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3 Ways to Sharpen Your Segmentation Skills for Better Talent CRM Recruiting Results
Those who have existing Talent CRM programs in place can attest that success is rooted in authentic and credible candidate communications, which require an in-depth understanding of one’s target audiences—often in the form of candidate personas—and the ability to personalize the experiences of your talent pool members.
3 Ways to Better Communicate Your Employer Brand and Stand Apart From the Crowd
The scramble for top talent is on. Job seekers are carefully looking for location flexibility, alignment with a company’s ethics, salary transparency and more across corporate career sites, in job descriptions and within the overall candidate experience and communications.
Candidate Personas: Your Path to Better Messaging
Candidate personas—borrowed from marketing’s highly successful use of “buyer” or “shopper” personas to drive consumer messaging—represent a picture of your target candidate based on a composite of common and desirable attributes.
How To: 5 Smart Steps to Gathering Content for Candidate Nurture Campaigns
One of the most common challenges talent acquisition teams face when launching—and especially maintaining—a Talent CRM program is finding fresh content that will appeal to their talent pool members and convert them to applicants. The result is that too many programs end up being little more than a series of regular email blasts about job openings that match the candidate’s field of interest.
How to Leverage Your TA Tech Stack for Better Employer Brand ROI: Part II
In the first part of this two-blog series, I discussed the importance of employer branding to recruiting and retention success and the significant investment that companies make to get it right. However, one of the challenges I’ve observed in recent years is that too many organizations fail to make sure that talent acquisition teams are leveraging their recruiting technology across four critical phases of the candidate journey.
How to Leverage Your TA Tech Stack for Better Employer Brand ROI: Part I
The attention to and investment in employer branding as part of an organization’s comprehensive strategy to attract and retain talent is essential to realizing recruiting success. According to LinkedIn, the vast majority of enterprise talent acquisition teams remain committed to their investment, too, as “63% of talent professionals expect their employer branding budget to increase or stay the same.”
Improve Career Website Success with These 3 Key Performance Metrics
Among the biggest benefits a career website content management system (CMS) affords is the ability for recruiters to act immediately on shifting hiring demands, whether that means adding content about a new office location to support the associated hiring push or developing a landing page that highlights a functional area that represents a critical talent need.
Corporate Career Websites and the Future of the Personalized Candidate Experience
From aggregators and social networking sites to online review platforms and mobile apps, job seekers have more channels than ever to identify and evaluate potential employers. Yet, even amid an increasing array of options, the corporate career website remains the most valued.