Jameel Amini, Head of Digital Strategy at Havas People, presents personalisation in recruitment, providing successful personalisation examples in candidate attraction and onboarding.
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What is Personalisation?
In the digital age, personalisation is the ability to
deliver contextually relevant information, content or
experiences to a targeted individual in real-time
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An individual is exposed to over
3000 pieces of information a day
surveyed said the attraction was
irrelevant and didn’t convert them59%
Source: Inc.com – ‘The Future of Advertising’
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62% shoppers claim they buy more
and/or more often when met with
personalised retail experiences
75% log in to e-commerce websites
that cater for their personal
preferences based on previous
behaviour
Source: ‘Connected Commerce’ survey, DigitasLBi
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70% shoppers admitted
they are more likely to
embrace in-store GPS
and WiFi tracking if they
receive personalised
benefits in return
Source: ‘Connected Commerce’ survey, DigitasLBi
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Candidate
Attraction
Step 1: recognise the person.
Step 2: target and hyper-target.
Step 3: move from ‘push’ to ‘pull’.
Step 1: consider the individual.
Step 2: measure real-time responses.
Step 3: recognise and reward.
Talent
Retention
Actioning Personalisation
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The opportunity of personalisation is to
eventually have a perfectly aligned
workforce
The investment of personalisation is to
find a candidate who is looking for a
career, and not just a job
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The Future of Personalisation
Personalisation will become second nature
Users will expect a single touch point and focus on
experiences
The candidate journey will change
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What excites us is not only what we do today, but
understanding and being pushed by clients to make new
discoveries, to create new conversations
20 second intro:
Havas People are specialists in employer marketing, and my role is to constantly keep an eye on how the digital landscape is changing, and how we can be best positioned to respond to the needs of our clients.
We’ve recognised the need for personalisation, and we believe there’s a significant role it can play in recruitment.
London looks slightly different: imagine a not so far utopian future, where technology and life has advanced.
In ten years, there wont be five days in the office, how has it changed? Our devices give us access from everywhere, so why are we tied to our desks?
Astrid wakes up for work, but doesn’t leave the house – her desk knows when she’s near and turns on, and delivers communications it knows she needs to know first. Her coffee machine boils water to her preferred temperature and gives her a selection of vitamins knowing it’s a Tuesday. She only works for 2 hours in the morning, because her social life is important, her shopping gets delivered by drone, and then try out the lunch menu that was recommended to her by her watch.
She then comes back, reads her favourite blogs, likes some Instagram photos and virtual conferences her office to let them know she’s been working an hour, and they’re totally happy with that.
She’s also the most productive in her team, and up for promotion quicker than others before her.
In the digital age, personalisation is the ability to deliver contextually relevant content and/or experiences to a targeted individual in real-time
With the earlier example, the Holy Grail becomes to learn and interact with each individual separately – and as tools become available, this will become the new norm.
EXPLAIN CONTENT which is:
Non-Intrusive
‘Human’
Before the digital age as we know it, people were saying….
Cisco said by 2050 there will be over 50 billion connected devices,
Does it work?
Source: Inc.com – ‘The Future of Advertising’, 2005
Source: ‘Connected Commerce’ survey, DigitasLBi
Source: ‘Connected Commerce’ survey, DigitasLBi
Consumer market is transactional
Recruitment is conversational, considered as an investment
Personalisation takes place from candidate attraction through to talent retention, all whilst delivering content and experiences along the way
The Value of Personalisation
For the client to find the best person who satisfies business’s needs, cultures and future, emotionally connected to the role
For the candidate who is chosen beyond their skills, but also for their cultural fit and emotional embodiment of the client’s business needs
Before personalisation can begin, we need to understand what needs the potential employer is looking to satisfy.
We could look at who searches what – google ads for account director in london
Instead, then, they should recognise the needs of who will deliver maximum impact on the role, and also initiate a change in their practices, and through personalisation, they can identify candidate segments for people searching for ‘London’, ‘account director’. ‘jobs’, and target these candidates with display ads, banners, or even data capture through the form of a newsletter sign up.
Before personalisation can begin, we need to understand what needs the potential employer is looking to satisfy.
We could look at who searches what – google ads for window cleaner in london
Logically, a step deeper would be to use social media, creating filters for people who are educated in economics or accounting, and perhaps even show examples of extreme sports – said to give the same adrenaline rush as working in a high pressure environment – and displaying content and sponsored feeds to entice and lure active and even passive job seekers.
FIND A NATURAL AUDIENCE, each time, every time.
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The Havas People approach
We’re continuously studying personalisation, understanding human behaviour and interaction, and how far we can integrate our services into creating conversation and conversion between employer and candidate
We look to understand who natural audiences are, and are they getting the message
USE BEHAVIOURAL DATA FOR BETTER TARGETING
COLLECTING AND REPORTING
PREDICTION AND ACTIONING
CREATING A MORE MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION
The old attitude would be to send out a job spec and ask it to be filled, the new version is to identify the candidate just as easily, and bring them into the role.
Looking to employ a junior level person – and the level of personalisation needed – would be very different to searching and appointing a CEO. For the former, there could be a huge talent pool of candidates, through which we segment and filter, for the latter, the millennial mindset no longer exists and maybe the personalisation is about actions and not technology, face to face dialogue and knowing you understand their needs – technology still plays a role, but not in terms of bringing attention to the candidate.
2 - Understand who the target demographic, the target segment and the context in which you need to hire the candidate, and use the available tools to distinguish who filter content to them
The investment of personalisation is to find a candidate who is looking for a career, and not just a job
The opportunity of personalisation is to eventually have a perfectly aligned workforce – future, culture, skills and business needs
People are people before candidates
At some point, digital as we know it will cease to be based on screen, but identities and personalities available at a single touch point.
Our work and approach will become streamlined, maybe automated, but our efforts will still make each response personal and human.
Candidates will control the journey, and employers will have to speak to candidates on their terms, in their language, on their chosen platform, in their environment
Our work and approach will become streamlined but we push to recognise that before people are people before they are candidates, and that engagement can happen in many forms
What excites us is not only what we do today, but understanding and being pushed by clients to make new discoveries, to create new dialogues.