Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, June 2026 — Danaher India has been recognized by HR TODAY with the Excellence in Talent Attraction Award for its outstanding talent acquisition practices demonstrated at Cepheid India, a Danaher operating company. This award was received by Kunal Karan, HR Leader, Cepheid India during HR TODAY Talent Leaders Excellence Awards ceremony held on 5th June 2026 at Bengaluru. The recognition highlights the organization’s innovative and highly effective approach to attracting, engaging, and securing top talent within the highly competitive MedTech research and development ecosystem.
The award acknowledges Danaher India’s ability to create a differentiated talent attraction framework that combines strategic sourcing, talent community building, and employer branding to deliver measurable business outcomes while enhancing candidate experience.
At the heart of this achievement is the organization’s “Hire-to-Engage” strategy, a comprehensive three-layer model designed to strengthen talent pipelines and elevate the employer value proposition. The first pillar, Sourcing Excellence, focused on targeted niche sourcing strategies to identify and attract high-impact MedTech R&D professionals with specialized skills and capabilities. This enabled the organization to effectively compete for scarce talent in a highly specialized market.
The second pillar centered on Talent Communities, where the organization invested in building and nurturing strong internal and external talent networks. By fostering ongoing engagement with prospective candidates and professional communities, Danaher India established a continuous talent pipeline that supports long-term workforce planning and organizational growth.
The third pillar, Employer Branding, emphasized authentic storytelling, differentiated candidate experiences, and enhanced brand visibility. Through a compelling employer value proposition and meaningful engagement initiatives, the organization strengthened its position as an employer of choice within the MedTech sector.
The impact of the strategy has been reflected in several notable outcomes, including single-digit offer drop-out rates, candidate experience scores consistently exceeding 4 out of 5, and a significantly strengthened reputation as a leading employer for MedTech R&D professionals. These achievements demonstrate how a strategically integrated talent attraction model can generate measurable business value even before employees formally join the organization.
The recognition also celebrates the contributions of the leadership and talent teams that have championed this transformation journey. Their collective efforts have helped establish new benchmarks for talent attraction, candidate engagement, and employer branding within the healthcare technology and life sciences sectors.
Congratulating the organization on this achievement, HR TODAY noted that Danaher India’s success reinforces the growing importance of talent attraction as a strategic business capability. By aligning sourcing, talent engagement, and employer branding under a unified framework, the company has demonstrated how organizations can create sustainable competitive advantage through people practices.
About Danaher and Cepheid India
Danaher is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator, helping to solve many of the world’s most important health challenges. Ultimately improving quality of life for billions of people today, while setting the foundation for a healthier, more sustainable tomorrow.
Cepheid, a Danaher operating company, is a global leader in molecular diagnostics, providing innovative diagnostic solutions that improve healthcare outcomes through rapid and accurate testing technologies. Cepheid’s GeneXpert® systems and Xpert® tests automate highly complex and time-consuming manual procedures, providing A Better Way for institutions of any size to perform world-class PCR testing. Cepheid’s broad test portfolio spans respiratory infections, blood virology, women’s and sexual health, Tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infectious diseases, oncology and human genetics. The company’s solutions deliver actionable results where they are needed most – from central laboratories and hospitals to near-patient settings. We call this the PCRplus advantage.
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