An EVP audit checks whether your employer value proposition is true: whether what you promise candidates matches what employees experience and what the internet says about you. Most companies think they've done one because they rewrote the EVP or ran an engagement survey. Neither is an audit. Here's what actually gets checked, why who's contesting a pillar changes the fix, and what a useful finding looks like.

An EVP framework is the structure a company uses to say why someone should work there, then prove it everywhere candidates and employees look. For a mid-market company with nobody whole whole job is employer brand, it has to be light enough to maintain, and every claim needs evidence. Here's what goes in it, why three true pillars beat seven aspirational ones, and why AI makes a contradicted EVP even more expensive than it used to be.

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