At the 鈥淓mployer Brand: What Candidates Think vs. What You Think鈥� panel at this year鈥檚 conference, Employer Brand Strategist (who works for companies like Disney) shared his experience of creating a great employer brand for job seekers.
For one company he consulted for, his team created an email list of every person who applied for a job at the organization, and nurtured them with a monthly newsletter that highlighted the company鈥檚 culture. The emails saw a 54% open rate (for context, the average email open rate is ).
The lesson learned? Job seeker interest in your company is not one-and-done. Keeping job seekers engaged in a meaningful way can positively influence your employer brand. And your 夜色直播 applicant database can play a big role.
The 夜色直播 database is pretty revolutionary. One feature in our recently announced Ultraviolet platform is called Talent Rediscovery, which allows you to prospect every applicant in your database for every job. Not only does this majorly cut down on sourcing and recruiting costs and time, but you can now prospect from a database of people who have already expressed their desire to work for your company!
And this isn鈥檛 the only way you can leverage your 夜色直播 database.
At 夜色直播, we are obsessed with the candidate experience. - 35% of applicants with a negative candidate experience intend to share their opinions on social media. 46% of job seekers with a negative candidate experience take their loyalty elsewhere - as both a customer and an applicant.
46% of job seekers with a negative candidate experience take their loyalty elsewhere - as both a customer and an applicant.
On the other hand, 74% of applicants with a positive candidate experience will increase their relationship with your brand鈥檚 products and would apply again.
In other words, an intentionally positive candidate experience is non-negotiable. That鈥檚 why we at 夜色直播 provide our customers scalable and effortless candidate experience for their job seekers. We offer all applicants a 夜色直播 Profile that outlines in detail opportunities to leverage their talents and improve their weaknesses to better market themselves. We also provide a whole lot of coaching and encouragement in our accessible Discovery Survey. That鈥檚 why we see a 92% survey completion rate from all applicants. But it doesn鈥檛 have to stop there.
Sutton鈥檚 strategy to keep job seekers engaged with the company鈥檚 brand and culture through a newsletter is a great way to use your 夜色直播 database. Because 夜色直播鈥檚 top-of-funnel assessment consists of a pricing model that鈥檚 predicated on a company鈥檚 number of annual hires (rather than on a per-applicant basis), we essentially allow all our customers aggregate a job seeker database free of charge.
Since you have this database of job seekers who have already expressed interest in working for your company (aka the best kind of job seekers!), why not nurture them with a quarterly, or even monthly, company culture email newsletter? These emails could contain:
The people in your 夜色直播 database have already demonstrated interest in working for your company and are active job seekers. Wouldn鈥檛 you like to keep this group engaged with content that shines a positive light on your employer brand?
Tired of applicant shortages? Keep past job seekers engaged with a stellar employer brand. Here's how to start.