4. Why We Brought You Here Today
Identify and explore the intersection between key
Marketing principles & Talent Brand
Network with your peers and like-minded
professionals in the Bay area
#intalent
5. Today’s Agenda
8:30-9:00 – Breakfast
9:00-9:30 – Keynote
9:30-10:15 – Client panel
10:15-10:45 – Breakout sessions at table
10:45-11:00 – Share out and closing
#intalent
8. LinkedInTalentBrandIndex
Lippincott Customer BrandView Index
36%
28%-6%
10%
HighLow
HighLow
Cumulative Growth in Shareholder Value over 5 years:
Source: The Secret Sauce of Top Companies, Marshall & Rosenberg, 2013
A Strong Brand (Consumer + Talent) is Critical
to Your Company’s Performance
9. The top of the funnel isn't about you, it’s about
prospects and earning their attention
Marketing Funnel Talent Acquisition Funnel
Future
Customers
Future
hires
11. Source: 2014 LinkedIn Exit Survey, n=1,675 US Voluntary Preventable Departures
of professionals start considering switching jobs
at least 5 months before leaving
12. Step 1: Define Your Talent Personas
Step 3: Drive Engagement
Step 4: Measure ROI
Step 2: Generate Awareness
4 Marketing Steps of Talent Acquisition
14. Audience segmentation
What are the characteristics of the talent your organization needs?
Demographics
Who are they?
Years of experience
Seniority
Industry
Skills
Function
Degree type
Psychographics
What are their values and attitudes?
Work/life balance
Competitive pay
Challenging Work
Good benefits
Inspirational Leaders
Behaviors
How do they interact with
companies?
LinkedIn
Facebook
Job Boards
Career Fairs
Employee connections
Geography
Where are they?
Actual geographic location
Cultural nuances
Currently employed
Undergrad
Grad school
Target
Candidates
15. Example audience segmentation
Demographics
Years of experience: 5-15
Digital Media or Advertising background
Marketing or Consulting function
College degree, grad degree a plus
Psychographics
Strive for innovation
Hyper-growth work environment
Collaborative teamwork
Good pay and benefits
Independent thinkers
Behaviors
LinkedIn
Twitter
Industry events
Employee connections
Open to new opportunities
Geography
London, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco
Currently employed
Talent
Brand
Consultants
18. Assets both TA & Marketing can leverage to generate awareness
Worker Smarter, Not Harder
Leadership Buy-In
Employees
Followers
19. Source: 2015 PWC 2015 Annual Global CEO Survey.
of professionals of C
of CEOs reported being concerned about
the availability of key skills
20. Source: 2015 HBR.org - http://universumglobal.com/2020outlook/
of CEOs surveyed said this responsibility lies with them
(40% of marketing leaders agreed)
Many Leaders Now Place Primary
Responsibility for the Employer Brand
with the CEO or Marketing
21. Employee
Engagement
Highly engaged
employees are brand
ambassadors
Key drivers of employee
engagement:
Senior Leadership
Managing
Performance
Career
Development
Recognition
Case Study - HCA
Over 25,000 department
managers received
reports and insights
More than 10,000 action
plans were created online
Increases in employee
engagement have
resulted in improved
patient satisfaction,
reduced turnover and
improved financial
performance
Leadership Buy-In is Key to
Activating Employees
23. Your followers are important to your brand
Members are 61% more
likely to share
information61%
79% of members are
interested
in job opportunities79%
95% Followers are 95%
more likely to respond
to an InMail
Members are 50% more
likely to purchase a
product / service50%
New hires that followed YOU
before being hired
30%
5,412 followers
26. Talent Prioritization Matrix:
“How Critical?” and “How Likely?”
InDemand
Talent
What talent is
business
critical?
Temperature
How likely is candidate to
engage with us?
Low
High
High
27. Talent Prioritization Matrix
InDemand
Talent
What talent is
business
critical?
Temperature
How likely is candidate to
engage with us?
Low
High
High
Nurture
Outreach
Build
Awareness
“Red Carpet”
1: Many
1: Many 1: Many
1:1
28. Talent Prioritization Matrix: Example
Temperature
How likely is candidate to
engage with us?
Low
High
High
Nurture
“Red Carpet”Outreach
Build
Awareness
1:11: Many
1: Many 1: Many
Brand Consultant
5-10 yr experience
LinkedIn, Facebook
San Francisco, Chicago
Healthcare
10-12 yr experience
Startup or Mgmt Track
Dubai, New York
Accountant
1-5 yr experience
Training Program
Jamaica, Ontario
Project Manager
1-5 yr experience
Client company
Chennai, Philippines
InDemand
Talent
What talent is
business
critical?
30. Key Talent Pools
What Success Looks Like
1 Hire
Metrics LinkedIn
Will Track
Ad Impressions
Click-thru rates
Metrics Your
Company
Could Track
Company website traffic,
LI referral traffic
# of Career Page Visitors
Size & Composition of
Follower Base
Content Reach, Shares,
& Engagement Rates
# of inbound inquiries
Content amplification on
other social networks
PR / media engagement
# of job views
InMail response rates
Talent Brand Index
INpacted hires
# of apply clicks
Job view-to-apply ratio
Quality of applicant
Time-to-fill
Time spent on InMails
Quality of InMail
responses
31. Back of the Napkin Calculations
33,300
Aware of your employer
brand
666
Visit your Career Page
200
View one of your jobs
20
Apply for a position
1
Hire
32. Step 1: Define Your Talent Personas
Step 3: Drive Engagement
Step 4: Measure ROI
Step 2: Generate Awareness
4 Marketing Steps of Talent Acquisition
#intalent
33. Client Panel
Marta Riggins
Director, Talent Brand & Events, Pandora
Andrew Carges
VP, Global Talent Acquisition, GoDaddy
#intalent
Brian Harmsen
Director, Global Talent Acquisition, New Relic
34. Wrap Up – Today’s Objectives
Identify and explore the intersection between
key Marketing principles & Talent Brand
Network with your peers and like-minded
professionals in the Bay area
Please help us improve!
#intalent
Taking it a step further – a strong Talent Brand is also critical for reasons you may not have thought of. By aligning recruiting and marketing and by engaging your audiences with a consistent brand message across both your Talent AND consumer brands, you can yield even greater rewards for your company as a whole.
2013 research from LinkedIn and Lippincott (Brand Strategy firm in NY, part of Marsh & McLennan Companies) showed that companies who had strong talent AND consumer brands experienced a 36% increase in stock price over a 5 year period. Perhaps more compelling, companies with weaker talent and consumer brands actually suffered a DECREASE of 6% in stock price over that same period.
Now how’s that for talent brand ROI?
GE video example: http://talent.linkedin.com/blog/index.php/2014/03/ge-glitzes-up-employer-branding-with-this-beautiful-story?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LinkedInRecruitingBlog+%28LinkedIn+Talent+Blog%29
An audience segmentation exercise can help you get a good picture of what your ideal candidates look like beyond the normal required criteria for a search. For hiring segment you have, you should assess your target candidates on four key aspects: demographics, psychographics, behaviors, and geography.
Demographics: This one is the easiest, it’s basic criteria like years of experience, function, industry, and more.
Psychographics are bit harder as they are the less tangible aspects of your talent pool. Psychographics means assessing what your target talent values and what their attitudes are about work, careers, employers… Do they want good work/life balance, an awesome health insurance plan, inspirational leaders? Psychographics are more about the emotional connection you need to create with candidates. What does it take for them to feel fulfilled at work?
Behavior, as it relates to talent brand, is about people how people interact with your company and how they might interact with your jobs. Whether it’s LinkedIn, connections to employees, or career fairs, every potential candidate will have a unique path to getting to your company. Behavior also applies to how passive or active candidates may be and their job search behavior.
Geography: While actual geographic location does apply here, there are other non-traditional ways of looking at “geography” when it comes to talent brand. It’s can also be about where your target talent currently works. Are they currently employed, part-time, in school? Lastly, it’s increasingly important in our more globalized economy to think about cultural nuances and how you may need to tweak your messaging and processes for different populations.
Let’s look a simple example of an audience segmentation for Talent Brand Consultant candidates! They typically have about 5-15 years of experience, some sort of marketing or digital media background and at minimum an undergraduate degree. They strive for innovation, enjoy collaborative work, and also want good pay and benefits. Of course they use social media, attend industry events, and while employed, are open to opportunities. And lastly, for our current needs, they live in London, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Source: 2015 PWC 2015 Annual Global CEO Survey.
One of our main findings was that many leaders now place primary responsibility for the employer brand with the CEO or marketing, rather than with recruiters and HR. In fact, 60% of the CEOs we surveyed said this responsibility lies with the CEO (40% of marketing leaders agreed) — which is a strong indication that employer branding is expected to gain greater strategic importance.
Source: http://universumglobal.com/2020outlook/
Speaker – Ken
Our first tip focuses on employee engagement. Highly engaged employees are brand ambassadors, the brand experience they deliver separates high vs. low performing organizations. Organizations need to communicate the brand promise and how it relates to the goals of the organization, how it differentiates them from the competition and how individual teams can contribute to these goals
There are some key drivers of Employee Engagement that I would like to touch on.
In order to be high performing, organizations need to set the direction of what employees should be engaged in and manage this performance. Top talent wants to understand how their individual objectives fit into the overall goals of the organization.
Career development is a consistent key driver of employee engagement. Companies need to communicate a clear career path, prepare employees for the next role and provide lateral growth opportunities for top talent. The key here is the immediate manager engaging and empowering their employees.
Recognition is a ‘basic’ area but extremely important to employee engagement.
The senior leadership team sets the goals and direction of the organization. Top talent wants to work for organizations that have good reputations and are considered ‘best employers’. Senior leaders need to connect employees to the company mission, vision, goals and brand promise. Most importantly, leaders need to instill confidence in the employees that the direction and changes being made in the organization will help the company grow and prosper in the future.
One of our clients, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is the largest healthcare services organization in the United States.
They have done a great job in implementing an engagement program and tying it into the mission, vision, values and employee value proposition. To do this, they had executive support in implementing an engagement program. This support is absolutely necessary for their continued success. We delivered online reports to over 25,000 managers with their strengths and areas of opportunity. With these insights and best practices, the organization entered over 10,000 action plans. While working with HCA, our analysis has shown that increases in employee engagement have resulted in improved patient satisfaction, reduced turnover and improved financial performance.
Speaker – Ken
In order for highly engaged employees to be converted into brand ambassadors they need some guidance and questions answered by the organization.
First, why is this organization a great place to work?
What is the value proposition for prospective, new and current employees?
Why does this organization exist? What differentiates us from the competition?
What type of talent does this organization need to continue to grow?
Finally, what resources and training is available to help with this effort? What are the policies of the organization in terms of utilizing social media?
This last question leads us directly into a case study that I would like to share with you. A Fortune 500 organization found that almost 40% of its employees feel restricted by the organization’s social media policy and more than half would share company stories given more flexible social media guidelines. After developing an internal social media platform, over 60% of its US based employees engage in intranet social media sites either daily or weekly.
What this case study shows us is that establishing a social media policy that is easy to understand is very important. This study also shows that more than half of the employees are willing to share company stories. Employee engagement programs tie into this directly because we want has many engaged employees on the social media sites as possible, being advocates of the organization and attracting additional top talent. In order to attract the best talent and be successful, employees need answers and guidance on these questions that I have presented to you.
Tabitha is now going to discuss how to encourage employees to share company stories.
Ken will pass control to Tabitha
Speaker – Ken
In order for highly engaged employees to be converted into brand ambassadors they need some guidance and questions answered by the organization.
First, why is this organization a great place to work?
What is the value proposition for prospective, new and current employees?
Why does this organization exist? What differentiates us from the competition?
What type of talent does this organization need to continue to grow?
Finally, what resources and training is available to help with this effort? What are the policies of the organization in terms of utilizing social media?
This last question leads us directly into a case study that I would like to share with you. A Fortune 500 organization found that almost 40% of its employees feel restricted by the organization’s social media policy and more than half would share company stories given more flexible social media guidelines. After developing an internal social media platform, over 60% of its US based employees engage in intranet social media sites either daily or weekly.
What this case study shows us is that establishing a social media policy that is easy to understand is very important. This study also shows that more than half of the employees are willing to share company stories. Employee engagement programs tie into this directly because we want has many engaged employees on the social media sites as possible, being advocates of the organization and attracting additional top talent. In order to attract the best talent and be successful, employees need answers and guidance on these questions that I have presented to you.
Tabitha is now going to discuss how to encourage employees to share company stories.
Ken will pass control to Tabitha
I cannot stress enough how important it is to watch your content closely and make sure your strategy is working. The great thing about content marketing is it is quick to readjust and doesn’t need