To turn recruitment marketing into a discipline at Great Clips, Talent Acquisition Director Jared Nypen started with brand first. He focused on created personalizing content and nurturing their talent network to build brand advocacy and interest.
Simple model – haircuts only
Today, many competitors
Largest haircare brand in the world
Fasted growing
You face hiring challenges – so do we.
Licensed
Hours range from 1000-2300
Cosmetology itself faces challenges
Industry projects 30% closure
70% graduation rate
70% licensure rate
Working for ease and consistency
Salon owners under pressure
Recruiting Services – not the employer
Deliver leads
Teach to recruit - taking small business owners
Focus on RM – better than competitors
Unfair share of licensed stylists
GCI had Talent Network with 200k
Didn’t have info – looked the same
Had IP address
Zees had their own mess
Salon owners gathered contacts via paper recruiting cards
paper applications in the salons
Had own mess
So we had a problem. Even though we had all these contacts, we still had no network to market to.
we had nothing to market!
No employer brand.
Job description
So we had two problems: no content and no network to market to. In other words, recruitment marketing was impossible.
Our mission was clear.
We started with the brand. We engaged a marketing firm who helped us develop our employer brand pillars – creativity, development, family/team environment and what Great Clips offers, like flexibility and instant income.
Photo shoot
Focused on the four pillars.
Creativity brand that would resonate with stylists – where they could see themselves working with the individuals in the pictures.
Tattoos, which are popular with stylists – remember, creativity is important to them.
We made up words to ignite a feeling, like Stylisthood, which we’ve now trademarked.
And we created a family feel, which we knew would resonate with stylists.
We launched the new brand on a new career site hosted by SmashFly, effectively replacing our consumer branded career site.
Once we created a brand, it was time to create content. So, what did we do? We created a content strategy to deliver information that was relevant to stylists and content that we were experts in. We made it really easy by putting content into three buckets – industry-related content, career- related content, and content that showed Great Clips as a great place to work (without directly saying it).
Next, we needed a place to house the content. The obvious choice was Facebook, so we created a Facebook Careers page. We’re in the process of adding channels – think of the fun things we can do in the hair stylist world with Instagram and even Pinterest. Okay, now one problem was solved – we had the brand and the content. Next, we needed to connect stylists to this content.
remember, we had this database with almost 200,000 contacts.
implemented recruitment marketing platform including the CRM.
Ported, engaged, and gave prizes
Made it easy to gather lead information
….or student information that they could collect at the numerous events they host in Cosmetology schools each year.
The result? Now, we know something about the contacts in our database.
We know where they live.
We know their interests.
We know if they are a stylist, a student, or an educator
…which also means that we can send, segmented, personalized content that’s meaningful to the recipient.
Use RM to connect to our social content, so that they can receive the information in the format they prefer – whether that’s social or email.
Example – scholarship and different audiences
In addition to segmenting by audience type, we can segment by location.
For example, this message was sent to stylists in just our Denver market.
So the second problem? Solved! With these things we’re doing, we have a really good start to our recruitment marketing. So what’s next?
Personality – I’m an improver
We’re working to improve
Cover slide
Won’t stop there – goal is to make recruitment markets at a local level
I deal with zees – you deal with business units
Feels like herding cats? We’re up for the challenge.
To do it, introduced new
Most at level one recruiting – advertising.
Many at level 2, which is engaging.
Need to focus on level 3 – relationship building
When a stylist decides
Implemented CRM to help – goal is to give to zees
School conversation example
Relationships enabled by SmashFly – the future of how our franchisees will need to compete to get their unfair share of stylist talent.
If I had to give advice,
Build employer brand
Content strategy that engages candidates – right content, right format
Build a network
Have a process to engage
Let it lead to relationships
Take technology and innovation