Case Study: Celanese achieves streamlined global hiring of nearly 1,000 candidates annually with iCIMS Talent Cloud

How a global manufacturer hires nearly a thousand candidates per year from Dallas to Shanghai

Celanese is a Fortune 500 materials manufacturer headquartered in Irving, TX, with about 7,500 employees across 42 countries. The company hires 750–950 people annually—from plant operators to engineers and R&D staff—using a highly decentralized recruiting model, and was struggling with an entirely manual, hard-to-scale hiring process.

Celanese moved its full candidate lifecycle into the iCIMS Talent Cloud (career sites, applicant tracking, onboarding), with regionally customized workflows and local-language job postings. The platform’s reporting and SAP integration automated requisition approvals, improved hiring metrics visibility, and enabled end-to-end diversity tracking—driving diverse candidate slates from 77% in 2019 to 93% and streamlining recruiter and hiring manager workflows.

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