Between setting up your employee survey, running it, and analyzing the results, you can expect Certification to take at least three to four weeks.

If you need extra time to set up and run your survey, or to get any necessary approvals and budget, you’ll want to account for that in your timeline and expectations.

Plus, as you can see from the calendar above, several months pass between when applications for a list close, and when that list is finalized and published. A lot of companies apply for these lists, and we carefully review those applications, so it takes some time.

This is why you should not delay getting started on Certification- the deadlines can arrive much faster than you think! A list might not be announced until a year from now, but if applications close six months ahead of that, and you have to incorporate Certification into your quarterly planning, you might only have a few weeks to get the process started.