The 7 Secrets to Successful Recruitment MarketingSoutherlyComms
On the hunt for top talent?
Recruitment content marketing helps you cut through the noise and show candidates why you're the employer for them.
Learn the 7 secrets to successful recruitment marketing here.
SmashFly's Chris Brablc and Tracey Parsons deep dive into the 13 recruitment marketing best practices talent acquisition teams need to use in 2016, influenced by findings from the Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2015 Fortune 500.
The Secret Sauce of High-Performance Recruitment MarketingGlassdoor
Talent acquisition has often drawn on elements of marketing and sales in the past. Today, recruitment marketing has become a more formalized process, and the most effective hiring organizations leverage advanced marketing practices to create highly effective strategies that go well beyond simply broadcasting open jobs. But not all recruitment marketing strategies are created equal.
Glassdoor, one of the leaders in employer brand management, has partnered with Brandon Hall Group to present “The Secret Sauce of High-Performance Recruitment Marketing.” Join Brandon Hall Group Talent Acquisition Analyst, Kyle Lagunas; 1-800-Contacts’ VP of Human Resources and Administration, Rod Lacey; and Glassdoor's Director of Product Marketing, Alison Hadden as they present exclusive insights into:
--How to bake engagement, cohesion, authenticity, agility and measurement into your recruitment strategy
--How to leverage SEM, social media marketing, employer brand management, candidate relationship management and content marketing to attract the best candidates
--How 1-800 Contacts promotes its employer brand and effectively attracts top talent
SmashFly's Director of Marketing outlines 5 fundamental shifts in talent acquisition and how recruitment marketing practices will help organizations strengthen their talent acquisition strategies.
The 7 Secrets to Successful Recruitment MarketingSoutherlyComms
On the hunt for top talent?
Recruitment content marketing helps you cut through the noise and show candidates why you're the employer for them.
Learn the 7 secrets to successful recruitment marketing here.
SmashFly's Chris Brablc and Tracey Parsons deep dive into the 13 recruitment marketing best practices talent acquisition teams need to use in 2016, influenced by findings from the Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2015 Fortune 500.
The Secret Sauce of High-Performance Recruitment MarketingGlassdoor
Talent acquisition has often drawn on elements of marketing and sales in the past. Today, recruitment marketing has become a more formalized process, and the most effective hiring organizations leverage advanced marketing practices to create highly effective strategies that go well beyond simply broadcasting open jobs. But not all recruitment marketing strategies are created equal.
Glassdoor, one of the leaders in employer brand management, has partnered with Brandon Hall Group to present “The Secret Sauce of High-Performance Recruitment Marketing.” Join Brandon Hall Group Talent Acquisition Analyst, Kyle Lagunas; 1-800-Contacts’ VP of Human Resources and Administration, Rod Lacey; and Glassdoor's Director of Product Marketing, Alison Hadden as they present exclusive insights into:
--How to bake engagement, cohesion, authenticity, agility and measurement into your recruitment strategy
--How to leverage SEM, social media marketing, employer brand management, candidate relationship management and content marketing to attract the best candidates
--How 1-800 Contacts promotes its employer brand and effectively attracts top talent
SmashFly's Director of Marketing outlines 5 fundamental shifts in talent acquisition and how recruitment marketing practices will help organizations strengthen their talent acquisition strategies.
SmashFly's Chief Marketing Officer and Aberdeen Group's Senior Analyst join forces in this webinar to talk about how best-in-class organizations use recruitment marketing and recruitment marketing technology to differentiate themselves, engage candidates and win top talent. Backed by awesome stats from Aberdeen's latest report, this webinar will help you make a business case for recruitment marketing in your organization.
SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2015 Fortune 500 SmashFly Technologies
Do you know where you stand in recruitment marketing best practices? In July-August 2015, SmashFly analyzed the career websites of the 2015 Fortune 500 to understand their use of Recruitment Marketing practices. See the full SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card.
The universe has changed: Candidates are like consumers. This new dynamic of candidates as consumers has huge implications for your recruitment. Namely:
How you gather data on interested candidates, and what can you do with that?
How do you offer a compelling relationship with your brand for candidates at all stages of the process, both during attraction and selection.
How do you build rich candidate profiles that help you target the right candidates, and then make data driven decisions about who to hire.
The Trilogy of Modern Talent Acquisition: Employer Branding, Recruitment Mark...SmashFly Technologies
This webinar from Glassdoor's Dina Rulli and SmashFly's Chris Brablc was an interactive discussion on using integrated recruitment marketing and employer branding to capture thousands of qualified candidates in your talent network, nurture them to become fans of your employer brand, and analyze and optimize the effectiveness of every recruitment marketing dollar.
And get great hires faster who meet the talent needs of the business.
You’ll learn how to:
- Define the key attributes of your employer brand
- Use content marketing to attract qualified candidates
- Implement email nurturing to keep your talent network engaged
- Track, measure and analyze recruitment marketing success
Recruitment Marketing 101: How to Leverage Social Tools to Promote Your Emplo...Glassdoor
Join Glassdoor and Cigna for “Recruitment Marketing 101: How to Leverage Social Tools to Promote Your Employer Brand”. We explore how global healthcare insurance company Cigna upgraded its employer brand and social media strategies to help job seekers develop a strong interest in its organization.
Survey of talent acquisition organizations reveals:
* How to get 28% more hires from referrals by doing this one thing
* Percentage of organizations with formal ERPs and what results they get
* Ways organizations manage and track referrals today, and what challenges they face
* Most popular incentives used to reward successful referrals
* What you can do to generate more hires from referrals without sacrificing quality of candidates
The survey was conducted in April 2015 by SmashFly Technologies, the leading Recruitment Marketing Platform provider: http://smashfly.com
Experts from Glassdoor and SmashFly discuss the candidate journey and nurture's role in recruitment marketing. Learn how to use a nurture strategy throughout each stage of the candidate journey, from attraction to application to hire.
Talent Brand ROI Webcast: Metrics To Measure Talent Brand SuccessLinkedIn
Join LinkedIn's Talent Brand experts for a live webcast: 'Talent Brand ROI: Metrics Speak Louder Than Words', and learn how to demonstrate the impact of your talent brand including four key metrics to measure ROI and talent brand success.
Lockheed Accelerates with Total Recruitment Marketing - @talentcommunity & @S...SmashFly Technologies
Presented at 2014 HR Technology Conference. Lockheed Martin doesn’t just talk about people as their greatest organizational asset – its backed by a topnotch talent- acquisition process aimed at strengthening its team, now 116,000 strong. But, to maintain its competitive advantage, it needs to stay on the forward edge of recruiting. So when the company needed a way to bring all its separate initiatives together into a cohesive strategy for greater efficiency and also to gain the full visibility integral to improve overall resource allocation and decision-making, it implemented a Recruitment Marketing Platform to build a data-driven recruitment strategy. Now, the insights from the data help their teams foster engagement and community with the specialized candidates they need to attract. Marvin Smith will show you how to promote and leverage employment brand, social media, employee referrals, alumni networks and digital campaigns to discover and attract hard-to-find skilled candidates and the kinds of people needed to drive your business forward.
Introduction was provided by Mike Hennessy on the evolving role of recruitment marketing in how companies attract the right qualified talent to the organization.
Jen Sommesi of CDW shares how the organization built their employer brand through a recruitment marketing strategy focused on engagement, personalization and content. This was originally presented as a keynote at the 2015 HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference.
The Evolution of Recruitment Marketing: Benchmarking Adoption & Opportunities...SmashFly Technologies
Recruitment marketing is an evolving practice. But innovation in the space has not kept up with quickly rising stakes. Find out where the Fortune 500 win, and where they can improve when it comes to recruitment marketing.
Lindsey Edwards, Head of Product, Connected Enterprise at LinkedIn, unveils some of the exciting developments that will help higher education institutions better market their programs and services on the LinkedIn platform.
Currently, only 20% of a candidate’s decision on whether to apply to a company is based on the channels directed by the company itself. How do recruiters influence the 80% of messages outside of their control?
This presentation was from a joint event LinkedIn held with CEB where CEB's Practice Leader, Thomas Handcock, discussed the topic of 'Branding for Influence' from CEB’s research followed by one of LinkedIn's media solutions consultant's, Aoife Morehead, who went into this in further detail using real life examples.
Learn more about your Talent Brand Index at http://linkd.in/1CHwo0I.
In today’s competition for top talent, your reputation as an employer is a key factor in whether a candidate will take your job – or leave it.
The bottom line impact is real: a strong talent brand reduces cost per hire by up to 50% and lowers turnover rates by 28%.
To snag top talent, small businesses need to focus on strengthening their talent brand to make their company stand out. Lauren Hodgson, Head of Hiring at Infusionsoft, shares must-knows for building your talent brand.
Download the ultimate LinkedIn guide for small business: http://linkd.in/1rHBqBk
Marketing Strategy For Creative ProfessionalsWise Elephant
These are the slides from my Workbook/Wise Elephant seminar for creative professionals which took place in June 09. I provide both an overview of methods as well as a tactics "routine."
SmashFly's Chief Marketing Officer and Aberdeen Group's Senior Analyst join forces in this webinar to talk about how best-in-class organizations use recruitment marketing and recruitment marketing technology to differentiate themselves, engage candidates and win top talent. Backed by awesome stats from Aberdeen's latest report, this webinar will help you make a business case for recruitment marketing in your organization.
SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2015 Fortune 500 SmashFly Technologies
Do you know where you stand in recruitment marketing best practices? In July-August 2015, SmashFly analyzed the career websites of the 2015 Fortune 500 to understand their use of Recruitment Marketing practices. See the full SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card.
The universe has changed: Candidates are like consumers. This new dynamic of candidates as consumers has huge implications for your recruitment. Namely:
How you gather data on interested candidates, and what can you do with that?
How do you offer a compelling relationship with your brand for candidates at all stages of the process, both during attraction and selection.
How do you build rich candidate profiles that help you target the right candidates, and then make data driven decisions about who to hire.
The Trilogy of Modern Talent Acquisition: Employer Branding, Recruitment Mark...SmashFly Technologies
This webinar from Glassdoor's Dina Rulli and SmashFly's Chris Brablc was an interactive discussion on using integrated recruitment marketing and employer branding to capture thousands of qualified candidates in your talent network, nurture them to become fans of your employer brand, and analyze and optimize the effectiveness of every recruitment marketing dollar.
And get great hires faster who meet the talent needs of the business.
You’ll learn how to:
- Define the key attributes of your employer brand
- Use content marketing to attract qualified candidates
- Implement email nurturing to keep your talent network engaged
- Track, measure and analyze recruitment marketing success
Recruitment Marketing 101: How to Leverage Social Tools to Promote Your Emplo...Glassdoor
Join Glassdoor and Cigna for “Recruitment Marketing 101: How to Leverage Social Tools to Promote Your Employer Brand”. We explore how global healthcare insurance company Cigna upgraded its employer brand and social media strategies to help job seekers develop a strong interest in its organization.
Survey of talent acquisition organizations reveals:
* How to get 28% more hires from referrals by doing this one thing
* Percentage of organizations with formal ERPs and what results they get
* Ways organizations manage and track referrals today, and what challenges they face
* Most popular incentives used to reward successful referrals
* What you can do to generate more hires from referrals without sacrificing quality of candidates
The survey was conducted in April 2015 by SmashFly Technologies, the leading Recruitment Marketing Platform provider: http://smashfly.com
Experts from Glassdoor and SmashFly discuss the candidate journey and nurture's role in recruitment marketing. Learn how to use a nurture strategy throughout each stage of the candidate journey, from attraction to application to hire.
Talent Brand ROI Webcast: Metrics To Measure Talent Brand SuccessLinkedIn
Join LinkedIn's Talent Brand experts for a live webcast: 'Talent Brand ROI: Metrics Speak Louder Than Words', and learn how to demonstrate the impact of your talent brand including four key metrics to measure ROI and talent brand success.
Lockheed Accelerates with Total Recruitment Marketing - @talentcommunity & @S...SmashFly Technologies
Presented at 2014 HR Technology Conference. Lockheed Martin doesn’t just talk about people as their greatest organizational asset – its backed by a topnotch talent- acquisition process aimed at strengthening its team, now 116,000 strong. But, to maintain its competitive advantage, it needs to stay on the forward edge of recruiting. So when the company needed a way to bring all its separate initiatives together into a cohesive strategy for greater efficiency and also to gain the full visibility integral to improve overall resource allocation and decision-making, it implemented a Recruitment Marketing Platform to build a data-driven recruitment strategy. Now, the insights from the data help their teams foster engagement and community with the specialized candidates they need to attract. Marvin Smith will show you how to promote and leverage employment brand, social media, employee referrals, alumni networks and digital campaigns to discover and attract hard-to-find skilled candidates and the kinds of people needed to drive your business forward.
Introduction was provided by Mike Hennessy on the evolving role of recruitment marketing in how companies attract the right qualified talent to the organization.
Jen Sommesi of CDW shares how the organization built their employer brand through a recruitment marketing strategy focused on engagement, personalization and content. This was originally presented as a keynote at the 2015 HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference.
The Evolution of Recruitment Marketing: Benchmarking Adoption & Opportunities...SmashFly Technologies
Recruitment marketing is an evolving practice. But innovation in the space has not kept up with quickly rising stakes. Find out where the Fortune 500 win, and where they can improve when it comes to recruitment marketing.
Lindsey Edwards, Head of Product, Connected Enterprise at LinkedIn, unveils some of the exciting developments that will help higher education institutions better market their programs and services on the LinkedIn platform.
Currently, only 20% of a candidate’s decision on whether to apply to a company is based on the channels directed by the company itself. How do recruiters influence the 80% of messages outside of their control?
This presentation was from a joint event LinkedIn held with CEB where CEB's Practice Leader, Thomas Handcock, discussed the topic of 'Branding for Influence' from CEB’s research followed by one of LinkedIn's media solutions consultant's, Aoife Morehead, who went into this in further detail using real life examples.
Learn more about your Talent Brand Index at http://linkd.in/1CHwo0I.
In today’s competition for top talent, your reputation as an employer is a key factor in whether a candidate will take your job – or leave it.
The bottom line impact is real: a strong talent brand reduces cost per hire by up to 50% and lowers turnover rates by 28%.
To snag top talent, small businesses need to focus on strengthening their talent brand to make their company stand out. Lauren Hodgson, Head of Hiring at Infusionsoft, shares must-knows for building your talent brand.
Download the ultimate LinkedIn guide for small business: http://linkd.in/1rHBqBk
Marketing Strategy For Creative ProfessionalsWise Elephant
These are the slides from my Workbook/Wise Elephant seminar for creative professionals which took place in June 09. I provide both an overview of methods as well as a tactics "routine."
Materi presentasi tentang bagaimana membangun budaya 'excellent customer service' untuk semua jenis bisnis maupun kehidupan, layaknya hospitality service.
JobPost Recruitment Agency: Strategy, Technology and SalesRussell Dalgleish
Tips & advice to build and scale an exceptional recruitment business
Russell Dalgleish, Managing Partner, Exolta Capital Partners
Strategy & Execution
How technology will help
Its all down to Sales
As Managing Partner of Exolta Capital Partners Russell assists clients to define and implement growth strategies aimed at optimising value creation within their business. Experience in the recruitment sector includes build, growth and exit; application of technology and development of teams across multiple international sectors. Board member MBN Solutions, Chair WeAreTheFuture supporting youth entrepreneurship, Chair WeDO Scotland - Edinburgh's largest SME support community, advisor Par Equity and Co-Founder Klozers Academy - developing young sales talent.
Marketing strategies for services sector by G.RekaPOLIKAIYOOR REKA
The service industry forms a backbone of social and economic development of a region. It has emerged as the largest and fastest-growing sectors in the world economy, making higher contributions to the global output and employment. Its growth rate has been higher than that of agriculture and manufacturing sectors. It is a large and most dynamic part of the Indian economy both in terms of employment potential and contribution to national income. It covers a wide range of activities, such as trading, transportation and communication, financial, real estate and business services, as well as community, social and personal services. This paper attempts to define the service sector, particularly on marketing strategies in service sector
A Marketing Strategy for Service FirmsRonald Ellis
How service firms might develop and implement a Marketing Strategy prepared by The MIS Department (Later 2SS.Com) for Management Advisory Services a local business and marketing consulting firm.
Manpower Recruitment Agency, Recruitment Consultant, Best Solution for Recru...MM Enterprises
M.M Enterprises is an International recruitment agency and Manpower consultant in India for over one and half decades providing the best recruitment services to clients in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Dubai, Kuwait, U.A.E, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan etc.. We aim at providing total manpower solutions to our valuable clients with a highly customized approach.
Oil and gas manpower recruitment agency in pakistan , "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons" is expanding constantly as manpower resource of Asia, and invites everyone openly to be the part of this growth, with one of the best manpower recruiting agency. We top the list of manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan. We have our name associated with the largest companies in Middle East especially in UAE and Saudi Arabia, as one of the best and trusted manpower recruitment agency, which is playing a key role as manpower consultant in Pakistan since more than two decades. We deal with the promise to find the best available option for you without wasting your time and money. As a very professional and consigned human resource consultant, we believe in long term commitments and exquisite services for the clients, either jobseeker or employer. This is the basic reason we top in the list of manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan.
Our huge data base shows an exemplary foundation of world class overseas recruiting agency, presenting the right talent for the employers. Unlike any typical manpower recruiting agency that deals in overseas employment, "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons" processes important dealings fast and accurately. We have maintained a standard of the top-notch human resource consultant in Pakistan and in Middle East.
The largest recruitment group in Pakistan, invites you to be the part of it and get the best recruitment options overseas. "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons", the only group in Pakistan that deals with all kinds of recruitment overseas and ensures the provision of top-notch human resource services and manpower recruitment.
In Pakistan, many recruitment groups have created hype about the classy overseas employment and the very same recruitment group in Pakistan fail to understand even the minimum standards of basic overseas manpower recruitment. The recruitment groups are not only expected to assess manpower but also provide them with the satisfaction and security through recruitment policies that benefit both employees and employer. In Pakistan, we have multi-talented manpower but the lack of recruitment opportunities cover their talents and leave it to rust. On the other hand, some groups in name of recruitment play complex games leaving the manpower here in wariness. These recruitment group in Pakistan not only defame the manpower from Pakistan, overseas but also limit the opportunities of recruitment for the manpower here. If you ever have being linked with any such group and have a mistrust towards recruitment groups now, "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons" offer you to try a genuine recruitment group in Pakistan. We have a strong background in overseas recruitment and human resource being the trustworthy recruitment group in Pakistan, believing in long term relationships and ultimate satisfaction of work. We are the group that specialize in human resource, overseas recruitment and manpower placement with ultimate professionalism, in Pakistan.
"Abdul Ghaffar a
Manpower Recruitment Agencies in Pakistan
There is a huge list of manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan, which makes confusions among the clients and create trust issues. The competition between the manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan is so much that people usually end up with the unauthentic and unprofessional human resource consultants for overseas employment that it leaves them and their money in jeopardy. Even among the top manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan, there are some which do not keep the standards of an overseas placement consultant and provide the unsatisfactory services in terms of employment, recruitment, human resource and consultancy. The lower quality of services among the manpower suppliers leave a very few standardized manpower consultants, who can actually provide the meritorious employment and human resource, overseas. Most of the placement consultants forget their promises and agreement made with reference to standard employment, recruitment and human resource. With "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons", your details are promisingly safe as we work with the ultimate professionalism for recruiting and employment as a placement consultants. We are bound to provide the transcendent assistance being classified as the best human resource consultant in Pakistan. We offer the packages that no other placement consultant can offer you.
You will find no other Pakistani recruitment agency to offer you such a blend of services in overseas employment and placement. The list of manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan must be huge, but only a few actually fit the frame. "Abdul Ghaffar and Sons" is one Pakistani recruitment agency to fulfill the criteria of top manpower recruitment agencies in Pakistan.
We assure to provide you with exactly what you want, assessing and meeting your needs with our world class services of recruiting agency. We firmly believe in "A promise made is a debt unpaid." We follow strict protocols when it comes to the delivery of quality and excellence, as it is the matter or our caliber and prestige being most trusted manpower recruiting agency in Pakistan.
Sigma Recruitment Agency- company presentationsteppingstones
Award Winning, Results Driven Specialist Recruitment Agency -
With Extensive Sector Knowledge and Experience.
A specialist recruitment agency based in Cardiff, Sigma Recruitment has a proven track record of recruiting for organisations across South Wales.
Established in 2005 - Sigma Recruitment has recruited for some of the largest and most successful manufacturing companies in South Wales including large blue chip organisations and leading worldwide brand names. Our experienced consultants have a wealth of recruitment experience.
We specialise in the following range of skill sets:
Technical / Engineering
Purchasing and Logistics
Management
Scientific
Human Resources
Customer Service and Administration
Why Use Sigma Recruitment?
7 Year Track Record
Exceptional Candidates
30,000 Plus Database
Sector Leading Success Rate
Quality Screening Process
No Success, No Fee.
Every candidate undertakes a detailed interview before they are presented to a client. Our vetting process is proven to save time and ensure the highest quality candidates. Our recruitment consultants have extensive experience in the technical, engineering and scientific sectors resulting in consistency and quality of the client / consultant relationship.
We would like to provide you with first-hand experience of the Sigma Recruitment “difference” and to show you that not all recruitment agencies are the same.
In 2007 the Company’s achievements were recognised with a Western Mail Hot 100 award.
This is a marketing powerpoint on marketing strategies. the information is from http://www.knowthis.com/principles-of-marketing-tutorials/marketing-planning-and-strategy/
2015 Social Recruitment Management Benchmarking SurveyMaximum Nederland
We asked 125 employers from around the world that make use of social media for employer branding and recruitment questions on their objectives, channels used, management, measurement and their challenges. The results of the 2015 Social Recruitment Management Benchmarking Survey are in and have revealed some interesting changes in employers’ social recruitment management in comparison to our 2014 survey.
Adoption of Social Media in HR & RecruitmentJeff Waldman
SocialHRCamp was founded and launched in early 2012. Camps have been run in Vancouver twice, Toronto twice, San Francisco twice, and Boston. Smaller-scale events were run in Singapore, Manila, Chicago and Atlanta.
Each Camp attendee registers through an Eventbrite registration page. During this process they are asked to respond to 3 key non-mandatory questions about their social media use. 336 of Camp attendees in 2012 and 2013 provided useful data to these questions, which forms the basis of this report.
The 12 Key Takeaways from SocialMediaExaminer's Industry ReportWishpond
We've analyzed and synthesized SME's industry report to give you the 12 key takeaways you need to know.
We give you the facts and stats (complete with bar-graphs and pie charts) and then the concrete takeaway that ensures you understand what you're seeing and can apply it for yourself.
Check it out! And a huge thanks to SME for their comprehensive study!
To truly influence business decisions, you
need to understand where the industry is
going. This 5th annual report uncovers
worldwide recruiting trends that will move
your organization forward, and help position
you as a strategic business partner.
Truly influence business decisions with emerging recruiting trends worldwide.
Learn top recruiting priorities, upcoming challenges and opportunities ahead in LinkedIn’s annual report.
To truly influence business decisions, you need to understand where the industry is going. This 5th annual report uncovers worldwide recruiting trends that will move your organization forward, and help position you as a strategic business partner.
What’s more interesting is a renewed emphasis on relationships, which is a critical factor in talent acquisition. Learn how this theme ties into the top priorities, upcoming challenges and opportunities ahead in 2016 and beyond.
Global recruiting trends 2016 by LinkedIn Pierre Bernard
To truly influence business decisions, you need to understand where the industry is going. This 5th annual report uncovers worldwide recruiting trends that will move your organization forward, and help position you as a strategic business partner.
What’s more interesting is a renewed emphasis on relationships, which is a critical factor in talent acquisition. Learn how this theme ties into the top priorities, upcoming challenges and opportunities ahead in 2016 and beyond.
1. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
1
RECRUITMENT MARKETING
INSIGHTs
The content and social marketing techniques that
are changing the face of recruitment
2. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
2
The role of HR has evolved dramatically since the
start of the 21st century. Creativity, flexibility
and a range of skills traditionally associated
with attracting new customers are now crucial in
attracting and engaging the right candidates.
The rise of content marketing and the continued growth of
social media are changing how today’s companies win the best
talent.
We set out to understand who is utilising these techniques, the
impact they are having now and the role they will play in the
future.
introduction
3. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
3
We have gathered some useful data to help you:
- Secure more budget for recruitment marketing
- Discover what techniques and tools are in use across the
industry and how they can work for you
- Set clear KPIs and measure them effectively
A large percentage of our respondents agree that recruitment
marketing activities:
- Increase brand recognition
- Increase the number and quality of applicants
- Reduce the time and cost per hire
If you are unsure where to start or what to do next, this
report will give you some great ideas about how to proceed.
Why this report is for you
4. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
4
Recruitment marketing has a positive impact on brand recognition, number
and quality of applications as well as reducing time and cost per hire.
IMPACT OF RECRUITMENT MARKETING
What effect has your recent recruitment marketing activity had?
Notsure
None-N/A-we
haven’tdone
anyrecruitment
marketingrecently
Improvedstaff
retention
Increasedbrand
recognition
Reduced
costperhire
Increasedthe
diversityof
applicants
Increasedthe
numberof
applicationsper
vacancy
Increased
thequalityof
applicants
Reducedtimeto
fillpositions
5%
9%
19%
23%
29%
32%
41%
36%
35%
5. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
5
Regardless of company size or sector, HR professionals agree
on the importance of strategy, goals and values.
STRATEGY AND VALUES
Does your company have a well-
defined recruitment strategy
and goals?
Yes
No
7%
93%
Do you have clear company values?
Yes
No
3%
97%
Do you think everyone in the business
you work for knows and understands your
company values?
Yes
No
Not sure
62%
19%
20%
6. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
6
97%have defined company values
but 39% aren’t sure if those values are fully
understood across the business. Making sure
your employees know what the company stands
for and why you’re different is an important step
in any successful recruitment marketing strategy.
7. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
7
HR professionals are using candidate personas to find the right employees.
CANDIDATE PERSONAS
Do you ever create candidate
personas?
Yes
No
46%
54%
How useful do you typically find
candidate personas in helping you
reach ideal candidates?
Extremely useful
Quite useful
4%
60%
36%
Not that useful
If you don’t use candidate personas,
why not?
We don’t know how
We don’t think they’re very helpful
We don’t have time
26%
53%
21%
3%
Other
8. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
8
54%create candidate personas,
and 96% of those find them to be a useful tool.
Effective personas help you to reach the right
people with the right messages at the right
time, attracting the skills your business needs,
achieving the right cultural fit and improving
staff retention.
9. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
9
There are obvious trends in the types of content being used, but HR
professionals are experimenting with different approaches.
types of recruitment content
Careerwebsite/
microsite
63%
Employeeinterviews
/jobprofiles
55%
Joinuspage
44%
Newsletters
42%
Q&As
33%
Careerblogs
32%Guides
29%
Employer
brandvideos
27%
Videojob
advertisements
23%
Jobographics
14%
Slideshares
12%
Podcasts
10%
Which of the following types of recruitment content have you produced?
10. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
10
Career websites, join us pages and employee interviews are popular options.
EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTENT
Please rate the effectiveness of the
following types of recruitment content: N/A
Very ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Neither effective nor ineffective
Somewhat effective
Very effective
Employee
interviews/
jobprofiles
Q&As
Slideshares
Podcasts
Guides
Newsletters
Jobographics
Videojob
advertisements
Employer
brandvideos
Careerblogs
Joinuspage
Career
website/
microsite
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
11. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
11
Social media is widely used for distributing recruitment content,
with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter proving most popular.
DISTRIBUTING CONTENT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
Do you have any career/employer
brand-specific social channels?
Yes
No
62%
38%
Do you ever use social media to
distribute your recruitment content?
Yes - often
Yes - occasionally
20%
42%
25%
Yes - we’ve tried this once or twice
13%
No - never
Which social media platforms do you
use/have you ever used to distribute
your recruitment content?
Facebook73%
LinkedIn67%
Twitter50%
Instagram19%
Snapchat5%
12. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
12
67%
use social channels to
distribute careers content
and more than 77% plan to continue using it in
the future, but only 38% have a dedicated career
or employer brand channel. Might it be time to
introduce specific recruitment social channels?
13. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
13
LinkedIn is deemed most effective for distributing
recruitment content followed by Facebook.
EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT
Please rate the effectiveness of
these social platforms in distributing
your recruitment content:
Snapchat
0%
5%
15%
25%
30%
10%
20%
35%
40%
InstagramFacebook TwitterLinkedIn
N/A
Very ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Neither effective nor ineffective
Somewhat effective
Very effective
14. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
14
HR professionals are experimenting with paid
promotion on social media.
USE OF PAID PROMOTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Have you ever paid to promote recruitment content on any
of your social channels?
Yes
Not yet, but we
plan to try it
4%
Not sure
No, and we don’t
have plans to
31%
44%
21%
Which social platforms have you ever paid to promote
content on?
Facebook
65%
LinkedIn
65%
Twitter
33%
Instagram
24%
Snapchat
12%
15. Recruitment Marketing Insights 2016
15
LinkedIn and Facebook are deemed most effective
for paid promotion of recruitment content.
EFFECTIVENESS OF PAID PROMOTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Please rate the effectiveness
of your paid content on these
social platforms:
SnapchatInstagram
0%
5%
15%
25%
30%
10%
20%
35%
40%
Facebook TwitterLinkedIn
45%
50%
N/A
Very ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Neither effective nor ineffective
Somewhat effective
Very effective
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USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH CANDIDATES
Do you ever use social media to communicate directly with
potential candidates i.e. sending personal messages?
17%
26%
19%
38%
Yes - often
Yes - occasionally
Yes - we’ve tried this once or twice
No - never
Which social media platforms do you use/have you ever used to
communicate directly with potential candidates?
Twitter45%
Facebook79%
Instagram13%
Other1%
80%LinkedIn
Snapchat5%
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Please rate the effectiveness
of these social platforms in
communicating directly with
candidates
N/A
Very ineffective
Somewhat ineffective
Neither effective nor ineffective
Somewhat effective
Very effective
EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR
COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH CANDIDATES
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
LinkedIn TwitterFacebook Instagram Snapchat
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43%
use social media to
communicate directly with
potential candidates.
LinkedIn and Facebook are proving highly
effective for that purpose, with Twitter, Instagram
and Snapchat all proving viable ways to make
direct contact.
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These techniques are here to stay...
THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RECRUITMENT
How successful have you been in finding and attracting
candidates via social media?
Fairlyunsuccessful8%
Idon’tknow,as
we’restruggling
tomeasureit
3%
N/A-we
haven’ttriedit
15%
12%Verysuccessful
Veryunsuccessful3%
Neithersuccessful
norunsuccessful19%
Fairlysuccessful42%
Notsure
Do you plan to continue using social media for recruitment?
Definitelynot2%
Probablynot5%
16%
Maybe37%
Definitely40%
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HR professionals have mixed views about asking
employees to help share recruitment messages.
USE OF EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY
Yes -
sometimes
Yes -
often
No -
but we’re
planning
to start
No -
and we
don’t plan to
Do you ever actively ask your employees to help you share your
recruitment marketing messages or content?
9%
26%
24%
42%
Which recruitment/employee engagement platforms have you
ever used?
Glassdoor
None - N/A - we’ve never used any
31%
32%
20%
Trap!t
4%
Social Chorus
14%
14%
24%
18%
Bullhorn Reach
Circulate.itDynamic Signal
Other
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Industry sectors vary in their approach to involving employees,
with healthcare, IT, retail, finance and engineering leading the way.
EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY BY INDUSTRY SECTOR
Yes - often No - and we don’t plan to
No - but we’re planning to startYes - sometimes
Do you ever actively ask your employees to help you
share your recruitment marketing messages or content?
Accountancy,
bankingandfinance
0%
5%
15%
25%
10%
20%
Business,consulting
andmanagement
Charityand
voluntarywork
Creativeartsanddesign
Energyandutilities
Engineeringand
manufacturing
Environment
andagriculture
Healthcare
Hospitalityand
eventsmanagement
Informationresearch
andanalysis
Informationtechnology
Insuranceand
pensions
Law
Lawenforcement
andsecurity
Leisure,sportandtourism
Marketing,
advertisingandPR
Mediaandinternet
Propertyand
construction
Publicservicesand
administration
Retail
Sales
Scienceand
pharmaceuticals
Teachingandeducation
Transportandlogistics
Othersector
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HR professionals agree that measurement is important –
but it can be challenging to get the right data
MEASURING RECRUITMENT MARKETING
Do you ever measure the success of your recruitment activity?
Yes
No
11%
88%
N/A
1%
Qualityofapplicants
Lengthoftimetofillpositions
Numberofapplications
pervacancy
Staffretention/churn
Diversityofapplicants
If you do measure the success of your
recruitment activity, what do you measure?
63%
Costperhire
Traffictoyourcareer
site/joinuspage
Engagementwith
recruitmentcontent*
Bouncerateonyourcareer
site/joinuspage
63%
57%
52%
46%
43%
27%
26%
18%
*shares,likes,retweets,etc.
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HR professionals agree on the
importance of measurement.
MEASURING RECRUITMENT MARKETING
How do you typically measure the success of your recruitment
content?
Web traffic / Google Analytics
Content tagging system / tracking system
18%
32%
Social media listening tools
47%
3%
Other
It’s difficult to
get accurate
measurements
We don’t
know what to
measure
It takes too
much time
We don’t
have the right
technology
We’re not
interested in
measurement
If you don’t measure the success of your recruitment activity,
why not?
50%
41%
27%
14%
5%
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88%
are measuring success.
Of these, 47% rely on Google Analytics, 32%
use sophisticated content tagging and tracking
systems and a further 18% make use of social
media listening tools. If you are not measuring
your recruitment marketing activity, this should
be the year to start.
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This research was undertaken by HR managers
in a range of companies across the UK.
ABOUT THIS RESEARCH
1%
8%
23%
24%
16%
28%
10-51
50-249
1-9
450-999
250-499
1000+
Number of employees in company
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Sector breakdown
ABOUT THIS RESEARCH
11%
11%
10%
12%
8%
8%
7%
4%
3%
2%
4%
3%
4%
4%
1%
1%
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
2%
3% 1%1%1%
Charity and voluntary work
Energy and utilities
Environment and agriculture
Hospitality and events management
Information technology
Law
Leisure, sport and tourism
Media and internet
Accountancy, banking and finance
Retail
Science and pharmaceuticals
Transport and logistics
Business, consulting and management
Creative arts and design
Engineering and manufacturing
Healthcare
Information research and analysis
Public services and administration
Law enforcement and security
Marketing, advertising and PR
Property and construction
Recruitment and HR
Sales
Teaching and education
Other sector
Insurance and pensions
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our last word
Marketing and employer brand matter
Our respondents report that recruitment
marketing techniques help them improve
everything from the volume (40%) and diversity
(31%) of candidates to their brand recognition
(23%) and employee retention (18%).
Taking this approach also makes it easier for
your ideal candidates to find and recognise
your company as the place they’d like to work.
It’s worth putting in time, effort and budget to
master these techniques and make them even
more effective in your business.
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Our research was produced in
collaboration with HR transformation
consultancy Veran Performance
The research was conducted by OnePoll among
200 HR managers in a range of companies
across the UK.
If you have further questions about this study,
contact us at info@hellosoutherly.com.
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