employer branding for sme's
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Are you too asking yourself: Why is employer branding necessary for my small organisation? Where do you start? How do I create a strong employer branding message? Learn about why you should care, how to craft your message and how you can showcase your employer brand to 300million+ LinkedIn members.TRANSCRIPT
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Presented by:
Dana Fengler Snr SMB Account Executive
LinkedIn | Internet | Dublin T: +353-1-2423238 | [email protected]
Talent Solutions
Live Webinar: Employer Branding for SMEs Presented on 24 June 2014
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- What employer branding is and why you must care - How employer brand can be measured - Results you can expect from a strong brand - How you can showcase your employer brand to 300million+ LinkedIn members Plus: additional starter tips for companies who are new to employer branding.
What we will cover
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1. Why should I work with you?
Stand out from the crowd
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Opportunity to be more than an employee, to be a partner.
Your story could begin here
A Place to Show Your Ingenuity Every Day
Do cool things that matter.
Help Us Save Lives
Commercial and Employer Brand can (and should!) be very different:
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…but we’re only small…WHY is branding so important for SME’s?
Competing with bigger companies for talent
“Talent War”- shortage of talent in niche industries
Increased hiring need Lack of responses (many viewers, not many applicants)
Quantity over quality responses
Certain roles are difficult
High Turnover
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First Contact
Research
Response
James Davis Your Dream Candidate
The journey EVERY candidate makes- engage James at the Research stage to elicit a stronger response
• Job/ Employment Ad • InMail • Agency Contact • Common Connection
• Your Website • Your LinkedIn company
page • Google, facebook, twitter • Your employees
• Responds to InMail • Applies to a Job • Follows you on social media • Contacts your employee
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What is our Employer Value Proposition?
You don’t choose to have an Employer Brand- you already have one
What makes you different? Embrace your brand “in all its hideousness and all its glory” (Ed Nathanson, Rapid 7)- you want to appeal to people who are a great cultural fit
Be consistent across all social platforms- don’t confuse your candidates
Be honest- don’t make up things that don’t exist within your organisation. Hiring the wrong person can be very costly!
Centre your message around your candidates- what’s in it for THEM?
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EVP= Employer Value Proposition
Sample Size: 16,832 UK only
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How to communicate your brand
Tell a story Give your employees a voice Make it interactive: Video/ Slideshow Offer more information (benefits, culture, location, transport…)
Make it easy for your audience to find what they need- what matters to them? Check out these companies’ great employer branding messages on LinkedIn:
Wooga
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Reach
Engagement
Reach = Your Talent Brand Index
Engagement
You can’t manage what you can’t measure Measuring your Employment Brand on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Talent Brand Index
Learn more here:
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IT company, less than 25 employees
You can’t manage what you can’t measure
Visible Employer Branding Results in the UK: average 3x more viewed jobs, up to 600% more job responses, double the InMail response rate (avg.~20% > ~40%) and average 350% more followers
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Results from using Employer Branding:
Carol White, WSP UK “We’ve gone from 0% to 70% direct sourcing, and saved approximately £200.000,-”
Catherine Schlieben, ITV “The results were extraordinary. After year one, our cost per hire was down to £1200,- from £8500,-.”
Susan Hollingshead, Sungevity “External recruitment dropped from 60% to 6%, Reduced time to hire from months to 3-6 weeks”
Ed Nathanson, Rapid7 Achieved more than 54% Time to Hire reduction 493% LinkedIn follower growth
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Employer Branding on LinkedIn
YOU’LL LOVE WORKING WITH US!
More About Us
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For Novices: Where to start?
• Know your current employer brand perception: Survey your employees, request a LinkedIn Talent Brand Index report • What makes you different? What do you stand for? • Vanilla is still a favourite flavour: many people dream of a 9-5 job with set tasks-
turn this into your advantage if it applies to you • Be truthful- ensure you attract the right type of person
• Keep your message unified on different channels
Dana Fengler Snr SMB Account Executive
LinkedIn | Internet | Dublin T: +353-1-2423238 | [email protected]