3. The Jobseekers Journey
View an advert in
the local press
Watched video
on mobile
Download Job
Board App – saw
your ad on mobile
Watch old video content
on You Tube
Visit your office for a networking
session / interview
Read reviews on
Glassdoor
Liked your page / clients
page on FacebookViewed a
You Tube Ad
Applied for job via
mobile
Posted a comment
on your blog
Posted experience on Glassdoor, Yelp,
Hire Scores or Recruiter Review
Read something
on the blog
Phoned in to talk
to a Recruiter
Watched THAT
video online
Subliminally saw your
logo on a job board
Looked on
your website
4. Moments of Truth Marketing
Stimulus ZMOT FMOT SMOT UMOT
4
The noise… Zero
moment
of truth
First
moment of
truth
Second
moment of
truth
Ultimate
moment
of truth
Source: Google Squared Course 2014
Power of referral
23. 27% of candidates say an
employer provided an
explanation of why they didn’t
get the job after interviewing
• CareerBuilder Candidate Survey 2015 UK
28. Companies who use employee referral
programs have average retention rates
of 46%, compared to the 33% retention
rates of organizations that only use
career sites.
• http://theundercoverrecruiter.com/employee-referral-program/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-measure-roi-employer-branding-rabi-safi
Have a purpose – The ‘want / need’ to improve is there and driven from the top
ROI of EB is made up of many elements – just like marketing
Many elements involved in implementing a brand straegy – similarly there’s the same level of consideration that’s needed for EB strategies.
Many lessons can be taken from Marketing – here’s a few ways in which we work our brand into our EB
Last year I presented on the digital customer journey
The diagram shows just how many touch points a candidate / potential employee could have access to you / your company before they join
These are potentially all channels that you can harness to deliver your EB message
In more detail, the DCJ is defined using Google’s version of MoT marketing. Stimulus… etc
The theory explains that in the digital age, which we all now operate in, we have only a small number of moments where we can positively influence prospective buyers, or in our case employees.
MoT goes in 5 stages, which are in fact, almost circular. UMOT & ZMOT are the 2 areas which I think we should focus our efforts to optimise the EB
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So in amongst all that noise – how do you optimise / amplify your employer brand?
Audit – find out what you don’t know: Spend time getting to know what other people think - Employee questionnaires, Influencers, Competitors (mystery shopping), Employees, Leaders (Glassdoor)
Data / stats also make C-suite pay attention
Synergy between HR & Marketing - Internal resources review / Capability of recruiters? / Skills in terms of use of social media / Can they work within social media?
Marketing can teach HR & Recruitment to attract & become brand ambassadors
Line managers as active as they can be in the recruitment process. They know the most but the whole team is consulted interviews and candidates get invited to events, so they can feel what it’s like… so they experience an authentic view of the company
Stage 1: Attraction – AUTHENTICITY, keeping it real
EBVP should be consistent with the overall business proposition & then comes the Persona mapping & messaging
Ask the questions: Where do we come from? What can we offer? What are our company values? What can a new employee add?
Our external brand fuels our talent attraction.
Consistency
Tell the story: Inclusive & accepting workplace is where you are encouraged to be yourself
Don’t fake it to make it by creating and sharing content that is overly corporate. Trust and empower your employees to tell their stories in their own way.
Engage and involve your employees – they are your best advocates, storytellers and recruiters for your brand.
Align your employer branding activities with your values, culture and employee value proposition for complete transparency.
Use employee generated content to create transparent ‘show not tell’ visual content using photographs, video and live streaming to showcase your culture and work environment.
Embrace social media and share content and proactively engage with candidates on the relevant social networks.
Respect the culture, languages and styles of the different countries that you operate in
This is a REALLY important stage and one you cant afford to be complacent about.
How visible is your business?
We’re still not getting this right but we are visible.
We’re missing direct links to our career page – which is our Social Referral page
We’re missing a link to our Glassdoor company page, Linkedin and other social pages
Make sure your SEO / SEM specialists have your career page high up in their objectives for traffic / visibility and that your pages are fully optimised
= Be Visible
When a candidate gets there, what does your career site say abou the business, the role, others that work there?
And is it MOBILE?
Your career site should be: The hub of your employer brand activities, full of great content about your company, people, culture and values.
Easy to navigate and simple to use, with prominent links to the popular content such as listed jobs and job search.
Mobile, to enable candidates to access and apply for your jobs from any device they are using.
Candidate focused, so applying for a role on your career site is easy, only asking for the practical information. Capture more information later when required.
What would happen if you told a prospective employee just how long it would take to complete your application process?
During the recruitment process offer great a candidate experience
Show & tell – when we recruit we try to get the candidate into the role before they apply – show them what they could be doing = check fit from the start.
Ensure jobs are visible to your target audience by posting them on relevant job boards, niche sites, social media etc
You want to show candidates the journey ahead as much as possible. It provides motivation and shows that you want to build trust from the start. Your business is transparent.
Leverage the real life experiences of your employees to demonstrate a transparent recruitment process by providing social proof of what it is really like via videos and blogs.
Communicate with candidates during the entire process, with personal messages and configured auto-responders and updates, as it is better to keep them over-informed about their application.
Everything we do – in all BB offices is posted on our social media channels – we have 10 administrators across 2 offices.
This is where the first physical happens, but don’t think that the candidate has already made up their mind before stepping into the office for an interview.
Every interaction, communication, piece of content – both directly and indirectly associated with your business will already have had an influence.
= Reputation has been digested and this is where a candidate will look for proof.
For many businesses, this is where they confirm the worst of the perceptions.
Responding to each and every application shouldn’t be difficult. Technology – like ours and lots of other systems CRMs / ATS will enable you to flag and respond to each and every application, fast and effectively.
What’s your response process? Is it effective and can you optimise it to create a better candidate experience, especially for those who aren’t currently suitable!
A typical year of recruiting at Virgin Media means receiving around 150,000 applications, which translates into hiring around 3,500 people.
In 2015, unfortunately that also equated to upsetting over 7,500 customer applicants enough to motivate them to cancel their contracts and sign up with competitors instead.
These numbers were internally and externally validated and estimated to be worth over $6 million of lost revenue each year.
PH: the challenge was simple: 'Make us famous for candidate experience.'
This challenge quickly led to posing this new question: 'What if your candidate experience was so positive that it created new customer acquisition opportunities from the people we engaged with?'
Interviews! All about the fit
Culture #1 – accept only those that we know fit and thrive (don’t be scared to say no!)
On-board candidates properly by giving them access to prospective team members and other employees during the interview process.
Prospective employees meet peers in interview and in social settings before starting so they know what its really like working here – TRUST
Make your recruiters accountable for candidate experience, by adding feedback received into their individual reviews/appraisals.
Ask for candidate feedback at every stage, and be prepared to action any changes that are needed
Take the time to turn people down properly, especially after interviews, by helping them with useful tips and links.
All perspectives are valid = TRUST
Get feedback. Measure, monitor and adjust
Full disclosure Eg Monthly meetings / Stand ups / Celebrations / Collaboration: Social, CRM, ATS, Data analytics, marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, What’s App, Snap chat etc + SSO
If your leaders tell the story well, get them to tell it continuously / everywhere
Values: The family feel increases productivity / Be kind
Empathy and compassion needs to be from the top down
Invest in great tech - Better, easy to use tech gives employees their time back = happy
Introduction email sent by the new starter, Welcome gift box, help them to feel one of us, Induction meetings with all departments
Training programme from day 1, Directors lunch, Social club
SocialReferral – referral and recommendation + loyalty, dedication, teamwork etc = AMBASSADORS
No social media policies, ie we are all contributors
Our EB is a company thing – every one of us own it.
Stay on good terms with “graduates” / ex-employees eg BCG helps leavers to get new jobs, better contracts etc and asks the leavers to make referrals and talk to new recruits to share their experiences with new starters, even though they have left the business!
Quicker than other channels – sourcing time shorter
Quality hire better – productivity
Retention longer
Managing expectations from the start.
Keep it simple
Employer branding:
creation of value proposition
communication of the set of values
influence to drive perception to target audience
Adopt a grown up and lifestyle approach to people management = we’re all adults (Take the job seriously, not ourselves!)
Establish and promote a good working, reward & recognition programme and celebrate more than top billers
Measure and monitor the data but don’t forget the intangibles – travel, natural disasters = mood altering effects
Extra Tip Use every candidate touch point to remind people of your values, culture and employer brand, by sharing real examples from your own employees.