Lori Russo, Head of Global Talent Acquisition and Employer Brand, and Stacy Zapar, Social Recruiting & Employer Brand Strategist, share the employer branding story of TripAdvisor at the Greenhouse Recruiting Optimization Summit.
4. TripAdvisor: A Strong Consumer Brand
*Source: Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, CustomerGauge.com, Hootsuite’s Love List
Top 10 in Hootsuite’s Love List (measures the reaction to
450 of the world’s top brands across the social web);
#1 in Travel & Hospitality industry
2M+ Twitter followers
1.8M+ Facebook likes
80K LinkedIn followers
57K Instagram followers
Top Rated in our Industry (Net Promoter Score)
6. TripAdvisor: The World’s Largest Travel Site
*Source: Google Analytics, worldwide data, average monthly views Q3 2014—does not include traffic to daodao.com / TripAdvisor internal data
45 Domains in 28 languages
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315Million
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140,000
destinations
60m
Members
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A New Era for our Talent Acquisition Team
• Lori Russo named Head of Global TA – March 2013
• 25 recruiters around the globe – Boston, Las Vegas, London, Japan,
Singapore
• Need for a new ATS; implementing Greenhouse
• Need to diversify and supplement the team
• Need for recruiter / hiring manager training
• No real hiring culture (global approach to who and how we hire)
• No real social recruiting strategy
• Lack of name recognition or real employer brand presence
(People in our own back yard didn’t even know we were headquartered in
Boston!)
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Our Employer Brand Goal
WE NEEDED TO
TELL OUR
STORY...
a relevant, transparent
story of what it’s like to
work at TripAdvisor…
a peek through the blinds.
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Our EB Strategy Aligns with our Business Model
TripAdvisor Review-Writing Advice:
“Write a review which would genuinely help someone else
make up their mind whether they would want to go or not.”
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Step 1: Take Inventory (dig for GREAT content)
NEWS ARTICLESDEPARTMENT / EMPLOYEE BLOGS
OFFICE ENVIRONMENT / CUBE LIFE
COMPANY EVENTSCOMPANY CULTURE / DAY IN THE LIFE
INTERNAL INSIGHTS
EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHTS
UNIQUE PERKS & BENEFITS
CANDID PHOTOS / IPHONE VIDEOS
CAREER STRATEGIES
HUMOR / MEMES
RELEVANT QUOTES
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Step 10: Weekly Content Calendar Schedule
Content
curation,
schedule
posts for
the week
Engage,
follow
back
Engage Engage,
follow
back
Engage Engage,
#FF
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
30 MIN 15 MIN 15 MIN 15 MIN 15 MIN 15 MIN
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All Coming Together to Talk about TripAdvisor!
“The difference between
an audience and a
community is which way
the chairs are facing.”
- Chris Brogan
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Our Facebook Group is a Real Talent Community!
“The difference between
an audience and a
community is which way
the chairs are facing.”
- Chris Brogan
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The Reach and Influence are Growing Daily
o Social influence is up 80% overall since starting social training ten
weeks ago.
o Average Klout score on the team is now 44, up from 24 ten weeks
ago.
o Average # of Twitter followers is up 414% (up to 787 from 153
followers just ten weeks ago).
o @GoTripAdvisor Klout score is up 6 points to 59 in the three
weeks post launch.
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Before you can articulate and evangelize your employer brand, you need to fully understand it. (50% of all Recruiters don’t even know their own employer brand. Scary, huh?)
Stacy’s first job as EB Strategist was to understand the company’s culture. (If your company already has an EVP, this job becomes infinitely easier. We didn’t have that yet so it took a little more manual research.)
This first step involved a lot of research, interviews with employees, a need to understand the company culture intimately, etc. What are our strengths? What are our areas of opportunity? Who are our people? What do we value? Ask the tough questions. Better to uncover that information now than find out later the hard way.
Take inventory to discover resources are available internally and externally that help paint that picture and answer those questions.
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Before you can articulate and evangelize your employer brand, you need to fully understand it. (50% of all Recruiters don’t even know their own employer brand. Scary, huh?)
Stacy’s first job as EB Strategist was to understand the company’s culture. (If your company already has an EVP, this job becomes infinitely easier. We didn’t have that yet so it took a little more manual research.)
This first step involved a lot of research, interviews with employees, a need to understand the company culture intimately, etc. What are our strengths? What are our areas of opportunity? Who are our people? What do we value? Ask the tough questions. Better to uncover that information now than find out later the hard way.
Take inventory to discover resources are available internally and externally that help paint that picture and answer those questions.
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Before you can articulate and evangelize your employer brand, you need to fully understand it. (50% of all Recruiters don’t even know their own employer brand. Scary, huh?)
Stacy’s first job as EB Strategist was to understand the company’s culture. (If your company already has an EVP, this job becomes infinitely easier. We didn’t have that yet so it took a little more manual research.)
This first step involved a lot of research, interviews with employees, a need to understand the company culture intimately, etc. What are our strengths? What are our areas of opportunity? Who are our people? What do we value? Ask the tough questions. Better to uncover that information now than find out later the hard way.
Take inventory to discover resources are available internally and externally that help paint that picture and answer those questions.
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Instead of @TripAdvisorJobs or @LifeAtTripAdvisor (which wouldn’t have fit anyway! lol), we decided to go for something fresh and new… @GoTripAdvisor!
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To further reinforce the new brand, we kept things simple and also went with #GoTripAdvisor as our hashtag.
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What are we gonna talk about? What are our hiring challenges? What do people NOT know about us? Who is our target audience and what will resonate with them?
For us, we established four pillars of content:
Life at Trip
Work It, Work It
Wanderlust (Love of Travel)
Where We Are
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What once looked like THIS……. Now looks like THIS!
It’s all about our people, our offices, our events, our culture. THIS is what great employer brand content looks like. Not just autotweeted job postings.
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Never thought I’d say this, but… Our FB Group is a real talent community. Employees are talking to candidates, fans are talking to other fans, everyone’s sharing their love of TripAdvisor, travel, our people, our culture. It’s a beautiful thing!
820 members so far. In less than a month! And 142 of those members are current employees of TripAdvisor… from all departments, all levels, all around the world!
Great for employer branding but also great for employee morale and employee engagement!
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Focus on getting candidates, fans and even employees to get to know key players on each team (executive, other leaders, hands-on contributors, etc.)