Clever Boolean search strategies and LinkedIn Recruiter are great for finding remarkable people. But that’s the easy part. The hard part is writing a persuasive InMail once you’ve identified them, and getting people to respond.
Covered here is how to:
1. Use the employer value proposition to reframe the job as a career opportunity
2. Customize your pitch by capturing the prospect’s intrinsic motivator in your message
3. Craft compelling headlines and stories to increase response rates
Check out this deck to shore up your outreach and InMail skills.
1. Recruiting Master Class
Part 1: Converting Jobs into Careers - Controlling the Intake Session
Part 2: Sourcing Strategy & Out-of-the-box Boolean
Part 3: Effective Candidate Outreach Through InMails & Calls
Lou Adler &
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Hire
Not Hire
The Total
Talent Market
100-200X
Not Apply
Passive
Performance
Qualified
50-100X
Not Apply – Active
Performance
Qualified
20-40X
Not Apply
Active &
Passive
SE Qual
Weed Out Skills, Experience, Assess Boolean & Emails Referrals Skilled Recruiters & Managers
Cost–Many–Lateral Jobs-Transactional Consultative–ROI–Few–Quality-Careers
Recruiting at the Top of the Funnelsm
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20-50X Apply
Not Hire SE Qual
Maximum
Quality of
Hire
Apply
SE Q
To Maximize Quality of Hire
Fit Job to Person – Not Force-fit Person to Job
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InMail strategy - do’s and don’ts
Don’t Do This -
• Be Boring!
• List Any “Must
Haves”
• Push to “Apply”
• Use Hyperbole
• Be Generic, Vague
• Oversell the Brand
• Regurgitate Posting
Do These Things, Instead
• Integrate with Talent Strategy
• Write to Your Audience
• Tell Stories
• Relevant, Compelling Subject
• Intrinsic Motivator – First Line
• Highlight EVP
• Focus: Do, Learn, Become
• Customize & Brand Job
• Connect Job to Bigger Goal
• Dance the 2-Step
• Drive to Engage, Not Apply
• Go Viral
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The importance of messaging
Take over the
Rebuilding of Philly’s
Inner City
What’s the EVP?
Capture intrinsic
motivator
Do, Learn,
Become
Describe impact
Make it viral
Attention getting
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Are you transactional or consultative?
Handling Concerns
Uncover the pain!
No NOs!
Sell 30% discussion
Convert Day 1 to Year 1 &
Beyond decision
You need to know:
oThe job
oThe manager
oIndustry and your company
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Summary – The basics of
reaching candidates through InMail
1. Integrate InMail/Email marketing with talent strategy
2. Use “performance-qualified” to target full talent market
3. Get personal: customize job-branded message
4. Capture: Intrinsic motivator – EVP – Do – Learn - Become
5. Learn to drive the bus create 30% opportunity gap
6. Design bigger apply button – easier to find, harder to push
7. Become Performance-based Hiring Certified
info@louadlergroup.com
Hello everyone! We are thrilled to introduce today’s webcast titled, “Effective Recruiting Strategies That Attract Extraordinary Talent”. Before we introduce today’s speakers, we would like to first go through some house keeping items.
Use the Job-Seeker’s Grid to Develop a Recruiting Strategy
Find out what the person needs to change jobs. Categorize the reasons into one of the four possible reasons in the grid.
Emphasize the upper right grid: what the person will DO and BECOME. Persist if person emphasizes going-away criteria or what he/she gets on Day 1. This is how good people wind up in the wrong job.
The Keys to Great Messaging
It needs to be found. It’s useless if no one sees it.
It needs to cause a useful action. You want people to respond somehow, but the best people in certain jobs are unlikely to formally apply. Make sure your application process is appropriate given the demographic and passive/active balance of the candidates you’re targeting.
To cause an action, it must meet the intrinsic motivating needs of your target audience. Segmentation is critical here. You must understand what the best people in your target group want to do, and make this perfectly clear in your ads.
Notes, Exercises, and Key Learning Points
You need to offer passive candidates at least a 30% increase to gain their interest. But it’s not all compensation!
The >30% solution (selling) is comprised of:
Job stretch – the difference between the current job and the new opportunity
Job growth – the difference in the rate of growth between the current and the new job
Total rewards – the increase in compensation, bonus, long-term incentives, etc.
Eliminating the negatives in the person’s current position
Tell candidates that this is the purpose of exploring the opportunity – to determine if it really represents a career move.
The more hurdles to overcome, like relocation, the bigger the “solution” needs to be.
Overcoming Objections
Don’t push too hard. Recruiting a top person requires a series of steps to close the deal.
Following are the typical steps from first call to close for a truly passive candidate. Before and after each step uncover needs and concerns.
Talk 5-10 minutes about the job
Conduct a 30-minute phone screen
Conduct an onsite exploratory interview with the hiring manager
Conduct a comprehensive interview onsite with the hiring team
Come back for a second round of interviews with a more senior executive, conduct a panel interview, and/or present the results of the case-study take-home project
Discuss the idea of being a finalist
Negotiate the broad parameters of an offer and discuss level of seriousness
Test all aspects of the offer before finalizing it
Get the candidate to accept all aspects of the offer before formally extending it
Most people take a few days to a few weeks to fully understand all aspects of the job. Guiding the candidate to the next step rather than the end-game will increase your end-to-end close rate.
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