Marketers have focused on the customer experience. It's time to focus on the employer brand. Without people, you don't have a product. Learn why the employer brand is so important and how to let your people and culture tell a real story that goes beyond the job.
4. #INBOUND17
We’re at a marketing event. Let’s talk
recruiting.
Inbound works across the modern org, beyond marketing & sales.
Marketing is to sales as marketing is to recruiting.
@LaneSutton
12. #INBOUND17
• Glassdoor
• Social media
• Referrals & WOM
OUTBOUND I NBOUND
• Job ads
• Job boards
• Staffing agencies
• Cold emails or InMail
@LaneSutton
You contact them They find you
20. #INBOUND17
”People will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made
them feel.”
M A Y A A N G E L O U
^^ that’s brand + experience.
@LaneSutton
21. #INBOUND17
Not just a job, it’s someone’s career.
A career changes someone’s life.
@LaneSutton
22. #INBOUND17
Your candidates = your consumers.
18% of rejected candidates were customers.
6% of applicants switched.
Lost $5.5 million in revenue.
@LaneSutton
V I R G I N M E D I A , H R O S C A S E S T U D Y
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It’s not just the millennials.
It’s called adapting to the changing talent
market.
@LaneSutton
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Future of work
The gig economy
Remote work
Work anytime/anywhere
Artificial intelligence
Coworking spaces, less offices
No meeting or email culture
Less management: Holacracy
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Recruiting Marketing
Hire the best talent
External
Common business
goal
Passive to active
Attract candidates
Convert to hires
Supports the entire
company
PEOPLE
Attract prospects
Convert to leads &
customers
Supports sales
REVENUE
@LaneSutton
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• Quality of candidate
• Source of candidate
• Ultimately time to hire or cost per hire
• Campaign KPIs
• Social engagement
• Careers site traffic
• eNPS
METRI CS
@LaneSutton
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PERSONAS
Engineer Evan
• 1-5 years of experience
• Interests: engineering, UX,
product management, CS Club
• Channels: Medium, dev blogs,
Stack Overflow,
• Companies: SaaS
• Motivations
• Goals
• Skills
@LaneSutton
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• Define your culture, values, & EVP.
• Know your personas.
• Nurture your candidates, keep ‘em warm.
• Align and meet with marketing regularly. Share resources.
• Interview your employees and share their stories. Video
• Go live on the right channels. Start organic & free.
• Share useful and human content.
• Respond to reviews.
• Train your recruiters and hiring teams to build their brand & social.
• Determine KPIs. Test and repeat.
T H E H O W . Y O U R A C T I O N I T E M S
@LaneSutton
52. #INBOUND17
• Employment Branding Forum group on Facebook where we geek out
• #EBchat on Twitter
• HR Open Source, HROS.co
• Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals
• Resonate podcast and “In the Pipeline” from Clinch
• ERE and RecruitingDaily
RESOURCES
@LaneSutton
This is my 5th INBOUND conference. That’s why it’s an honor to be speaking up here with my peers.
Guess my first job? HubSpot! I got to be the voice of HubSpot on social media for a few months.
Why I made the move from marketing into recruiting? Happened by accident. I saw the opportunity in HR to do something different. HR is 10 years behind. I’m a marketer by trade. I just happen to market for recruiting.
Who here works in recruiting? How about marketing? How many of you have an employer brand? Answer is: you all do, just not formalized
Raise your hand if you work in HR or recruiting? you’re all here because you care about hiring exceptional talent.
People before product or process.
What people think of HR. Let’s just say the reputation’s not the best.
YIKES!
HR is 10 years behind. Time we take action and bring the inbound movement to a dated function
Follows the status quo, slow to adopt, hires the same people.
The black hole
No follow up after applying
Job application, job description, interviews, email, phone call
Your candidates are a referral source and may/may not tell friends to apply.
Consider CandE from first touchpoint until the last or throughout their journey.
Measure NPS!
Most forget to retain.
In boston: HubSpot, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, Cimpress, the local pillar companies
In industry/tech: Google, the major social networks, vs. the startup
Who would you choose?Same industry, same job, comparable comp.
Different reasons.
Stiff suit & tie
HR runs in a silo and doesn’t really talk to marketing
Turn passive candidates into active
Recruiting is transactional, especially agencies
HR gets a bad reputation… candidates don’t want to talk to recruiters
Another InMail or spam sourcing email, really? Find #FightSpam FB group for a laugh.
The war for talent is now more competitive than ever
The Big 4 accounting firms
Tech: the social networks and Google
Boston: HubSpot, TripAdvisor, Wayfair, and Cimpress
So what does it come down to?
People & culture
Opportunity
Compensation, perks, and benefits
ENTER the Employer Brand!
My Mom Works at GE
We focus on customer experience. What about candidate experience?
HR treats some candidates like crap. What they don’t realize is that could mean losing a customer or referral.
18% of Virgin Media’s applicants were also customers and 6% who were rejected canceled their service. That cost them $5 million.
Epic fail for United’s consumer brand. Impacts employer brand. People don’t want to work for a bad brand and airlines are tough as it is.
Different for every company
Culture is why they come and why they stay.
HubSpot culture code on SlideShare
A company’s personality, DNA, and feel of the people, work, environment, and fun
Culture is NOT ping pong tables and nap rooms. Those are perks.
Salesforce Ohana and volunteering/philanthropy culture
This is not culture. These are perks. Perks are nice, but doesn’t make someone stay at a company.
What it does is shows you are a fun, casual workplace. Candidates don’t dream of working for a company with ping pong tables. They dream of a company with purpose and making an impact.
Hire employees who embody these values. Lovable brand, service first. Read the book Delivering Happiness by their CEO Tony Hsieh. Tried Holacracy. Parties around the office.
No need to change your strategy to specifically meet millennials.
Earned, owned, and paid media channels
Most forget to retain.
Candidates or leads
Marketing meets with recruiting
Recruiting does its own thing
Who owns brand? Marketing so marketing should care!
You want your customer experience to meet your candidate experience expectations and feel
EB gone bad, rogue
Don’t forget your internal. We focus on external so much. This is the retention piece.
Candidate experience survey
What touchpoints do they have?
More than a testimonial. It’s something they can point to and proudly say “I Built This.” F2F interviews with employees from each department and level from intern up to C-level.
Real stories,
We’ve all gotten the “Hi firstname” mistake of personalizing emails or the blind sales email. Don’t be that recruiter. Read their profile briefly and craft something personal.
54% open rate, 11% click rate, new apps
Goal: AWARENESS and testing a new channel
General company update, news, hot jobs, fun/culture photos, and felt personal
Sent via HubSpot!