Case Study: Société Générale achieves 50% lift in job applications and lower bounce rates with Algolia

How Société Générale wins talent through search

Société Générale, a leading European financial services group serving 31 million clients and employing about 149,000 people, needed to modernize its global careers site, which aggregated job postings from five continents. The site’s search—last updated in 2012—was slow and required many clicks, limiting the Digital team’s ability to attract higher‑quality candidates within a constrained budget and developer capacity.

They chose Algolia (including the Algolia Crawler and Rules) because it met security requirements, delivered advanced search features, and required far fewer development resources. After the relaunch, global application conversions rose 50%, overall bounce rate dropped 15% (22% on mobile), pageviews per visit fell as the funnel became more efficient, and the crawler automated job indexing—freeing the team to continue iterating with real‑time updates and autocomplete.

Société Générale

Karine Privat de Fortunié

Head of the Global Careers website