Presentation built for TalentNet Dallas at Capital One 11/2015
by Crystal Miller, Branded Strategies (agency) & Lauren Evans, Kiewit Corporation (client). Overview of the Kiewit College Recruiting Program challenges, changes and enhancements. Project started Q1 2015 and scheduled to finish in Q4 2016. As part of keeping an "Open Source" mentality for HR, if you would like any of the templates we used or information on metrics, tools or setting up a similar program in your own organization, please use the contact form below & we will gladly share!
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Today’s
Agenda
01 Project Discovery
02 Designing Blueprints
03 Laying Foundations
04
Constructing Candidate
Experience
05 Metrics, Measurements
& An Eye To The Future
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Meet the
Speakers
Employer Brand / Digital Strategy Leader | Strategist | Advisor | Speaker |
Practitioner Mom of 2 Teenagers | Writer | Lover of Wine & Fab Footwear
Fun Facts About Me | Which One’s Not True?
• I’ve been working with Employer Branding since before it was even called that!
• My daughters conned me into getting not 1, but 2 puppies in the last 2 months.
• Despite creating brand campaigns for this platform, I’m afraid of Snapchat.
- Crystal Miller -
CEO of Branded Strategies & Employer Brand Strategist
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Fun Facts About Me | Which One’s Not True?
Lauren Evans
University Relations Manager, Kiewit Energy Group
University Rec & Relations Leader | Engineer-Turned-HR-Pro | A&M Grad
• I’ve been a college professor.
• As an engineer, I’ve moved 34 tons of dirt
before lunch in one workday.
• I don’t use social media personally.
5. Kiewhat? Kiewit! We Are One Kiewit
As an employee-owned company, we work towards
one mission operating on the same 4 values of:
people first, integrity, excellence and stewardship.
Strong Corporate Reputation
130 years of strong performance allows Kiewit to enjoy a
sterling business reputation.
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Generalizations of Graduates Today
Not looking
for any job
they can get
Not
FREAKING
OUT
about what
to do next
Have greater
salary
expectations
Expects
Recruiter
to know what
they WANT
to know
7. The College Recruiting Game is Changing
More Expensive
The median acquisition cost for a new
college graduate is up by over 10% in
last 5 years ($430/hire).
More Details
College recruits demand more
information about how orgs will
develop & progress them.
More Creativity
Cost of average college
recruitment campaign is
up over 42% in last 5 years.
More Social
Over 52% increase in
graduate use of social in
college recruitment.
More Wired
College students are relying more on
digital & social media to make decisions,
increasing digital marketing costs.
Less Sharing
With graduate shortages in many
fields, orgs are sharing less
information on best practices.
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Getting the
Project ”We had a good University
Recruiting foundation that
needed enhancements.”
• 72% of incoming college students chose their school by
researching their prospective colleges on a social media site
• Voracious in desire for immediate info, w/ sophisticated
behavioral approaches to filtering it, no matter how many
sources it comes from (Gillen, 2007).
Reaching the “Wired Generation”
9. Kiewit’s Doing
Good Things
Women's Construction
Leadership Seminar
Our team chooses 51 top construction
and engineering students out of 147
applicants from universities across the
U.S. and Canada to participate in this
seminar & networking event.
Building Construction’s Future
Kiewit’s Building Construction Futures program
encourages youth, young adults, retiring veterans, the
unemployed and the underemployed to consider
career opportunities in construction trades.
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Constructing a Successful Candidate
BluePrint
Meet Emily
Engineering Student
Emily is a year or two from
graduation and considering
internships. Here’s what Emily will
need to be successful at Kiewit:
Skills Experience “Big Rocks”
•Strong Work Ethic
•Attention to Detail
•Intense Curiosity
•Strong
Communication
•Pursuing a degree
in construction
engineering,
construction
management, civil
engineering or
related degree
• Understand job
requires national
moves, not regional
• Previous Leadership
• Knows their Why
• Several moves over
career, not just a few
11. One Kiewit, Many College
Recruiting Challenges
Program Challenges
• We weren’t taking a “One Kiewit” approach
• We needed baseline evals and performance metrics
• University Recruiting (UREC) wasn’t enough
Internal Challenges
• We weren’t sharing knowledge across Kiewit Districts
• Employees were sending mixed & inconsistent messages to
candidates & faculty
External Challenges
• Students, Faculty & College Programs were confused by
inconsistent messaging
• Poor Alumni engagement and utilization of resources
12. Initial Audit
01 New Metrics Reporting
Using Tableau and our analytics department, we
can better track performance of both university
recruiters and campuses with which we spend
time and money.
02
New Faculty Relations Program*
To help improve faculty referrals and
Kiewit name recognition, established a
faculty resource portal & education
program.
03
New Campus Recruiting Process*
In process of creating tiered campus program to
improve efficiency of man-hours spent on tier 2
and 3 campuses, with greater focus on online
events for tiers 2 and 3.
13. HROS Blueprint:
Conducting the Audit
1Your Stuff
02Their Stuff
03Messaging
04Schools
05SWoT
• Online Presence
• Social Media Presence
• Recruitment & Hiring
Process
• Rewards, Recognition,
Compensation
• Employees - Current &
Alumni
• Measure efficacy of
messaging around
importance of your
mission
• How “real” is the
company culture talk?
• What are the benefits
you talk about?
• UX - User Experience
• University Relations
• Process Performance
to Plan
• Online Presence
• Job Ads
• Application Process
• Competitor 1
• Competitor 2
• Competitor 3
• Professors
• Career Center
• Counselors
• Events
• Alumni
14. T
• Requires buy-in from
district leaders
• More accountability
from college recruiting
team
• Significant man-hours to
set up
• Needs campus buy-in
O
• Engage Faculty in the
recruitment process
• Save man-hours and
resources
• Improve efficacy of
contributions
W
• Heavy reliance on
established reputation
• Not enough attraction
messaging
• Weak online presence
• No social or SEO/SEM
strategies
S
• Solid Offline Reputation
• Past 5 years, tenure was
10x industry average
• Employee owned
• Visually appealing
career site
SWOT Analysis
Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat
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Metrics
to Track
•Goals Met
•Online College & Graduate
Sentiment
•Head-to-Head (HTH) Hire Rate
•Shareholder Satisfaction
•Intern Conversion Rate
•Top Schools Percentage
•Applicant Quality
(GQoA)
•Performance Data
•Training Failure Rate
•Percentage to Plan
•College Hire Diversity
•College Hire Retention
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Future
Focused
2016
RoadmapKiewit UREC
Online
More Metrics
Promotion
Digital Strategy
Event Strategy
Training
Strategy
Faculty Portal
Campaign
Development
Tech Stack
As we refine our strategy and execute on our tactical implementation plans, we will continue
to share templates and outcomes as part of the #HROS project.
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Thanks for The Attention
Don’t hesitate to contact us
cm@brandedstrategies.com lauren.evans@kiewit.com @TheOneCrystal @Kiewit
Notas do Editor
Which one’s not true? My daughters actually did not con me into getting 2 puppies… it was kind of my idea. Disclosures: I have served as an advisor and/or worked in a marketing capacity with multiple tech companies. Currently I have relationships with Elevated Careers by eHarmony and Universum.
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Additional factors you need to consider specific to the college candidate expereince
Current “industry standard” metrics to track are woefully inadequate. Many companies only track the above metrics, Kiewit was only tracking the metric in yellow.
While there are still other metrics that aren’t represented here, these are the top 12 metrics tracked to pick key schools for program investment and contributions, justify intern growth programs, and develop performance models.
Goals met = Are you meeting your program goals? What % of goals are you meeting and for the goals you aren’t meeting, track what’s lacking and monitor progress from spring recruiting season to fall.
Online College & Graduate Sentiment = tools like Iris (Universum’s SaaS program for Brand Monitoring) and Mention are great technology options to help you track online sentiment.
HTH = when graduates are getting more than one offer (which you have to assume is a probability upon graduation), what percentage of those graduates are accept your offer over the “Head to head” competition?
Shareholder Satisfaction = internal stakeholder/program shareholder satisfaction with the results of your program
Intern Conversion Rate = what percentage of college interns ultimately come back to work for your organization after graduation? Track % offered vs total intern number AND track interns offered permanent role vs % accepted.
Top Schools Percentage = Of the schools your program has identified as their “top schools” for finding graduate talent, what % of your hires do each yield?
GQoA = this look into applicant quality focuses on the % of your college recruitment programs APPLICANTS (not hires) that meet minimum expectation criteria.
Performance Data = what percentage of your college hires are performing to 1) plan, 2) in the top 50%, and 3) identified for leadership development?
Training Failure Rate = Track the number of college graduate hires that “wash out” or are not making it successfully through the training program / probationary period. This includes those moved to other positions in the company, not just attrition rate.
Percentage to Plan = This tracks hiring progress as a result of your college recruitment program throughout the year against the total # of hires outlined in your annual workforce plan.
College Hire Diversity = Tracks diversity metrics across college talent attraction & recruitment program.
College Hire Retention = Tracks % of regrettable turnover and attrition of college hires.
Kiewit UREC Online is a university co-branded online student learning & engagement portal that’s being developed as part of our move to reduce man-hours spent on tier 2 and 3 schools while increasing awareness and Kiewit presence at more university programs overall.
Faculty Portal will offer professors resources such as learning & educational materials, lesson plans, information on career pathways at Kiewit and more!
Tech Stack: for 2016, we are evaluating the addition of Elevated Careers by eHarmony specifically to help with college “culture fit,” Zoomforth to help with campus-specific landing pages that contain employee generated content and Great Hires to our existing technology stack. We are also evaluating Koru as a possible preview to our internship program.