1. Branding – Creating a strong brand to attract top talent
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Creating Content | Building Community | Social Engagement Strategy

2. What is ‘Employer Brand’?
“The term ‘employer branding’ describes how an organisation markets what it has to offer to potential and existing employees. Marketers have developed techniques to help attract customers, communicate with them effectively and maintain their loyalty to a consumer brand. Employer branding involves applying a similar approach to people management” CIPD 2012

3. Branding is about Differentiation
“Branding is about differentiation but, unfortunately, your new employer branding strategy and that sexy new employee value proposition you came up with (‘Empowering Excellence with Integrity and Innovation’) is exactly the same as everyone else’s”
Marketing Week July 2013

4. What Makes a Great Place to Work?
A company they feel good about
Interesting work to challenge and motivate
Encouragement to get better, development opportunities
Feeling of importance, self-esteem
Compensation and reward, being valued

5. It’s about Culture, not Values
Whose values were these?
Communication – We have an obligation to communicate.
Respect – We treat others as we would like to be treated.
Integrity – We work with customers and prospects openly, honestly, and sincerely.
Excellence– We are satisfied with nothing less than the very best in everything we do

6. Values Don’t Always Reflect Behaviours

7. Understand Your Culture

9. What’s Most Important for Workplace Happiness?
Top Five
Working with people I get on with
Feeling valued
Good money
Good hours, benefits and rewards (wellbeing)
Working for a boss I get on well with
(Source Jobsite survey 2011)

10. What Words Do We Use to Attract Talent For Recruitment?
Driven
Passionate
Money motivated
Resilient
Thrive on competition and challenge
Tenacious
Autonomous
Target driven

11. ‘Top talent does not “apply” to work FOR your company; top talent “expresses interest” to work WITH your company’ Smart Recruiters (USA) 2013

12. How Can You Tell Top Talent About Your Employee Experience?

13. Satisfied and engaged employees are your greatest brand advocates, and their referrals should be your most successful source of hire. Let them share their stories of what it’s like to work with you.

14. Who Do We Trust the Most?

15. Employees are Talking About You Already!

16. Share to Personal networks
How to Participate?
Photos
Videos
Blog
Tell a Story
Share to Personal networks

17. For Employees, it’s All About the Social Conversation
Encourage
Enable
Empower
Facilitate
Share
If you make someone use social networking channels they’ll do it badly

20. What Does Your Hiring Process Say About The Employee Experience
What Does Your Hiring Process Say About The Employee Experience? Will it Match Expectations?

21. Your Content Should be Unique and Authentic
Your Content Should be Unique and Authentic. Don’t Chase Easy Likes and Shares – They Won’t Impress Top Talent!

22. Finally, Does Your Website Impress...

23. ...What Does it Say About Your Priorities?

24. Any Questions? @MervynDinnen http://www.linkedin.com/in/mervyndinnen