Strategy, Tactics & Pitfalls

Polly Pearson, PrincipalPearson Advisory

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Building Your Employment Brand

STRATEGYThe Essential 21st Century

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#1: Be Real

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#2: Be Repeatable

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#3: Be Roving

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BUILD Relationships

TACTICSEasy to Implement

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RealAsk Your People (aka customers)

Recognize ThemesAlign & Emphasize | Market Desires

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Southwest AirlinesFacebook Photo

RepeatableStories Tell & Sell

Photo = 1000 WordsPeople are Social Animals

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Zappos Rock Wild Wellness FairFacebook Photo

RovingShare the Story: Mobile & Global

Leverage your People/Passions/Social CirclesBuild Social Media Proficiency

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RelationshipsConnection is a Two-Way Street

ListenEngage

EXAMPLESReal, Repeatable, Roving, and Relationship-Building

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Internal Photo Sharing

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Do you have an internal social network?

“REAL:” These photos are among the hundreds posted by employees globally to a “Day in the Life” photo sharing event. They made the brand personal.

Radio ShowDo you have an internal Webcast capability?

“REPEATABLE:” Radio is a story-telling platform. This example addedphotos of the guests in a slide-show experience and live interactivity via chat.

“100 Job Search Tips” eBook

eBook

“ROVING:” This e-book featured employees and went viral, providing great brand-reach and impressions. Named “Top 10 Job Search Book of the Year.”

Reality-Style “TV” Do you have an Intranet or Social Network? YouTube?

“REAL & REPEATABLE:” Short clips of leaders being “real,” sharing personal stories and perspectives, make the brand experience intimate and easy to re-tell.Post these on YouTube, and they become “ROVING” as well.

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Blogs

“REAL & REPEATABLE & ROVING:” Blogs tell stories. When written unfiltered by real employees, they become powerful, viral “reference-type” brand endorsements.

Tweets

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“REAL & REPEATABLE & ROVING:” Twitter is made to repeat a good story. Sent by real employees and real customers, your brand gets the powerful “reference sell.”

Tweets & Blogs Aggregated for SEO:“Why I work at _____”

“REAL & REPEATABLE & ROVING:” Combine real employee sentiments fromblogs and Twitter, and your brand gets SEO boost and message impressions.

Social Mass-Markets Your Brand

“Viral Fly Paper”

Share-worthy Photos

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YOURBRAND

YOURBRAND

YOURBRAND Sticky Stories

Search Magic

PITFALLSThe

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Unfounded

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Initiative-Driven vs. Values-DrivenMove your execs/company to a values

conversation or abandon ship.

Unfunded

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Subset of CompanySounds like Static to the Marketplace

Build an Alliance!

Fear sells, too: ROI = Risk of Ignoring

Untrue

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Not RealEmployees Told vs. Engaged

Include employees and SHOW they are welcome to participate. Build trust. No sticks.

Summary

Be RealBe RepeatableBe RovingBuild Relationships

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