Presentation on how recruiters can think like marketers. Based on Lou Adler's session at Talent Connect 2012 in Las Vegas; voted one of the top three breakouts of the entire conference.
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Sales & Marketing for Recruiting Professionals | Talent Connect 2012
1. Recruitment Marketing
Attracting the High Achievers
Lou Adler
CEO – The Adler Group,Author
Hire With Your Head and
The Essential Guide for Hiring and
Getting Hired
@LouA
The best of
3. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Job-hunting Status Fully-employed
Extraordinary
Career Move
Great
Career
Move
Very Good
Career Move
Good Career
Move
Lateral
Transfer
LinkedIn Adler Group Survey 2011 – 4,500 Members
20% Postings
Visible & Compelling
20% Targeted Email
Targeted/MailMerge
60% Networking
VTC – PERP
5. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Thinking Backwards
BeforeDay 1
Skills,Experience,
HAVING, Academics,
Competencies
Day1
Title, Company,
Location,$$,
Responsibilities
Advertise &
PhoneScreen
Beyond Year 1
Opportunity,Long-
term Impact,
Long-term $$ %
Year 1
DOING, Work,
Impact,Learning,
Team,Total $$
Moment
1
Candidate
Opt-in Screen
Interview,
Assess, Offer
Acceptance
Criteria
You can’t use a talent surplus process in a talent scarcity situation!
HAVE GET BECOMEDO
6. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Understand Your Ideal Candidate
Positive Motivators
Negative Motivators
IntrinsicExtrinsic
Career Maximization
Learn– Do – Become
Helping others
Team– Hiring Manager
Company or Mission
Recruitment
Marketing &
Advertising
Eliminate the
Negatives
and Maximize
the Positives
Tip: Close on
Positive
Internals
Slow growth
Work mix not satisfying
Not part of team
Missionnot important
Cultural misfit
Lowsalary
Bad boss
Not appreciated
Deterioratingbusiness
Economic need
CompensationMax
Short-termRewards
Contests, Bonus
Big Title - Big Brand
Ego need
Avoid the vicious cycle of underperformance, low morale and turnover.
7. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Understand Your Ideal Candidate
Positive Motivators
Negative Motivators
IntrinsicExtrinsic
Career Maximization
Learn– Do – Become
Helping others
Team– Hiring Manager
Company or Mission
Recruitment
Marketing &
Advertising
Eliminate the
Negatives
and Maximize
the Positives
Tip: Close on
Positive
Internals
Slow growth
Work mix not satisfying
Not part of team
Missionnot important
Cultural misfit
Lowsalary
Bad boss
Not appreciated
Deterioratingbusiness
Economic need
CompensationMax
Short-termRewards
Contests, Bonus
Big Title - Big Brand
Ego need
GETTING
DOING &
BECOMING
Avoid the vicious cycle of underperformance, low morale and turnover.
9. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Turn Jobs into Careers
Need both … to find & hire the best
What’s the EVP?
Why would a top, fully-
employed person take
this position?
Impact, Growth, Company
Long term component
of a career move – the
becoming!
10. TALENT CONNECT 2012
How to Write an Email or Ad
Lead with EVP DOING Having
Beyond Year 1
Year 1
Past
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The Importance of Messaging
What’s the EVP?
Capture intrinsic
motivator
Do, Learn,
Become
Describe impact
Make it viral
Attention-
getting
Take over the
Rebuilding of Philly’s
Inner City
0-60 MPH
in
12 Years!
13. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Be Compelling to Attract Top-third
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14. TALENT CONNECT 2012
Texting and Tweets
1st build a virtual talent pool
Connect on LinkedIn
When texting: Compliment 1st!
Be vague, but bigger title
Sell short chat
Send link to posting
Send link to your open calendar –
e.g., TimeTrader.com
Make sure LIP shows you as SWK!
Just found
your LI Profile
– very
impressive.
RU open to
chat about sr.
marketing
exec spot?
19. TALENT CONNECT 2012
4 LinkedIn tools to help you recruit like a
marketer, so that you…
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1. Know your audience
2. Increase your relevance and reach
3. Go where your audience is
20. TALENT CONNECT 2012
1. Know your audience with our free Talent Pool
reports
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Industries covered:
- Software engineer*
- Technical sales*
- Procurement & supply chain
people
- Marketing*
- Healthcare
- Financial services*
- Drilling and petroleum
*US and European versions
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2. Increase your relevance and reach with
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2. Increase your relevance and reach with
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ACME systems
Sr Software Engineer
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3. Go where your audience is, through LinkedIn
Mobile…
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23% of unique LinkedIn
visitors come via mobile
apps
All LinkedIn Jobs now
distributed to relevant
members in ‘recent
updates’ stream
Members targeted based
on profile information
Included with all LinkedIn
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3. Go where your audience is, through LinkedIn
Mobile and ‘Picture Yourself’ Ads
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# 1 activity on LinkedIn = Looking at your
connections’ profiles
Erica Robertson
Senior Java Developer
ACME systems
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