Benchmark Report, based on feedback from 66,000+ candidates across dozens of countries, shows where it breaks down:
โข 56% of candidates receive no feedback at all after interviews
โข Only 6% receive assessment-related feedback meaning feedback tied to the actual skills and criteria they were evaluated on
โข When feedback is given, fewer than 1 in 4 candidates find it useful
This is not a matter of intent.
It is a matter of interview design.
When interviews are unstructured and subjective, t๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ท๐ผ๐ฏ-๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ. So feedback becomes vague or disappears entirely.
The data shows why this matters:
๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ณ๐๐น, ๐๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐-๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐, ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป.
At Informed Decisions, feedback is not an extra step.
It is a direct output of structured, skills-based interviews.
Our skills-based, AI interview summary provides you with developmental feedback you can share with candidates with a click of a button.
