Nando Rodriguez (Head of Employment Branding at Horizon Media) + Celinda Appleby (Head of Recruitment Branding at Oracle) come together to give you their insider tips on how to develop your employer brand, execute it and amplify it.
3. NANDO RODRIGUEZ
Head of Employer Branding
& Candidate Experience for
Horizon Media
CELINDA APPLEBY
Global Head of Digital Recruitment
& Employer Brand for Oracle’s Global
Talent Acquisition Organization
4. STRATEGY
Your strategy is your north star guiding you through the
employment branding muck.
75% of job seekers
consider an employer’s
brand before even
applying for a job.
CAREERARC
5. Employers with a strong talent brand
drive 2x the amount of applicants per job
compared to other companies.
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6. QUOTABLE:
The biggest risk is not taking any risk…
In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy
that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
-Mark Zuckerberg
7. EXECUTION
Executing relies heavily on the alignment between your brand, your mission
and company values.
89% of job seekers
feel that a company’s brand
is mostly about their promise.
BECOLOURFUL
8. How a company uses their social channels
will directly impact their ability to attract &
engage talent.
10. ACTIVATION
Targeting the right people with the right message through the right media
triggering the right response.
Employees have 10X more
Social followers than their
Companies have.
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11. Activating your EB will resonate both
externally & internally. Externally, people
are looking for a reason why they should
enter, internally, people are looking for the
reason to stay.
1. Knowing to build a strategy form scratch
2. How to create content that kicks ass
3. How to activate & amplify
According to
Before getting started – look @ 3 competitors
Create a mission statement (hire developers out of MIT) – can be campaign driven
Create your 3 pillars ( what do developers like) 1. visual 2. copy 3. fun (business, culture, careers)
What content for each pillar? Video, imagery, info graphic, employee spotlight, blog post
Exercise – do your company strategy now (10 minutes)
discuss
The brand is “the promise” not necessarily the logo or the photos.
89%: http://www.becolourful.co.uk/2016/02/thought-the-problem-with-branding-2/
1. Knowing to build a strategy form scratch
2. How to create content that kicks ass
3. How to activate & amplify
CONTENT STRATEGY
Trending news, trending topics, Employee advocacy, brand advocates, holidays
What mediums will you use: platforms/channels
Think of your resources – instead of you being responsible -- in newsletter Celinda asks for content form employees)
Content must align to the 3 pillars
Creative brief:
Leveraging employees, how would you create 1 piece of conent leveraging one of the pullars on
Video, instagram, facebook, LinkedIN,
GET AS CREATIVE AS POSSIBLE (15 MINUTES)
ASK HOW TO GET AROUND IT IN INDUSTRIES THAT ARE REGULAGED
Data idea 1 - see attached image (content mix)
Source: http://www.business2community.com/branding/the-7-point-plan-to-employer-brand-management-01366703#WcgyHXZ3ZB8Wt6vL.97
Employees have 10X more social followers than their companies has. Learn how to tap into your talent brand goldmine: https://lnkd.in/bvqxe6Q
CONTENT CALENDARS, SCHEDULING & SHARING
* MAKE SURE IT’S IN A PLACE WITH REAL-TIME CHANGES – GOOGLE EXCEL (REDBOOTH, HOOTSUITE, BUFFER)
* SCHUDULING TOOLS (HOOTSUITE, TWEETDECK, BUFFER, FACEBOOK)
* VARY YOUR CONTENT BY DAYS & TIME – YOU DON’T WANT TO GO TO YOUR SITE AND SEE THE SAME THING ACROSS ALL CHANNELS SAME DAY.
* GET INSIGHTS FROM YOUR CHANNEL TO SEE WHEN YOUR SITE IS MOST ACTIVE