Talent Development Manager Sarah Mueller describes the untapped element of brand every professional services organization should be taking advantage of: the Talent Brand. Attracting, engaging and retaining top talent is an essential activity for marketers and HR professionals alike, but what really helps a company stand apart from the rest in a highly competitive talent market is a well-defined and unique talent brand.
During her presentation, Sarah broke down the meaning of a talent brand, showed what a successful talent brand in action looks like and described the tools needed to start your own talent brand initiative.
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Agenda
• Importance of this topic within professional services
• Role of Marketing & HR/Recruiting/Talent professionals
• Data – labor market, bottom line: risks & opportunities, significance of
engagement
• Evolution & definition of employer & talent brand
• Power of employee engagement as the foundation for a strong talent
brand
• EVP & CVP
• Key steps to assess & build your talent brand
– Examples of what success looks like
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The Intersection of Marketing &
Recruiting/HR Teams
• The line is blurred between sales & recruiting
• Organizational change intended to improve the employee
experience is being marketed to customers & consumers
– Customers care about the people providing their service
• Brand identity is not just industry reputation, it is about people
and culture
• Companies are using HR as PR to drive the performance of their
business
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Labor Market – Competitive Landscape
• On the last business day of April, the job openings level
reached a new series high of 6.7 million
– The series began in December 2000
• The number of hires was at 5.6 million in April
• Approximately 223,000 jobs were created in May
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf
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Labor Market – Professional Services
• Employment in professional and technical services
continued to trend up in May (+23,000) and has risen by
206,000 over the year.
• Employment in health care rose by 29,000 in May, about
in line with the average monthly gain over the prior 12
months.
• Employment in construction continued on an upward
trend in May (+25,000) and has risen by 286,000 over the
past 12 months.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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Labor Market - Millennials
• More than one-in-three (35%) American labor force participants
are Millennials, making them the largest generation in the
U.S. labor force
– Pew Research Center, US Census Bureau
• Millennials will make up 75% of the workforce within the next
10 years, regardless of industry
– Forbes
• Millennials are more likely to take on work that is meaningful to
them. The so-called “purpose over paycheck” generation
tends to blur work and life together, often checking emails and
remaining “on” during after-work hours
– Inc.com
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Labor Market - Millennials
• Turnover among Millennials costs the American economy
over $30 billion every year
• About 55% of Millennials are not engaged at work
• Over 50% of Millennials see themselves leaving for a new
job in less than two years
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The Bottom Line - Risks
• Cost of turnover ($11 Billion annually – BNA)
• Employers will need to spend the equivalent of 6-9 months
of an employee’s salary in order to find and train his
replacement
• Average turnover rate in the US is at 40%
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The Bottom Line - Opportunities
• Companies with engaged employees outperform those who don’t by
202% and productivity increases by 22%.
• Companies with strong cultures saw a 4x increase in revenue growth.
• Companies with strong employer brands cut their cost per hire by as
much as half and are 3x more likely to make quality hires.
• Building an employer brand and company culture helps companies
increase employee referrals (41%), and have more diverse candidates
(32%)
• Highly engaged workplaces see a 10% increase in customer ratings
and a 20% increase in sales
12. “A highly engaged workforce means the
difference between a company that
outperforms its competitors and one that fails
to grow.”
– Gallup
18. 10% of an organization’s productivity
comes from its top 1% of employees, and
26% of its output can be credited to the
top 5% of its workforce.
19. Top talent (engaged employees) produces
four times as much as the average
(satisfied) employee.
- Personnel Psychology
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Engagement
• Businesses perform as much as 202% higher than competitors
• Business profitability increases by 21%
– Disengaged employees costs businesses $500 billion every year
• Turnover & absenteeism decrease
• Work quality improves and defects drop by about 40%
• When businesses invest in talented managers, they double their
rate of engaged employees, and they achieve about 150%
higher earnings per share
• Customer loyalty improves by as much as 200% or more
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Engagement Profit Chain
• Engagement has more impact on business unit
performance than vice versa (Journal of Occupational and
Organizational Psychology)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2014/01/07/employee-engagement-the-
wonder-drug-for-customer-satisfaction/#50b6fb336d46
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5 Key Steps for Assessing & Building Talent
Brand
1. Establish/define values & culture
2. Identify & audit touchpoints
3. Create a strategic relationship/partnership between
Marketing & Recruitment/HR
4. Evaluate recruitment process
5. Track metrics
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1. Values, Culture & Purpose
• The core of your brand identity
• Your differentiator
• Your purpose or your mission
• Meaningful and fulfilling work & experiences
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2. Touchpoints
• Careers Site / Careers Page
– Easy to navigate & easy to apply
– Keep it current
• Job Boards
– Culture & values
– 52% of candidates come from job boards (Jobvite)
• Blogs, Forums, & Social Channels
• External Networks & Community
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UnitedHealth Group – Job Boards
• Open positions on 7+ of the mainstream job boards
• Mission statement appears in job descriptions & company
profile consistently
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3. Marketing & Recruitment/HR Collaboration
• What are the themes in how your people think, feel, and
what they share about you as an organization?
• Meet with high performers
• Exit interviews
• Create messaging & check for executive buy-in
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4. Recruitment Process
• From the application process to new hire onboarding, all
the way through the entirety of the employee life cycle
• Consistency
– Process itself
– Employee experience
• Enforcement of culture & values
• Train hiring managers & interviewers
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5. Metrics
• Source
• Quality
• Retention – voluntary and involuntary turnover
• Acceptance rate
• Employee referrals
• Giveaway/takeaway ratio
• NPS – clients and employees
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Food for thought…
• Without a strong culture that supports employee
engagement, a strong talent brand cannot exist.
• Marketing: How will you get to know your people as
intimately as HR & Recruiting do, learn about their
motivators, and help them tell their stories?
• Recruitment/HR: What are you doing to enhance the
employee experience so that marketing has a talent brand
to market?