Equitas wins gold for Candidate Experience at the 2025 IHR Supplier Awards

We’re thrilled to share that Equitas has proudly taken home six awards at the In-house Recruitment Supplier Awards 2025, including gold for Candidate Experience Enabler.

These awards recognise the very heart of what we do: helping organisations run fairer, more efficient interviews that make every candidate feel valued.

“Winning Gold for Candidate Experience means everything to us. It’s validation that our mission to make hiring fairer and more human is resonating across the recruitment world.”

Michael Blakley, Co-Founder and CEO of Equitas.

Alongside our gold win, we are received five silver awards, each one reflecting a key part of the impact we strive to make:

• Customer Experience: how we treat our clients matters. We’re not just a software provider – we’re a partner, supporting every team we work with to feel confident and empowered to deliver great interviews.
• Embedded Solution Provider: we integrate with partners and providers to deliver a fair and seamless end-to-end recruitment process.
• Video Interviewing Provider: interviews should feel personal, not robotic. Our interview platform brings structure and warmth to remote interviews, helping every candidate put their best self forward.
• Outstanding Impact: the work we do isn’t surface-level. We’re driving deeper change in hiring practices and creating fairer processes that lead to more diverse, high-performing teams.
• Leader of the Year: Michael Blakley: a proud moment for us all. This award is a testament to Michael’s passion, vision, and relentless drive to ensure fair hiring for all.

These wins remind us why we do what we do. At Equitas, we believe interviews should never be a guessing game or based on gut feel. They should be structured, inclusive, and grounded in evidence, while providing a stellar candidate experience. Our interview platform combines structure and technology with practical tools & training to help hiring teams make fairer decisions, saving time and costs in the long run. 

When we do interviews right, candidates have better experiences, hiring teams make better hires, and organisations build diverse productive teams.

To discover more about the Equitas interview platform, you can always book a discovery call with our founder Michael Blakley.