Riyadh: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSH) has won the Best Recruitment and Onboarding Strategy category at the HR Summit and Expo (HRSE) KSA Awards 2026, recognizing its efforts to transform its recruitment and onboarding system and redesign the talent journey from recruitment and hiring through onboarding and integration into the workplace, achieving a 95% satisfaction rate among high-performing employees. According to Saudi Press Agency, KFSH has transformed its recruitment and onboarding system with a focus on creating a more integrated and seamless journey for candidates and new employees. This includes enhancing recruitment and hiring processes, improving the onboarding experience, and strengthening employee readiness from the outset, as part of an approach that connects talent attraction with recruitment quality and effective onboarding. Chief People Officer at KFSH Majid Almegil emphasized that the development of their recruitment and onboarding system is grounded in viewing the talent journey as an integrated process. This process begins with the first interaction with a candidate and continues through their integration into the workplace. The journey has been redesigned to connect talent attraction with recruitment efficiency and onboarding quality, with the aim of providing candidates and new employees with a clearer and smoother experience and preparing them to begin their professional journey at KFSH. The award reflects the transformation of KFSH's recruitment and onboarding system, including enhancements to the candidate and new-employee journey, more efficient recruitment processes, and an improved onboarding experience, supporting the attraction and onboarding of talent and their successful integration into the KFSH workplace. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center has been ranked first in the Middle East and Africa and 12th globally among the world's top 250 academic medical centers for 2026. It has also been recognized by Brand Finance as the most valuabl e healthcare brand in the Kingdom and the Middle East, and was listed by Newsweek among the World's Best Hospitals, World's Best Smart Hospitals, and World's Best Specialized Hospitals for 2026.