This document summarizes a webinar about recruitment marketing. The webinar discussed how recruitment marketing can help attract top candidates by engaging candidates across the entire recruitment lifecycle through tactics like social media, content marketing, and events. It also shared how best-in-class companies collaborate with their marketing teams to build strong employer brands, use recruitment marketing technologies to automate processes and gain efficiencies, and take a proactive approach to hiring by building a talent pipeline. The webinar provided examples of how specific companies leverage recruitment marketing strategies.
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Sponsored By:
Recruitment Marketing: Engage
Candidates and Win Talent
August 2016
Howard Adamsky, Senior Analyst, Human Capital Management
Aberdeen Group
Lori Sylvia, Chief Marketing Officer
SmashFly
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What Is Recruitment Marketing?
Recruitment marketing is every tactic that a talent acquisition team uses to
find, attract, engage, and nurture leads to convert them into more qualified
applicants to fill jobs now and build a pipeline for the future:
• Employee Referrals
• Talent Networks
• Job Marketing
• Employer Branding
• Recruiting Events
• Recruiting Analytics
• CRM
• Sourcing
• Content Marketing
• Email Nurturing
• Social Recruiting
• Mobile recruiting
• Career Site
• SEO
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Benefits of Recruitment Marketing
Employee engagement rate
Year-over-year increase in annual
revenue per full-time employee
Year-over-year increase in
customer satisfaction rate
69%
9.2%
8.9%
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TODAY’S AGENDA:
• How recruitment marketing helps attract top candidates
• How to use social media to engage candidates
• Best-in-Class steps to amplify employer branding
through marketing activities
• Surprising data on business outcomes between users
and non-users of recruitment marketing
• Q&A
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Key Takeaways
• Collaborate (and learn) from marketing to build an employer
brand that entices skilled candidates
• Enrich traditional talent acquisition methods through
recruitment marketing; use technology to automate
• Master use of social media to amplify your employer brand
• Become more proactive in hiring; build a talent pipeline
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Recruiting + Recruitment Marketing = Modern Recruiting
Awareness
Hire
Consideration
Interest
Application
Select
Recruitment
Marketing
Recruiting
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Understanding What It Takes To Achieve Success
What you need to do to become Best-in-Class:
Processes you should have in place
Critical metrics
Organizational changes you might want to
make
Data / knowledge management
considerations
Technologies you should evaluate
Best-in-Class
Industry Average
Laggard
P A C E
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Recruitment Marketing Is the Answer for HR Executives’
Challenges
Top Strategies (n= 216) Best-in-Class All Others
Proactively build & expand the candidate
pipeline regardless of current hiring needs
68% 44%
Improve the candidate experience 32% 27%
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Best-in-Class All Others
Who Are the Best-in-Class?
Percentage of employees receiving a
rating of ‘exceeds expectations’ on
last performance review
9.2% -1.0%
Year-over-year improvement (decrease) in
average search-to-hire rate 7.2% -3.9%
Year-over-year improvement in
revenue per full-time equivalent 6.8% -2.6%
Best-in-Class All Others
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Step 1: Involve
Marketing to
Build Your
Employer Brand
Step 2: Enrich
Talent
Acquisition
Through
Recruitment
Marketing
Step 3: Master
Use of Social
Media
Step 4: Build a
Talent Pipeline
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Companies are incurring unnecessary
costs when recruiting.
On average, a business that hires 400
employees annually incurs $1.09 million
each year.
$2,714
Average cost per hire for
U.S. companies
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Involve Marketing in Employer Branding
67% 66%
40%
50%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Involve themarketing
department in employment
branding & advertisingtactics
Usesocial media portals to
sourcecandidates
Percent of respondents, n=216
Best-in-Class
All Others
Source: Aberdeen Group, July 2016
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Step 1: Involve
Marketing to
Build Your
Employer Brand
Step 2: Enrich
Talent
Acquisition
Through
Recruitment
Marketing
Step 3: Master
Use of Social
Media
Step 4: Build a
Talent Pipeline
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Traditional Talent Acquisition Methods Are No Longer Effective
Sources from which companies indicate
seeing minimal results (n= 216)
Best-in-Class All Others
Campus recruiting 70% 30%
Job boards
62% 38%
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is a technology used to automate, manage, and
measure everything done in recruitment
marketing. It is not an applicant tracking system
(ATS), but it plugs into one. The platform is one
single resource that covers everything from
campus recruiting, career portals, employee
referrals, branding, and more. It is used to attract
leads to apply.
Recruitment marketing platform
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Use Technology to Gain Efficiencies in Your Recruitment
Marketing Programs
Awareness
Interest
ConsiderationApplication
Hire
Referral
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Step 1: Involve
Marketing to
Build Your
Employer Brand
Step 2: Enrich
Talent
Acquisition
Through
Recruitment
Marketing
Step 3: Master
Use of Social
Media
Step 4: Build a
Talent Pipeline
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Step 1: Involve
Marketing to
Build Your
Employer Brand
Step 2: Enrich
Talent
Acquisition
Through
Recruitment
Marketing
Step 3: Master
Use of Social
Media
Step 4: Build a
Talent Pipeline
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The majority of businesses wait for
an opening to fill, instead of
proactively building a talent bench
through recruitment marketing.
60%
of companies are
using a reactive
approach in their
hiring programs
Become More Proactive in Talent Acquisition
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Build a Talent Bench Through Recruitment Marketing
68%
60%
44% 46%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Proactively build and expand the
candidatepipelineregardlessof
current hiringneeds
Invest in new technologiesto
makerecruitment more
engaging for candidates
Percent of respondents, n=216
Best-in-Class
All Others
Source: Aberdeen Group, July 2016